Flashback: Garziglia Predicted FCC Would Punt
In his May 26 blog entitled "Court Chides FCC For Not Doing Its Job," Broadcast attorney John Garziglia predicted the FCC might just take the easy way out and basically do nothing to the ownership rules. And, for sure, The Commission did nearly exactly what Garziglia opined last month. He also wrote about what the court might do if the Commission did decide to do nothing.
Radio Newsroom Salaries Finally On The Rise
Bob Papper, who is a Professor Emeritus at Hofstra University, has released his seventh annual survey of newsrooms across the United States. Papper reports that salaries in radio newsrooms were up 3.1% from last year – after dropping 4.1% a year ago and barely moving the year before that.
Large Markets Generate 53% Of Radio Revenue
According to the new BIA State of the Industry report, stations in the largest markets account for a disproportionate share of overall industry revenues. Radio stations in the top 50 ranked markets constitute 19.1 percent of commercial radio stations in the U.S. but generated 52.8 percent of all over-the-air advertising revenues in 2015. Check out this chart for more details...
AC and News Formats Generate Most Revenue
In the new BIA/Kelsey State of The Industry report, the research firm says stations airing those formats attract larger numbers of higher income and higher educated listeners. In contrast a lower share of revenue goes to Spanish language stations.
Prediction: Digital Revenue To Hit $258 Billion
MediaPost has the details from a new Juniper Research study that says digital advertising revenue will double to $285 Billion by 2020. The study also says ad blocking is expected to cost publishers $27 billion in lost revenues in the next five years. The study also predicts mobile advertising is expected to grow by 64.2% through 2020.
NBA’s Hawks Extend With CBS Atlanta
The new deal includes all games being broadcast in WZGC-FM (The Game). Additionally, new Hawks-based content – across digital, social, and radio channels – for both 92.9 The Game and V-103, will be developed as part of the expanded partnership. Steve Holman will begin his 32nd year as the play-by-play announcer for the franchise in 2016-17.
Joan Hamburg: 2016 Radio Ink MIW Legend
Joan Hamburg does a lot of things extremely well. Wife, mother (she has a National Mother of the Year award for that), broadcaster, friend, advocate, and humanitarian. Joan Hamburg has succeeded at many roles throughout her storied career. And in 2016 she was named Radio Ink's MIW Legend.
How To Successfully Lead 100 People
Elizabeth Hamma started her radio career as a promotions director in Syracuse, NY. When she realized the salespeople were making good money on her ideas, she quickly moved into sales at WSYR. That decision would put Hamma on the fast track to success in the radio industry. Today she is an extremely successful manager in West Palm Beach working for Larry Wilson's Alpha Media. We caught up with Hamma recently to get her insight on what it takes to become a successful manager in radio today.
Unintentional Mentors
(By Jeff McHugh) Stay aware of the people you encounter and your biggest lessons in life and career may come from peers, perfect strangers, and momentary encounters. Here are some valuable things I learned along the way...
Are You Pampering Your Clients?
(by Bob McCurdy) Before any kind of surgical operation, the surgeon typically meets with the patient to discuss the procedure to ensure that the patient knows exactly what to expect and after the surgery, meets with the patient to discuss how things went.