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| Red Sox Concerned With Direction of WEEI, Cumulus Employees…Bonuses Are Coming |
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| Radio Headlines For Thursday 2-15-2018 |
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 When do radio's on-air hosts go too far? When advertisers start to cancel is certainly a red flag. Every dollar is precious these days and when advertisers start to distance themselves from a station or host, that is never a good thing. In the wake of two recent employee suspensions for insensitive comments, WEEI will be holding sensitivity training for all of its employees Friday. [read more] |
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 Advertisers are not the only group upset with the sports station. WEEI carries Boston Red Sox games through the 2023 season. And that gives the team every right to express their “frustration and disappointment” with Entercom, according to president and CEO Sam Kennedy. [read more] |
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 We are told that, even though The Trustee did in fact object to all bonuses Cumulus plans to pay out, the court has already approved the bonuses for the majority of the employees, and those will be paid out as scheduled. The remaining bonuses, which involve high-level executives will be addressed by the court on March 12. [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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 Add Public Broadcaster KUOW to the growing list of stations now unionized under SAG-AFTRA, which now represents about 160,000 members, including National Public Radio, WNYC in New York and WBEZ in Chicago. [read more] |
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 WGN Radio AM 720 is the team’s new flagship radio station. Broadcasts will begin with the first game of the 2018 Cactus League (Spring Training) on Friday, February 23 at 2:05 p.m. CT. The agreement includes all 162 White Sox regular season and postseason games, as well as select Spring Training games. [read more] |
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 WPRT-FM ESPN 102.5 The Game and the Nashville Predators have signed a three-year extension through 2021, securing The Game as the official flagship station and broadcast partner of the Nashville Predators Radio Network. [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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 (By Barry Cohen) If I had a big enough stop sign, I would project it across the U.S. so every radio station sales manager could see it. Why, you ask? Because I would tell each and every one of them to stop competing with other radio stations in town. [read more] |
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 Local Radio Networks has signed with ABC News Radio to bring ABC’s award-winning service exclusively to LRN affiliates. LRN affiliates will have access to the worldwide resources of ABC News and ABC News Radio. [read more] |
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 The Inside Edition personality will host the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s 2018 Golden Mike Award. The black-tie fundraiser will honor Emily Barr, President and Chief Executive Officer of Graham Media, and will take place on Monday, March 5, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. [read more] |
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 John Patrick has joined Steve Smith and Mary Liz Nolan as a co-anchor of the morning show, 5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., on WGAC (95.1FM/AM 580) in Augusta, GA. He began his new position on February 13. Patrick most recently served as the host of Buzz on Buzz at WRDW-AM in Augusta. [read more] |
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 Cumulus Media’s WIOV-FM/I-105 in Lancaster, PA, announced the passing of longtime morning show host Jerry Murphy, Wednesday, at age 61. Murphy was known as “Murph” of the Murph & Casey Morning Show on I-105. He hosted the show with Casey Allyn for 19 years. [read more] |
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 Valentine is the new Program Director for WBHT 97.1/95.7, Cumulus’ Top 40 station in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Valentine is a 22-year radio veteran who most recently spent five years as the on-air Assistant Program Director and Music Director at iHeartMedia’s Y100 in Miami. He will also be on-air host for middays on WBHT, weekdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. [read more] |
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 Mid-West Family Broadcasting South Bend General Manager Jim Roberts has accepted the position of National Account Manager at Futuri Media. Jim has been with the South Bend stations, including WNSN-FM, WZOC-FM, WQLQ-FM, and WSBT-AM, and FM translator on 96.1, since 1996. [read more] |
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 (By Ronald Robinson) It can’t be denied: Radio surely had one hell of a run. Even in the days when radio was third in the Print/TV/Radio hierarchy, there was money to be made – lots of money. I was working for a TV/AM/FM combo that sported the finest of facilities, and where my AMer alone was raking in $5 million a year — in late-‘70s dollars! [read more] |
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 Aaron Leiker's new company 25-7 Media is purchasing KLMR AM &FM in Lamar, Colorado, and KBLJ-AM and KTHN-FM in La Junta, Colorado, from Cherry Creek Radio. It's Leiker's first foray into ownership, although he's been hooked on radio since he was a freshman in high school. We wanted to know why this 35-year-old jumped into radio ownership, when all we hear about these days is how younger people are only interested in digital. So we asked him. [read more] |
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