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| How To Prevent A United Situation At Your Station, Why These Two Millenials Love Working in Radio |
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| Radio Headlines For Friday 4-14-2017 |
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Mike Tarter. One of Radio’s Top 20 Leaders  It's a small club but it includes 20 of the best people in radio. On Monday, Radio Ink's newest list will be unveiled -- The 20 Best Leaders in Radio. This list was chosen by the radio industry. In an extremely exciting and close vote, that included about 50 people when we first started, thousands of votes were cast on our website to help decide the final 20 names that will appear in Radio Ink Magazine next week. Forcht CEO Mike Tarter is one of those 20 leaders. [read more] |
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How To Prevent A United Situation At Your Station  (By Deborah Parenti) As bad as Sunday’s United incident was, the public handling of the situation has continued to compound it even further in what appears to be one bungled, weak attempt to quell one storm after another. While the first line of defense is to have a set of company policies in place designed to prevent or minimize the chance of such disastrous instances occurring to begin with, sometimes even the best efforts fail and bad situations happen. [read more] |
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Why These Two Millenials Love Working in Radio  Radio Ink is on a mission to debunk the theory that Millennials do not want to work in radio. Phylicia Cahill and Amanda Latorraca are both 29 years old, and work for Connoisseur in Connecticut. Phylicia got her start in radio as an intern and moved into sales. Amanda started in Television and made the switch to radio. Here's what they say about working in the radio industry. [read more] |
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Slacker Lays Off 25% Of Workforce…Or Was It 50%?  Digital Music News cites a statement it was given by CEO Duncan Orrell-Jones that one-quarter of Slacker's employees have been let go. The website originally reported that 50% of Slacker's employees were being fired, after it received an anonymous e-mail from an employee that said... [read more] |
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Who Are The Most Influential Women In Radio?  Since 1999, Radio Ink's Most Influential Women in Radio list has reflected the significant progress made in the growth and opportunities of and by women in the industry. Hard earned? Absolutely. Enough? In many areas, still no. But what is impressive is that a list of 10 eighteen years ago topped 100 in 2016. [read more] |
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Berner Promotes McVay, Milner, And Walker  Cumulus CEO Mary Berner has given Executive VP stripes to Mike McVay, Dave Milner, and Bob Walker. Berner said, “Mike, Dave, and Bob are terrific executives and have each been instrumental to the success we’ve achieved during the first year of executing our turnaround plan for the company.” [read more] |
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T-Mobile Is The 2017 Radio Marketer Of The Year  That news comes from the Radio Advertising Bureau. T-Mobile will receive this year's “Radio Marketer of the Year” award due to the company using radio as a key component in their advertising campaigns. T-Mobile will be honored with the award at the 2017 Radio Mercury Awards on June 1 at Stage 48, New York City. [read more] |
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Here Are Your Radio Service to America Winners  The National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation has announced the winners of the 2017 Celebration of Service to America Awards. These awards recognize outstanding community service by local broadcasters. Radio winners included WEDR-FM in Hollywood and K-Love in San Antonio. [read more] |
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New York State Hands Out Awards in Excellence  Among the 2017 winners were WEPN (ESPN), WCBS-AM in New York City, WPXY in Albany, WXXI in Rochester, WHCU in Ithaca, and WSKG in Vestal. For a full listing of the winners GO HERE. This is the 51st year the New York State Broadcasters Association has given out the awards. [read more] |
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Country Hall Dinner Tables Available  The Country Radio Broadcasters announced that Country Radio Hall of Fame Induction Dinner and Awards ceremony tables are now available for purchase. The June 21 event is being held at The Nashville Marriott. [read more] |
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Ryan Wrecker Gets KMOX Overnight Slot  In February, Jon Grayson resigned from the Overnight America show on KMOX in St. Louis. On Thursday, the station hired Ryan Wrecker to take over that shift. Wrecker moves to St. Louis from Fort Wayne, where he most recently served as PD for WOWO-AM. He's also been a regular writer for Radio Ink Magazine with a focus on digital. [read more] |
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More Work For Rebecca Kaplan  Rebecca Kaplan gets the newly created position of Marketing Director for Cumulus' seven station cluster in Dallas. She keeps her position as Promotions Director for New Country 96.3 (KSCS) and 99.5 The Wolf (KPLX). Prior to joining Cumulus, Kaplan was Promotions Director for iHeartMedia in Tampa. [read more] |
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MPR To Honor Founder  Minnesota Public Radio will rename its Saint Paul headquarters and broadcast facilities the Kling Public Media Center, after its visionary founder, William H. Kling. The MPR Board of Trustees made the decision but decided to wait until the occasion of the organization’s 50th anniversary to officially make the designation. [read more] |
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TM Launches New Product  Jingle company TM STUDIOS announces a new product line created for six radio formats. TM EVO is a customizable, interactive jingle service, allowing programmers to create their own unique sound in real-time. It's available for six formats; CHR, AC, Country, Hot AC, Hot Country and Classic Hits. [read more] |
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SEND US YOUR NEWS  Does your company or station have a news item you'd like us to run in our morning headlines? Do you have a news tip we need to investigate? Is someone being promoted at your station you'd like to recognize? Send all the details to Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan at edryantheeditor@gmail.com [read more] |
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The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, located in Canada, owns 43 radio stations. Thursday the company announced it was partnering with SoCast to centralize digital operations for all of its radio stations.
Thanks to Will Fuller for sending in this "Blast From The Past." This is Bob "Doc" Fuller from 1966 at WLOB in Portland, Maine, when it was owned by Ralph Guild. Fuller and JJ Jeffrey now own the station. Send us YOUR classic photo to
