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    March 27th, 2024, 06:50 PM
    From Radio Online: Veteran New England sports talent Tyler Murray joins WEEI/Boston's radio booth covering the Red Sox for games this season. The Worcester Red Sox broadcaster, who has also been heard for years calling college hockey games, football and basketball games on NESN is joing the Audacy Sports outlet ahead of More...
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    March 27th, 2024, 04:50 PM
    From Radio Online: High Plains Radio Network, a broadcaster operating in Texas, Arkansas and New Mexico, is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. With its petition filed in the Northern District of Texas, the company disclosed debts and assets each ranging between $1 million and $10 million. The More...
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    March 27th, 2024, 04:10 PM
    From Radio Online: The Kansas House made a significant show of support for Kansas broadcasters and AM radio by passing House Concurrent Resolution 5026, with a 109-14 vote. The resolution endorses the Federal AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act. The measure, proposed in the 118th Congress, aims to enhance More...
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    March 27th, 2024, 03:20 PM
    From Radio Insight: Nielsen continues its release of the February 2024 diary surveys today. Today’s markets include monthly ratings for Monthly ratings for Birmingham, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, Fort Myers, Greenville/Spartanburg, Richmond, and Rochester, and Tucson. Other markets coming this week include: On Thursday, March 28: Monthly ratings for Albany/Schenectady/Troy, Allentown/Bethlehem, Dayton, Fresno, Grand Rapids and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. more
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    March 27th, 2024, 02:50 PM
    From Radio Online: vCreative has teamed up with Evvnt, the Events Commerce Platform, to introduce vTickets through a reseller agreement. This partnership unlocks new revenue streams for radio stations by enhancing ticketing and promotions opportunities via a suite of white-label ticketing, marketing, and More...
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    March 27th, 2024, 02:50 PM
    From Radio Online: Audacy Podcasts launches "Who Killed the Video Star? The Story of MTV," an eight-part original series exploring the cultural history, impact and phenomenon of MTV. The series is hosted by former MTV VJ and Esquire Editor-at-Large Dave Holmes. The program will launch with the first two episodes on Wednesday, More...
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    March 27th, 2024, 02:10 PM
    From Radio Insight: Binnie Media has announced a pair of executive promotions. Faith Francis rises to Chief Operating Officer for the company operating stations in Maine and New Hampshire. Francis most recently had served as Executive Vice President of Sales since January 2020 after previously holding other roles including Regional Sales Manager for the company and Station Manager for their Laconia NH stations. She has previously held roles in television and print and spent eight years running a Portland ME based advertising agency. Heath Cole rises from VP/Programming to EVP/Programming and Operations. Cole joined the company in 2019 as Captain of their Upper Valley NH stations, was promoted to General Manager in 2020 and VP/Programming later that year. He previously spent 22 years in programming, management, and sales including thirteen years as Director of Broadcasting for Dartmouth University, and stints as Nassau Broadcasting and Vox Radio Hanover NH/Lebanon VT. President/CEO Massimo Rosati stated, ?Both Faith and Heath have been crucial to our success in key areas of the business, and this will give them the ability to affect change on a broader scale. We have a profitable, vibrant business and great culture at Binnie Media, allowing people to have flexibility with accountability, and allow long term employees the opportunity to be promoted from within.? more
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    March 27th, 2024, 12:30 PM
    From Radio Insight: KFMW’s AI DJ ToriA year after the first AI-related product offerings ignited controversy at radio, it?s clear that AI has made its most real inroads at places other than behind the microphone, such as writing or voicing spec spots. The usages I?m most excited about are those that potentially free up PDs to deal more with on-air creativity. I?m also excited to hear Audacy?s recently announced AI-augmented custom stations as they roll out over the next few months. At Country Radio Seminar?s AI Interactive Town Hall in late February, the session?s panelists took to the audience to solicit positive examples of AI usage. Those included AI to create custom artwork, safe for use on station websites with no clearance issues, including the station that had created a ?Toby Keith ascending to Heaven? visual. A label person suggested that AI would make it easier for artists to contribute station promo and sweeper copy. One had used AI as the voice of a ?bad Santa? for holiday promos. The most prominent mention of AI for on-air personality came from Lakes Media?s Tom Birch, now a small-market station owner, but also an industry veteran known for his ratings service in the ?80s. Lakes? Soft AC WHLF South Boston, Va., did follow a live morning show with an AI-driven one last year. After six months of fine tuning, Birch said, there had been no loss of audience (based on streaming activity) or complaints.