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| The Francesa, Kay Battle Rages On, How Much Money Are Salespeople Making? |
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| Radio Headlines For Thursday 07-11-19 |
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 Nielsen tracking shows radio reaches 92 percent of U.S. adults 18+, every week. Roger Rafson, SVP Political/Issue Advocacy & Strategic Alliances for Gen Media Partners, tells Radio Ink it's the reachability and targetability of radio that has advertising-dollar decision-makers looking forward to this political season. [read more] |
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 Nielsen released New York City ratings on Wednesday and in the battle for afternoon sports talk supremacy, WFAN's Mike Francesa and ESPN's Michael Kay are both number one. It's complicated. [read more] |
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 Media Staffing Network and Radio Ink have teamed up to gather data for a Radio Sales Compensation Study that will be released at the Radio Show in Dallas this September. We need your confidential input. [read more] |
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 Joe Paulo's KSBJ Educational Foundation is purchasing KSHN-FM in Liberty, Texas from Bill Buchanan's Trinity River Valley Broadcasting. The format on KSHN is "Music Mixed With Things That Matter." [read more] |
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 Award-winning morning show personality Lisa Mason has passed away due to health complications. Mason was a longtime Birmingham radio veteran and spent over 17 years as an on-air personality on WBPT-FM 106.9 The Eagle. [read more] |
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 For the past 10 years, Denene McNiece has served as Entercom’s General Sales Manager for its Indianapolis cluster. One of those stations, WZPL, was consistently the number one billing radio station in Indianapolis during her tenure. [read more] |
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 Since the fall of 2018, KISS 108’s Matt Siegel has been hosting "An Evening With Matty in The Morning" at The Wilbur Theater in Boston. He has now sold out his ninth show. [read more] |
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 From July 15 through July 28, listeners nationwide can vote for their favorite radio personalities in two categories to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame this November. The nominees are... [read more] |
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 The new service comes from Nielsen Scarborough and launches with iHeartMedia, Westwood One, Cadence13, Cabana, and Stitcher as early clients. [read more] |
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 Baltimore's WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5 earned the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association first-place award for Outstanding Spot News for its coverage of the Capital Gazette shootings in Annapolis in June of 2018. [read more] |
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 Cox Media Group has selected the aiWARE-powered Veritone Essentials suite of applications to use across its 60+ radio stations in 11 markets. [read more] |
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 SiriusXM Select subscribers now join SiriusXM All Access, SiriusXM Essential Streaming, and SiriusXM Premier Streaming subscribers with unlimited access to SiriusXM channels, at no additional cost, outside the car on a phone, at home, and online. [read more] |
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 CBS News is offering a one-hour Apollo 11 special, “One Giant Leap Revisited,” beginning Thursday, July 11, to run ahead of Apollo’s July 16 launch anniversary and through July 20, which marks the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. [read more] |
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 Longtime Atlanta radio personality Axel Lowe is the new PD for Cumulus Atlanta’s Rock 100.5. Lowe heads home to Atlanta from Cincinnati where he was PD and PM Drive on-air personality for WFTK/96 Rock. [read more] |
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 Veteran morning radio host Brian Pierce (Cozadd) is hanging up the headphones after 45 years in radio. His last day will be July 26 with his final morning show on WUSW-FM and his final talk show (10a-12n) on WMAY-AM, both in Springfield, IL. [read more] |
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 Radio One Richmond, VA, has signed on-air personality DJ Sir RJ to take over nights on WCDX – iPower 92.1FM/104.1FM. Also known as Richie Savage, DJ Sir RJ makes the move from Entercom Richmond. [read more] |
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 Accounting firm Miller Kaplan has named Steve Scadden its new Director of Media Services. Scadden is a seasoned sales executive with 27 years of experience in the media industry. [read more] |
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 Stephens Media Group has named Josh Venable to be the new Program Director of KTSO/Tulsa. Venable will continue his PD and morning show duties on KMYZ. He started his radio career in Dallas in 1993 [read more] |
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