Red Apple Now The Official Owner Of WABC

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John Catsimatidis’s Red Apple Media has completed the $12.5 million purchase of WABC-AM in New York from Cumulus. Catsimatidis told Radio Ink back in June that he has no plans to change the format.

Bloomberg Top Advertiser

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Mike Bloomberg For President was the leading radio advertiser around the country last week, according to Media Monitors. The candidate moved up from second place, running 55,527 spots.

Cumulus Says “We’ll Take Three More Years, Please”

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Nielsen has resigned Cumulus as one of its major radio clients. Cumulus will continue to use Nielsen Audio Measurement services through 2022 and added Continuous Diary Measurement for 120 stations in 24 markets.

Zimmer Sets Fundraising Record

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Congratulations to the Zimmer team in Joplin, MO. The recent St. Jude two-day radiothon the company held raised over $63,000. That was a record for the event which was held by Country station KIX 102.5

V-103 International Launches

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Entercom announced the launch on Friday. The station will be heard on WVEE-HD2 in Atlanta.

Kudos To Dick Purtan

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Purtan's Salvation Army Radiothon this past Friday raised over $1.6 million for the organization's Bed & Bread Program. The money will be used to feed and shelter thousands of men, women and children in Detroit. Since Purtan started the Radiothon 33 years ago over $37 million has been raised.

The Case For Passion

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(By Bob McCurdy) Earlier this week I came across an article titled, "The Effects of Communicating Passion in Advertising: How Messages Like 'We love what we do!' Shape People’s Product and Brand Evaluations."

Three Ways To Differentiate Yourself From The Competition

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(By James Bahm) Spend more than 11 minutes in a sales role and you will see myriad personalities and philosophies at work. Most sales managers I've met all have their "way that works" and in small markets the phrase "that's how we've always done it" is prevalent.

Radio Sews Up Success For This Mom & Pop Business

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Penny Marble is a professional quilter with decades of experience. Her husband Charlie is one of the few certified Singer sewing machine service techs in New York State. And advertising on the radio is one of the best business decisions they've made. Our weekly advertiser success stories are sponsored by SPECbyte.com

5 Ways To Help People With Change

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(By Loyd Ford) You’ve just been instructed to share with your team a corporate change, or introduce a different approach to a project so the company can move ahead or reach new goals. How can you help people on your team with change?

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