* Like KBFF (Live 95) Portland, Ore.?s AI companion to middayer Ashley Elzinga a year ago, Birch said that WHLF is making use of Futuri?s Audio AI (now rebranded from RadioGPT). So is NRG?s Active Rock KFMW (Rock 108) Waterloo, Iowa, which is currently moving its AI DJ Tori from overnights to weekend mornings. I took a First Listen to both. AC has always been at the center of the voice-tracking question. In its early days, one of the most heard arguments was “do you really need to pay somebody to stand in a room for four hours and say ‘more music, less talk”? Now, if an AC show is mostly service features, aren’t listeners already asking Siri and Alexa for those? Yet, AC has been one of the formats that has held up best against unhosted streaming choices, perhaps because breaks are a little less restrictive now. Even with liners, AC personality has always been said to hinge on vocal nuance, something harder to replicate with AI. I listened to WHLF?s ?Nicole? last week and again this morning, March 21 in the 7 a.m. hour. Not counting song tags, the voice was used for about six breaks an hour, mostly just to say hi and promote the “most music in the morning with Nicole,” but sometimes to crossplug all-’80s weekends or the Sunday “Yacht Rock” show, to give weather, or to tease that the news was next. There were also legal IDs and a “listen on your devices” promo that seemed to use an AI voice as well. The hour of WHLF I heard reminded me of Classic Hits WVEK Johnson City, Tenn. When I heard that station nearly two years ago, before Futuri?s RadioGPT announcement, that station?s morning show was using song-tags/backsells that had a definite Siri/Alexa feel. There were also a few similarly cadenced topical bits, something that Nicole wasn?t doing. WVEK now has PD Steve Mann doing mornings. KFMW?s ?Tori? was more ambitious?closer to the attention-getting RadioGPT demo of a year ago than any of the other on-air efforts that I?m aware of. Tori did backsells, crossplugs, and station promos for half-price gift cards. But she also gave factoids and back story about songs. Tori intro?ed the Beastie Boys? ?(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)? with ?What?s up kids? I?m AI Tory. It?s time to party!? The latter was probably her most natural-sounding line in case you?re wondering what a sentient AI would actually want.* In general, Rock 108?s attitude toward its AI show was winking–very much in the spirit of ?bad Santa.? At various points, the character identifies herself as ?your favorite fake DJ? who is ?making Saturday mornings weird.? A jock sweeper goes as far as having the imaging voice say ?we?re not worried about AI taking our jobs anytime soon.? Now that Tori is doing weekend mornings, it’s likely that direction will continue, confirming my initial sense that one of the best on-air AI uses was to create something deliberately funny and outrageous. In the spirit of Siri and Alexa, I also like it better as a co-host or team member than anchor. Rather than actors in phony prank calls, would it be funnier and more challenging for the morning show to react to a ChatGPT character? (It wouldn?t surprise me to hear that AI is being used to write those bits already.) AC CHQM (Move 103.5)*producer Joey Arsenault praised ChatGPT’s value for writing morning trivia questions; for those stations without the ability to do “Thousand Dollar Minute” features, why not “host vs. AI”? Here’s what I wrote about the first publicized use of AI hosting last summer. more
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    March 27th, 2024, 12:30 PM
    From Radio Insight: High Plains Radio Network has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Northern District of Texas. The company, founded and led by Monte Spearman, is claiming both assets and liabilities worth between $1 million and $10 million. Many of its stations have been silent over the past couple of years, with a few having their licenses cancelled in the past two years. The company’s 980 KICA Clovis NM and 98.3 KICA-FM Farwell TX were cancelled earlier this month after losing their tower leases at the end of 2022. 92.5 KKRE Hollis OK was cancelled last month after being silent for over a calendar year. The company filed last July to sell thirteen of their stations in Arkansas and Mississippi to Jay Brentlinger’s Broadcast Industry Group for $3.5 million, but the sale was withdrawn a few weeks later. A similar sale between the parties failed to close in 2020. High Plains Radio Network currently holds licenses in Arkansas, Colorado, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas. more
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    March 27th, 2024, 10:20 AM
    From Radio Online: Last year, Edison Research's Share of Ear was able to pinpoint the moment when daily time spent with on-demand audio passed time spent with linear audio overall in the U.S. In fact -- on demand had passed linear in every location years earlier -- with the exception of one popular listening location: the car. More...
