Keith Cunningham. One of Radio’s Best PD’s Keith Cunningham is the Program Director at Cumulus' 95/5 KLOS in Los Angeles. He's been a successful PD for two decades now building up quite a resume at some of the country's biggest brands including WXRK K-ROCK in New York, WKQX Q101 in Chicago, KSJO The Rock in San Francisco, WMMR in Philadelphia and WBOS in Boston, among many others. [read more]
How Artificial Intelligence Can Supercharge ROI For Your Advertisers Ryan Steelberg, President of Veritone, and one of the world’s foremost experts in online advertising, will co-host the first in a series of free Radio Ink and RBR-TVBR webinars starting May 23 at 1 p.m. ET. Ryan will reveal new tool sets that enable broadcasters and advertisers to increase ROI and campaign measurement. (REGISTER HERE).[read more]
FCC Proposes $20K Fine for Miami Pirate The Commission says Sergio Plasencia has been operating illegal radio stations in Miami on 101.9 MHz and 107.3 MHz. The Commission has warned Plasencia before which is why it is suggesting the hefty fine. Miami is a hotbed for Pirate radio operators and Plasencia has been running a Pirate station, and being warned by the Commission, since early 2016. [read more]
Targeting The Right Income Demographics(By Bob McCurdy) Common sense dictates that high-income houses buy “luxury” brands and lower-income households buy the “value” brands. Intuitively, it makes sense, but is it true? Is it possible that when it comes to advertising and marketing it is best to exercise some “uncommon” sense?[read more]
Five Benchmarks For New Shows(By Jeff McHugh) You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Many shows ultimately succeed or fail based on their first 60-90 days. For a brand new show, benchmarks are a clear, simple way to introduce the players and what the show is about. The best benchmarks are based on relevant, common-ground subjects that the audience is already interested in. [read more]
Feder: Cumulus Cuts Six in Chicago Robert Feder is reporting that Cumulus cut at least six jobs at its Chicago cluster this past Friday. He reports that the employees let go included traffic reporters Jen DeSalvo, Christina Filiaggi, JoAnn Genette and Marti Jones. Scott Dirks, just a few weeks short of 20 years at WLS, was also fired according to Feder.[read more]
Is Hewitt Getting an MSNBC Show? That's what New York Magazine in reporting. The magazine says MSNBC is in talks with the conservative talker to host a weekend evening show. The magazine reports that the two sides were first discussing a weekend morning show for Hewitt but he wants to be on in the evenings. Hewitt, a Donald Trump supporter, is already a paid commentator for NBC.[read more]
De Amicis Recruited For Entercom Charlotte Cluster With 20 years of sales experience in radio, Entercom found their man in Michael De Amicis. He will handle sales for WBT, WLNK, and WFNZ. De Amicis previously served as the General Sales Manager for Radio One in Atlanta, where he oversaw the local sales force and spearheaded the national sales effort.[read more]
Entercom Shows Faith In What Bo Knows Veteran morning host Bo Thompson has landed a multi-year contract extension with Entercom Charlotte’s News 1110-AM, 99.3-FM WBT. Thompson is host of Charlotte’s Morning News, weekdays from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. Thompson began his career at WBT in 1990. He is a Charlotte native.[read more]
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DUST OFF YOUR CLASSIC PHOTOS 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
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Are You Creating Great Radio Content? Stop hiding it. Tell us all about it so we can brag about it to the entire industry. If your radio station is producing great radio content that's making a big impact on the community, we want to hear about it. Don't be shy. Let us shout about your great work from the industry's rooftop. Send all the details to Radio Ink Editor-in-Chief Ed Ryan at edryantheeditor@gmail.com. [read more]
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