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| Carton Trial Begins, Entercom Cancels Hugely Successful Promotion |
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| Radio Headlines For Wednesday 10-31-18 |
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 In this day and age, sitting in your office shuffling papers will not cut it if you want to be a successful leader. Just ask Brian Lang, Regional Market President for Townsquare Media, who's one of Radio Ink's Best Managers for 2018. [read more] |
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 The former WFAN morning show co-host is on trial for allegedly swindling investors out of millions of dollars in a ticket resale business, in part, to pay his gambling debts. [read more] |
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 What do you do when your station promotion attracts 20,000 attendees, generates incredible buzz and brings in serious revenue? You cancel it, of course. Here's why Entercom ending the event was exactly the right thing to do. [read more] |
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 Steve Lubetkin is an award-winning multimedia journalist and veteran PR counselor. He currently serves as the New Jersey and Pennsylvania editor for GlobeStreet.com and produces news content for NJSpotlight.com. He's the co-author of The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional. [read more] |
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 Saga Communications has entered into an agreement to purchase WOGK(FM), WNDT(FM), WNDD(FM), and WNDN(FM) from Ocala Broadcasting Corporation. All the stations serve the Gainesville-Ocala, Florida, radio market. The price was just over $9 million. [read more] |
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 Emmy Award-winning “Voice of the Yankees” and drive-time host on ESPN NY 98.7 FM Radio, Michael Kay, will become the first Fordham University alumnus to receive the Vin Scully Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting from the university's WFUV Radio. [read more] |
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 Can Netflix become HBO before HBO becomes Netflix? And can radio survive without passion? Tom Asacker and media strategist Mark Ramsey will discuss. [read more] |
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 (By Ronald Robinson) What is it going to take to, primarily, get radio back on the rails? An abrupt, industry-wide crash might be motivating. [read more] |
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 Country station 101.7 The Bull in Boston raised $123,000 to benefit St. Jude Children's Hospital with help from Lady Antebellum. An Intimate Evening with Lady Antebellum, an exclusive fundraising event at the Chevalier Theatre, featured a 1-hour acoustic concert from the group with all proceeds given to St. Jude. [read more] |
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 Detroit’s Oldies 94.7 HD2 will transform into 24/7 Christmas music, beginning at midnight on Thursday, November 1. The first song that will be played on the air will be the holiday classic “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot like Christmas” by Johnny Mathis. [read more] |
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 This month, the American Urban Radio Networks and the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce met with representatives from the Hetrick-Martin Institute to present a $10,000 donation for the HMI After-School Youth Center. [read more] |
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 Rob Rush is the new PD and Brian Orlando the new APD for Connoisseur's WWSK/Long Island, NY (94.3 The Shark). Rush has been with the 94.3 FM frequency since December of 2003 and has served as Music Director for The Shark since August of 2017. Orlando, The Shark’s current morning show host, is taking on the additional responsibilities as Assistant Program Director. [read more] |
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 After 13 years as PD and afternoon drive host at WXLC in Northern Chicago, Haynes Johns and Alpha Media have parted ways. Before WXLC, Johns was with WNND in Columbus for six years as APD/MD and afternoon drive host. He's also worked in Cincinnati, Dayton, and Jackson, MS. [read more] |
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 ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 Podcasts has returned for a fourth season with five new audio documentaries. The first three episodes are now all live. "Six Who Sat,” about female endurance athletes who staged a sit-down strike for 10 minutes at the 1972 New York City Marathon, was released Tuesday, Oct. 30. [read more] |
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 Are you hearing things about your market? Let us investigate. Radio Ink Magazine is the only 26-year-old trade magazine in the radio industry. That's the result of a lot of trust over those years. Send all news tips in total confidence, and any other station news to Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan at edryantheeditor@gmail.com [read more] |
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 In 2018, RadioInk.com has been publishing advertiser success stories every Monday morning. We've found great local advertisers that are using radio to drive customers to their stores and dollars to their cash registers. We want to publicize your greatest advertiser success story of the year. [read more] |
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 At Forecast 2019‘s Prospects for Radio as an Investment in 2019: The Real Street Talk panel, Randy Michaels, who has seen both sides of the investment game, moderates a panel of financial advisors and analysts in a candid discussion of who's investing and where. Wall Street’s opinion affects every player; this is a session no broadcaster can afford to miss. [read more] |
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