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    March 27th, 2024, 09:50 AM
    From Radio Insight: Lori Barghini and Julia Cobbs announced on Tuesday that they will retire from afternoons at Hubbard Broadcasting’s female focused Talk “MyTalk 107.1” KTMY Coon Rapids/Minneapolis MN at the end of June. Barghini and Cobbs have been part of the station since its flip to Talk in 2002. They first met in the early 1990s when they began working for the same company. In 1999, they invented Bodyperks, a silicone nipple meant to enhance the appearance of women?s breasts, which led to the duo doing media tours to promote the product and deciding to pursue radio. In explaining their decision, Barghini stated on the air that she wanted more time to visit her mother and travel following the death of her father last summer, which their duties at the station prevented. Cobbs followed that *the decision sped up her timeline, “but I?m okay and I’m really good with it now.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by myTalk 107.1 (@mytalk1071) more
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    March 26th, 2024, 11:41 PM
    From Radio Online: iHeartMedia is conducting series of layoffs as part of a nationwide restructuring within the company. The moves are affecting several key figures and veteran broadcasters. Region SVP of Programming for the Carolina Metro A.J., with a 12-year tenure at iHeartMedia, is out. He had More...
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    March 26th, 2024, 04:20 PM
    From Radio Online: Triton Digital has acquired Sounder, an audio intelligence platform. As part of Triton Digital, Sounder will continue to provide advanced contextual targeting solutions, brand suitability and podcast promotional tools. This acquisition combines Triton Digital's audio streaming and More...
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    March 26th, 2024, 03:50 PM
    From Radio Insight: Nielsen begins its releases of the February 2024 diary surveys today. Today’s markets include monthly ratings for Baton Rouge, Louisville, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, and Puerto Rico. Other markets coming this week include: On Wednesday, March 27: Monthly ratings for Birmingham, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, Fort Myers, Greenville/Spartanburg, Richmond, and Rochester, and Tucson. On Thursday, March 28: Monthly ratings for Albany/Schenectady/Troy, Allentown/Bethlehem, Dayton, Fresno, Grand Rapids and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. more
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    March 26th, 2024, 03:00 PM
    From Radio Online: SiriusXM will offer coverage for the full 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, from opening day through the postseason. Subscribers will have access to live play-by-play calls of every game, as well as 24/7 news, talk and expert analysis on the MLB Network Radio channel (channel More...
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    March 26th, 2024, 03:00 PM
    From Radio Online: Audacy is expanding its relationship with Amy Poehler's Paper Kite Productions with the launch of "Million Dollar Advice," a weekly work and career advice podcast under the Audacy Podcasts and Paper Kite Podcasts banners hosted by Kim Lessing and Kate Arend, friends, colleagues and the Co-Heads of Film and More...
