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| Who Are Radio’s Best Leaders?, Warner Wolf Files Lawsuit Against Imus |
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| Radio Headlines For Friday 2-16-2018 |
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 Earlier this week Bryan Hollenbaugh and his wife purchased Classic Hits WMJZ-FM in Gaylord, Michigan for $750,000. The previous owners took a $25,000 deposit from the husband and wife team because they know the Hollenbaugh's were serious local broadcasters and will take good care of their signal, and the community. Here's Bryan's story... [read more] |
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 You know them. You are working for them now! These are the people who know how to motivate their teams to success, and your team to success. They are winning at sales, programming, and management. They are relentless in what they do, and they do not fail. This is the second year for this new and very popular Radio Ink list. [read more] |
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 The 80 year old sportscaster, who was fired by Imus back in December, says in the suit that Imus routinely cracked "inappropriate" jokes about his age, such as "time to put Wolf out to pasture" and "shoot him with an elephant dart gun." Now Wolf has filed a lawsuit against his former friend. [read more] |
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 This isn't something we see often. One company with a cluster, selling one of their very successful stations to a competitor, who also has a cluster in the same market. Ed Levine's Galaxy Communications is selling WOUR to Townsquare in Utica, New York, for $3.9 million. [read more] |
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 On Thursday, Univision reported total radio revenue of $79 million for the fourth quarter of 2017. That's an increase of 8.5% over 2016. However, advertising revenue for the radio segment decreased 5.5% to $63.4 million from $67.1 in Q4. [read more] |
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 iHeartMedia has named Lindsay Lazar GSM at "BIG 95.5" (Country/WEBG) and "93.9 LITE FM" (80s and 90s/WLIT) in Chicago. The 20-year vet moves to iHeart from the Entercom/CBS Chicago cluster where she was Sales Manager. She's also held sales and account management positions at Total Traffic and Weather Network, and Premiere Networks. [read more] |
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 Cox Media Group Tampa has promoted Bryan Kelly to D.O.S. Bryan spent the past two years as GSM at CMG Tampa before being promoted. Kelly has also worked in sales management in Sarasota and West Palm. The D.O.S. vacancy was created when Jason Meder was promoted to GM in Orlando in December. CMG has six stations in the Tampa market. [read more] |
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 Cox Media Group Tulsa Market Vice President Cathy Gunther announced on Thursday that Nate Reed has been named Operations Manager for that market. Reed moves into the job from his position as Director of Branding and Programming at CMG Tulsa’s Hot AC KRAV/Mix 96.5. [read more] |
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 Ryan Maguire is the new PD for Bonneville's powerhouse News/Talker KIRO Radio in Seattle. Maguire has spent many years in the sports format and makes the move to Seattle from Entercom's WQAM in Miami where he's been PD since 2015. KIRO has been without a PD since Pete Gammell left the station in December. [read more] |
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 Starting soon, Alisa Chang will host All Things Considered along with Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro; and Noel King will join David Greene, Steve Inskeep, and Rachel Martin as the fourth host of Morning Edition and the Up First podcast. King and Chang will continue their enterprise reporting on Planet Money. [read more] |
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 Country 98.9 (KNUC/Seattle) has a new morning show beginning soon. Award-winning morning team Tim Leary, Claire Beverly, and Karen (Red) Daiss, from Savannah, GA, are headed to the Pacific Northwest. The trio have been together for three years. [read more] |
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 Former on-air personality and radio executive Johnny Andrews died Thursday after a difficult battle with cancer. Andrews had a very long and successful career on the air and as a programmer and manager of many successful stations. [read more] |
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 In a new partnership announced this week, AXS–TV and KMG Networks, a division of Krantz Media Group, will bring The Big Interview with Dan Rather to stations throughout the U.S. Ad sales will be handled by Westwood One. [read more] |
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 The agreement includes broadcasting rights of University of Miami Hurricanes baseball and ancillary baseball programming on Entercom’s AM 790 The Ticket (WAXY-AM) in Miami beginning with the 2018 season. [read more] |
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 They loved it the first time, so here come the seconds. Philadelphia Eagles fans will be treated to a reprise of their team’s historic maiden Super Bowl win with a rebroadcast of the game on Philly’s SportsRadio 94WIP (94.1 FM). [read more] |
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 The Kim Komando Show is back in Baltimore on Talk Radio 680 WCBM Sunday evenings starting March 4. Her "Consumer Tech Update" will be heard during morning drive at 7:10 a.m., keeping Baltimore up to date each day on all things tech. [read more] |
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 In 2018, RadioInk.com will be publishing weekly advertiser success stories. Advertisers that use radio to drive customers to their stores and dollars to their cash registers. Take a look at the roster of success stories we've compiled so far HERE. [read more] |
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Don't Miss Any News This AfternoonMake sure you're registered for RBR+TVBR's daily newsletter, which delivers radio and TV business news every afternoon. Today Editor-in-Chief Adam Jacobson brings you the latest news from the FCC and Capitol Hill as it impacts your business. He also offers more advice from Ken Bennett on how to avoid another FCC fine. Make sure you're receiving the RBR+TVBR daily headlines by subscribing HERE. |
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 This classic is from 1978. It's our friend Fred LeFebvre at WKKI-FM in Celina, Oh. Fred now hosts mornings for iHeart's WSPD-AM in Toledo and can be reached at Fred@wspd.com." Send your classic studio shot -- cart machines and all -- to edryantheeditor@gmail.com. [read more] |
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