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| How Heather Birks is Making The Future of Radio Stronger, Home Depots Tops 110,000 Radio Spots |
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| Radio Headlines For Tuesday 6-13-2017 |
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 New employment agreements for four Beasleys were filed in an 8K Monday. All the deals are retroactive to January 1, 2017 and run through 2019. The man who founded the company, George Beasley, who is still the Chairman of the board, will be paid $750,000. CEO Caroline Beasley will make $750,000, President Bruce Beasley will make $550,000, and Chief Operating Officer Brian Beasley will also make $550,000. All are eligible for bonuses and restricted stock. [read more] |
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 Heather Birks started working for the Broadcast Education Association in 2006, after working for the NAB for four years and NABEF for six. BEA is an academic media organization for educators, students, and professionals. BEA hired Birks, because in the six years she worked at NABEF, she helped build, manage and produce the Service to America Awards, and helped launch and run the Broadcast Leadership Training Program. [read more] |
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 Two weeks ago, The Home Depot ran just over 100,000 spots on radio. That number continues to grow. According to Media Monitors, The Home Depot aired 110,590 commercials on radio stations all over the country last week, easily holding on to the top spot. [read more] |
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 In Q1 newspaper revenue dropped 3.8% to $5.85 billion from $6.08 billion in the first quarter of 2016. And while digital is up for newspaper industry, it is not able to offset other revenue declines. [read more] |
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 WNYQ-FM host Tim Celeste was one of 12 men charged with trying to have sex with kids. Newschannel 13 reports authorities say the 12 men all wanted to have sex with girls between 9 and 14 years old. WNYQ is owned by Adirondack Broadcasting in Queensbury, New York. Celeste's bio is no longer on the station website. [read more] |
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 Who are the "best of the best" at your station? And isn't it time to honor them? Isn't it time to congratulate the sales rep who just brought in that shiny new account? The interactive seller who scored new revenue for your station with a digital platform campaign? Or the manager who always has an idea, an encouraging word, and inside support for every player on staff? [read more] |
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 The Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio Group has announced Denyse Mesnik as its new spokeswoman. Mesnik succeeds Kay Olin, who held the position since 2014 and will continue serving as a member of the MIW Executive Committee. [read more] |
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 Dustin Fletcher has been named Director of Alternative Rock Programming for iHeartMedia’s St. Louis Region as well as the PD for ALT 106.3 in Des Moines. He'll continue to serve as the PD for ALT 104.9, St. Louis’ Alternative Rock. [read more] |
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 Word of another promotion from Impact Radio Group. James Garner has received the nod to be the new Program Director for the group’s Hot AC KZMG (My102.7) in addition to his duties as PD for flagship KSRV (BOB-FM). Garner joined Impact Radio Group in July of 2007 serving as the company’s Production Director. [read more] |
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 The Boise station has promoted Curtis Booker. He joined Impact Radio Group in January of 2016 as the evening host of WILD 101 and PD for Impact’s Hot AC KZMG. Booker moved from Wild’s on-air slot to take over afternoon drive on KZMG last fall [read more] |
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 The President of Jacobs Media Strategies will present “Podcasting & Radio: What We Learned From Techsurvey13” on Thursday, June 15 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. Fred will take a deep dive into Techsurvey13, the radio industry’s largest online survey, to see how podcasting is impacting radio listeners. [read more] |
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 The monster event took place at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on Friday and Saturday, June 9-10, and featured performances by DJ Khaled, Halsey, Miley Cyrus, Backstreet Boys, Fifth Harmony, Noah Cyrus, Tinashe and Luis Fonsi. The event was hosted by DJ Khaled, Nick Cannon and Emily Sears [read more] |
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 That question will be answered on July 24 when Radio Ink releases its biggest, most popular issue of the year. Can iHeartMedia's Bob Pittman hold on to the number one spot? What about Cumulus CEO Mary Berner? After two years running the show, how will she rank? And, Entercom's David Field and Beasley's Caroline Beasley had an outstanding year. What will that do to their 2017 rank? Who got bumped and who joins the list for the first time? We'll all find out July 24. [read more] |
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 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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 Thanks to Greg Merrill of Media Services Group for sending in this classic of himself from 1974 at KBLW-AM in Logan, Utah. The station was locally owned by a family at the time. We'd love to see your classic photo. Send us YOUR classic photo to
edryantheeditor@gmail.com [read more] |
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 (by Michael Dudding) My last submission to Radio Ink said “don’t get me started on telephone numbers” in ads. Since only 0.24923% of Americans have a photographic memory, the phone number within a commercial is probably forgotten long before the commercial ends. [read more] |
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