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    March 26th, 2024, 02:20 PM
    From Radio Online: Beasley Media Group in Boston has announced its newly minted, multi-year partnership with the Boston Athletic Association. WBZ-FM (98.5 The Sports Hub), WKLB (Country 102.5), WROR-FM, WBQT (Hot 96.9) and WBOS (Rock 92.9) will provide on-air content and marketing as well as onsite More...
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    March 26th, 2024, 01:10 PM
    From Radio Insight: When radio stations or their hosts submit airchecks for radio awards, they?re usually heavily edited ?greatest hits? reels. They start out with a barrage of big-name morning-show guests. There are usually highlights from radiothons or other public service promotions. In between, there?s very little sense of what the station sounds like in real time.* When I monitor a radio station or personality, I usually have a different checklist. Did I feel like there was something going on at the station? Did I laugh, (or choke up)? Did I learn anything about life in the market?* When I listened to the ACM Station of the Year winners two years ago, they did a good job on that score, as one would hope. But so did this year?s Small-Market ACM Country Station of the Year nominees, including the ?choked-up? part. In that last ACM listen, there was still a sense of stations trying to cover the ?New Country? franchise, even as more and older gold titles came into the format. There?s more new country worth talking about now, but I only came across one station that had its positional flag planted there. The station that most felt centered around Country?s streaming-era artists didn?t talk about era at all. Here’s a Fresh Listen to the five nominees as heard on Monday, March 18:* WNGC (Your Georgia Country) Athens, Ga.This year?s ACM small-market nominees feature two long-prominent ?shadow market? stations. Cox?s WNGC Athens, Ga., under veteran PD Pete deGraaff, competes with nearby Atlanta stations with a lot of localism. On one sweeper, the listeners identified themselves by name and town. Another encouraged them to try the Brunswick stew at Zeb?s BBQ in Danielsville.* Middayer Abby Jessen teased the Adam & Haley morning show?s Zach Bryan ticket giveaway. (?If you?re thinking ?I don?t know how I?m going to get into this one ? ?) She also preceded a Luke Combs song by declaring, ?I?m convinced he?s just trying to see how much he can make us cry? on his social media postings. Here’s WNGC at 10 a.m.: Kane Brown, ?I Can Feel It? Dustin Lynch f/Mackenzie Porter, ?Thinking ?Bout You? Zach Bryan, ?Something in the Orange? Scotty McCreery, ?Cab in a Solo? ? with an artist-intro stager Garth Brooks, ?Ain?t Goin? Down (?Til the Sun Comes Up)? Thomas Rhett f/Morgan Wallen, ?Mamaw?s House? Kenny Chesney, ?American Kids? Jelly Roll w/Lainey Wilson, ?Save Me? George Birge, ?Mind on You? Jason Aldean, ?Burnin? It Down? ? with a ?Georgia artists play here? stager Luke Combs, ?The Kind of Love We Make? Megan Moroney, ?I?m Not Pretty? Alabama, ?Song of the South? ? on ?the only station where you?ll hear real country like Alabama? Chris Stapleton, ?White Horse? Jordan Davis, ?What My World Spins Around? KCLR (Clear 99) Columbia, Mo.On Monday morning, KCLR (Clear 99) Columbia, Mo., middayer Josh Ryan did a break about driving across Missouri for a kids? softball tournament and celebrating by having a Reuben Sandwich Pizza at Wally?s, a Buc-Ees-like mega-service station.* At the end of the hour, he returned to the topic, explaining that it was his daughter?s first tournament since undergoing nine months of chemotherapy, how it put being a travel-sports parent in perspective, and how grateful he was for her chance to be a child again.* Zimmer?s KCLR and its sister stations are radio-awards perennials. Ryan also did a break that hour on the ACM nominations for both the station and the Liz & Scotty morning show. He thanked the audience for not just listening but supporting the station and its causes. It?s also worth mentioning that a lot of the local spots heard showed a level of enterprise and creativity less heard in this hard-sell era. Here?s Clear 99 at 10 a.m.: Megan Maroney, ?Tennessee Orange? Scotty McCreery, ?Cab in a Solo? Brad Paisley, ?She?s Everything? Mitchell Tenpenny, ?Truth About You? Luke Combs, ?Where the Wild Things Are? Travis Tritt, ?Take It Easy? ? with a ?throwback? stager Tyler Hubbard, ?Back Then Right Now? Dan + Shay, ?Save Me the Trouble? Bailey Zimmerman, ?Rock and a Hard Place? Thomas Rhett f/Morgan Wallen, ?Mamaw?s House? Jason Aldean, ?Trouble with a Heartbreak? Dierks Bentley, ?Lot of Leavin? Left to Do? Chayce Beckham, ?23? Duncan Lynch f/Jelly Roll, ?Chevrolet? ? with a sweeper ?supporting the new faces of country music? Eric Church, ?Drink in My Hand? WRTB (95.3 the Bull) Rockford, Ill.Launched in 2014, Mid-West Family?s WRTB (The Bull) Rockford, Ill., is the newest station on here. Despite having a ?90s title in the hour I monitored, ?The State Line?s Country? was also the station most entrenched in the new post-streaming sound of Country music. It was also the only station I head doing a produced artist feature, ?The County Breakdown.? Early midday host Ryan Sartori did both an impossible question/?morning mindbender? (44% of men notice a woman?s hair first) and a post-St. Patrick?s Day bit about the cost of post-holiday hangovers to your employer (about $1.90 for every drink you have). At the end of the hour, he handed off to Gordon Hayes, ?the other big-bearded gentlemen who works here.?* Here?s the Bull at 11 a.m.: Chris Janson, ?Good Vibes? Conner Smith, ?Creek Will Rise? Jackson Dean, ?Don?t Come Lookin?? Megan Moroney, ?I?m Not Pretty? Chris Stapleton, ?Tennessee Whiskey? Riley Green f/Luke Combs, ?Different Round Here? David Lee Murphy , ?Dust on the Bottle? Morgan Wallen f/Eric Church, ?Man Made a Bar? Keith Urban, ?Long Hot Summer? Cole Swindell, ?Drinkaby? Tyler Hubbard, ?5 Foot 9? Kenny Chesney, ?Take Her Home? Luke Bryan, ?I See You? Darius Rucker, ?Alright? Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett, ?It?s Five O?Clock Somewhere? WFLS Fredericksburg, Va.?May your clothes be comfy, your coffee be strong, and your Monday be short,? said WFLS Fredericksburg, Va., middayer Bonnie Miller in her first break of the morning. Alpha Media?s WFLS is a longtime small-market powerhouse that also shows up in the Washington, D.C., ratings. That morning, Miller was preparing to give away Alabama tickets on the all-request lunch-hour; there were also tickets coming up to the Paranormal Cirque and, with morning team Steve & Tiffany, the Fredericksburg Wine & Food Festival. WFLS has a sweeper that promotes both ?variety? and ?the best of today?s new country.? There?s also a hook promo that begins ??if you?re new to WFLS, let me give you a little sample of what you?ll get,? which featured Luke Combs, Kane Brown, and Chris Stapleton. Here?s WFLS just before 10 a.m.: Kenny Chesney, ?There Goes My Life? Scotty McCreery, ?Cab in a Solo? Morgan Wallen, ?Whiskey Glasses? Corey Kent, ?Wild as Her? Chayce Beckham, ?23? Dierks Bentley, ?Sideways? Bryan Martin, ?We Ride? ? with a ?discover the best new country now? stager Jelly Roll w/Lainey Wilson, ?Save Me? Tim McGraw, ?Where the Green Grass Grows? Warren Zeider, ?Pretty Little Poison? Chris Young & Kane Brown, ?Famous Friends? Cody Johnson, ?Dirt Cheap? Thompson Square, ?Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not? Luke Combs, ?Where the Wild Things Are? KATI (Cat Country 94.3) Jefferson City, Mo.It speaks to the strength of the Zimmer mid-Missouri cluster that two stations in the same region are nominated. In the 10 a.m. hour I heard, KATI (Cat Country 94.3) was also the only one of five nominees that is jockless, but there were a lot of promos for morning team Kevin Hilley & Erin Hart, including the team?s Classroom Caravan, where they read stories at local schools. Afternoons are hosted, and like Clear 99, the local spots here showed the same level of creative enterprise. Cat Country 94.3 is positioned as ?all-time favorites for Central Missouri.? This is the yesterday-and-today mix in the 10 a.m. hour: Toby Keith, ?How Do You Like Me Now? Dierks Bentley, ?Somewhere on a Beach? Randy Travis, ?If I Didn?t Have You? Corey Kent, ?Wild as Her? Craig Morgan, ?International Harvester? Jon Pardi, ?Last Night Lonely? Daryle Singletary, ?Too Much Fun? Rodney Atkins, ?These Are My People? Shania Twain, ?(If You?re Not in It for Love) I?m Outta Here!? Chris Young & Kane Brown, ?Famous Friends? Dustin Lynch, ?Where It?s At? Chris Stapleton, ?Starting Over? Tim McGraw, ?Everywhere? Eric Church, ?Drink in My Hand? Keith Urban, ?Somebody Like You? more
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    March 26th, 2024, 12:20 PM
    From Radio Insight: Boston University Public News/Talk 90.9 WBUR-FM Boston will initiate a round of contract buyouts in an attempt to prevent layoffs. WBUR CEO Margaret Low sent a letter to employees highlighting the need for the station to cut 10% of its budget ahead of the start of the new fiscal year on July first accounting for at least $4 million in expenses. Low noted that the offer will be open to every full or part-time employee with a regular weekly schedule who has worked at the station for at least three months. Any staffer who takes the buyout will receive one week’s salary for every year at the station, health benefits during that time, an additional four-weeks pay as a lump sum, paid for accrued vacation time owed, career transition services, and will exit on Friday, May 10. In an interview with the station’s news department, Low blamed the budget cuts on a decline in corporate sponsorships as more advertising dollars are moved online. She said, “WBUR has never been stronger, but the business has never been harder.? The story also notes that ahead of making the buyout announcement, Low met with SAG-AFTRA to discuss other ways to avert layoffs. Despite being in one of the few markets with two strong Public News/Talk stations as well as a News heavy commercial station, WBUR currently ranks third in the Boston market with a 6.1 share. iHeartMedia News 1030 WBZ is sixth at a 4.9 share and fellow Public News/Talker 89.7 WGBH-FM is eighth with a 4.6. WBUR currently has 220 employees. more
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    March 26th, 2024, 11:20 AM
    From Radio Online: TuneIn has announced the one-year anniversary of Boss Radio 66 on the platform, spinning more than 7,000 digitized 45s and retro radio ads and jingles from legendary Boss Radio formats like KHJ, KILT, KDAY, KYA, KCOH, WABC and more. To celebrate, the team behind the 60's music More...
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    March 26th, 2024, 10:30 AM
    From Radio Online: Mundo Hispano Digital, the parent company of MundoNow.com, one of the oldest Certified Minority Latino media platforms in the U.S., announced a partnership with iHeartMedia. The new collaboration will include MundoNow's audio network Oyenos' slate of podcasts being distributed by iHeartPodcasts. Since its More...
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    March 26th, 2024, 10:30 AM
    From Radio Online: Talentmasters Morning Show Boot Camp (MSBC) has announced this year's 'Kidd Kraddick Award' recipient will be Kevin Rolston of the KVJ show from Hubbard Radio's WRMF-FM/West Palm Beach. Named in honor of the late Kidd Kraddick, the award recognizes those of unparalleled success, inimitable style and More...
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    March 26th, 2024, 09:11 AM
    From Radio Insight: Hubbard Hot AC 97.9 WRMF West Palm Beach morning host Kevin Rolston has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Kidd Kraddick Award to be presented at Morning Show Boot Camp in August. The award awarded to recognize those of unparalleled success, inimitable style and authenticity. exemplary service to their community and serving as a constant source of inspiration to other shows and personalities. The previous year’s recipient is charged with selecting the following year’s honoree. 101.3 KDWB Minneapolis morning host Dave Ryan selected Rolston stating, “The responsibility of choosing the next Kidd Kraddick Award winner is the hardest part of winning this award. So many amazing radio people went through my head like characters on a slot machine! But I owed Kevin for helping me hide that body at Boot Camp 2014 so I knew he was the one.” Ryan continues, “Seriously, Kevin is amazing on two important fronts. Of course he’s an incredible radio talent. His content is different and fun and innovative and absolutely compelling. He never plays it safe and it pays off. On top of that, he’s a visionary. He sees where the industry is going and how to get his show on that same path. If you want to know where to point your show in 2024, follow Kevin. He gets it. I get such a kick out of knowing I had anything to do with Kevin’s career and I’m honored to pass this award on to that college student that used to listen to my show back in the day.” Rolston accepted his award stating, “There isn’t an honor I would cherish more. I believe Kidd Kraddick was the most gifted person to ever crack a microphone in our industry. Everyone to have received his award is an industry giant. I don’t feel worthy, but I’m not gonna turn this down either! And to receive this award from Dave Ryan is such a cool full-circle moment for me. Dave Ryan is the sole reason I’m even in radio in the first place. Hearing him on the Morning Zoo at WNCI in Columbus as a young impressionable kid at Ohio University who couldn’t pick a career path, inspired me and gave me the idea that maybe I could do this too. I wanted to be him so bad. Kind of weird where life takes you.” Rolston has hosted mornings at WRMF with Virginia Sinicki and Jason Pennington since July 2014. “The KVJ Show” originally debuted at CHR “Wild 95.5” WLDI West Palm Beach in 1999 before moving to Cox Media Group’s Hot AC “97.3 The Coast” turned CHR “Hits 97.3” WFLC Miami for a brief ten month run in July 2013. He previously served as Imaging Director and morning producer/co-host at “Mix 93.3” KMXV Kansas City from 1997 to 1999 and worked in promotions at “Z100” WHTZ New York. Past recipients of the Kidd Kraddick Award include “The Bert Show” host Bert Weiss, the Kidd Kraddick Show, the Ace & TJ Show”, WXLP Quad Cities’ Greg Dwyer & Bill Michaels, WBGG-FM Miami’s Paul Castronovo, KZOK Seattle morning host BJ Shea, WAIO Rochester’s Brother Wease, WKQI Detroit’s Mojo, and Dave Ryan. The Kraddick Award will be presented during Talentmasters’ 36th Annual Morning Show Boot Camp (MSBC), taking place August 8-10 at The Hard Rock Hotel, San Diego. Read more and register*at RadioMSBC.com. more
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    March 26th, 2024, 08:10 AM
    From Radio Insight: After five years in mornings at Max Media Country “97.3 The Eagle” WGH-FM Newport News/Norfolk VA, Cash Warren has departed the station. Warren joined WGH-FM in March 2019 first teamed with Carly Quinn and since July 2021 with Annaliese Lemieux-Kaplan. Prior to his arrival in Norfolk, he used the on-air name ‘Jason Kidd’ as Program Director/morning host at Alpha Media Country 97.9 KGNC Amarillo TX from 2015-19 and Burt Broadcasting Country 105.3 KZZX Alamogordo NM from 2008-14. Warren shares, “After five incredible years of being a part of the Eagle team, my time at this amazing radio station has come to an end. I am filled with gratitude towards my amazing wife and awesome kids for joining me on this unforgettable wild ride that has been an integral part of our lives. The future is bright! I can’t wait to see what happens next. Big thanks to Keith Barton for trusting me these past 5 years on the Eagle.” He can be reached and followed at @cashwarren_radio. Lemieux-Kaplan continues on in mornings. No word yet on if there are plans to fill the morning vacancy. View this post on Instagram A post shared by more
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    March 26th, 2024, 07:10 AM
    From Radio Insight: Lotus Communications flipped Variety Hits “100.1 The Hits” KWEE Dayton/Reno NV to Classic Country “100.1 Hank-FM” KXZZ on Monday at 5pm. Utilizing Kroeger Media’s “Hank-FM” format in-a-box, the station is focusing on Country hits from the 70s through 90s. The flip brings the station into a crowded Country market that includes Evans Broadcast Group’s Classic Country “Cowboy Country 102.5” 1300 KCMY/102.5 K273AF and a pair of current based Country stations in Reno Media Group’s “Ten Country 97.3” KOLC and Cumulus’ “K-Bull 98.1” KBUL-FM. KWEE had a 1.2 share in the Fall 2023 Nielsen Audio Ratings. KCMY was right behind with a 1.0 share. more
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    March 26th, 2024, 05:40 AM
    From Radio Insight: Minnesota Public Radio’s AAA “The Current” network based at 89.3 KCMP Minneapolis has promoted Zach McCormick to midday host. McCormick joined KCMP in early 2023 as overnight and fill-in host. He began his radio career at University of Minnesota’s “Radio K” 770 KUOK while in high school and spent over three years at Go Media’s Alternative “Go 96.3” KZGO in multiple roles including editorial producer, Editor in Chief, mix show DJ, and evening host. He has also held multiple other writing and marketing positions. McCormick fills the midday show position that became vacant when Jade Tittle resigned from the station last October after dealing with a stalker. more
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    March 25th, 2024, 10:17 PM
    From Radio Insight: Midday hosts Jason ‘Puck’ Puckett and Jim Moore have exited iHeartMedia Sports 93.3 KJR-FM Seattle in a move only partially related to the recent layoffs at the company. Puckett noted that he had been off the air for the past three weeks while negotiating a new contract with the company. After getting an offer he thought was agreeable last Monday, he found out the next day that the company had laid off Moore. He wrote, “The timing of the move left me angry, sad, confused and conflicted. Since last Thursday I have grappled with what direction to go in. Many, many sleepless nights has led to my decision to part ways with the station and not seek a new contract.” The duo had hosted 10am to 1pm together since October 2021. Puckett had been with KJR-FM and predecessor 950 KJR since 2002 in multiple roles including morning show producer and hosting middays with multiple partners as well as solo. Moore joined the station in October 2021 after previously spending eleven years co-hosting afternoons at Bonneville’s “710 ESPN” KIRO and serving as a writer for their SeattleSports.com. He also spent 26 years as a Sports columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. pic.twitter.com/Il9jn7wqD4 — Puck (@Puck2040) March 26, 2024 more
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    March 25th, 2024, 05:40 PM
    From Radio Online: WQOL-FM/West Palm Beach andamp; Treasure Coast flips to "Coast 103.7," Variety from the '80s and '90s, effective immediately. The rebranded iHeartMedia Classic Hits outlet will focus focusing on hits featuring artists like Madonna, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Bon Jovi and Prince. The station will also feature More...
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    March 25th, 2024, 03:50 PM
    From Radio Online: In a never-before conducted study, Mediaprobe measured second-by-second electrodermal activity (EDA) and dial data on the response of respondents to pre-recorded AM/FM radio segments in various genres for the purpose of understanding overall strength of ad engagement, brand fit, and recall of the AM/FM radio More...
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    March 25th, 2024, 03:50 PM
    From Radio Online: The following is commentary from Bernardoni Media andamp; Marketing's Bill Bernardoni: I have loved radio since I was just a kid listening to Pat Hughes and Ron Santo call Cubs games on WGN Radio in Chicago and all these many years later, despite everything I have been through in the radio industry (that More...
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