Directing Revenue To Minority Owned Broadcasters
Havas Media Group has launched BIPOC Media Connections, a program designed to help advertisers direct more revenue to support Black-owned and Hispanic-owned radio stations across the United States.
Honors For Heidi Raphael
The Chief Communications Officer of the Beasley Media Group, Heidi Raphael, is being honored by The Buffalo Broadcasters Association. She is the recipient of the Buffalo Bob Smith award.
Audacy Beefing Up Newsrooms
Audacy is set to launch a new centralized digital team dedicated to news and add over 50 journalists in eight of its newsrooms across the country. The changes will also see the launch of original longform podcasts from local news brands.
KBLA Names VP Of Sales
Otis Warren is the new Vice President of Sales for the new talk radio station, KBLA Talk 1580 in Los Angeles. Tavis Smiley put the station on the air Juneteenth 2021 billing it as an "Unapologetically Progressive" talk station for the African American listening audience.
Broadcast Camp Gets National TV Spotlight
Radio & TV personality Sam Alex’s media masterclass Camp Broadcast was featured on ABC's GMA3. The network also interviewed two of his campers from last summer who are now working in the industry. Camp Broadcast will be in Chicago next week.
Schemmel Joins KFKA To Call UNC Games
Jerry Schemmel, former radio play-by-play voice of the Colorado Rockies and Denver Nuggets, will become the new radio voice of the University of Northern Colorado Bears football and men’s basketball team.
MIW Mentorship Announced
The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio group, and MRC Data, have announced their Elevating Women in Audio: MIW & BDSradio Mentorship. This is MIW’s fourth annual mentorship opportunity designed specifically for women in music programming.
Kim Komando on CNBC Tonight
Thursday night between 7 and 8 p.m. Eastern, syndicated radio host Kim Komando will appear on The News with Shepard Smith on CNBC. Komando is scheduled to talk about food loyalty programs data tracking, why they are hot and the good, bad and ugly about them.
50 Years On NYC Radio
Dennis Elsas marks 50 years on New York radio this month. Elsas started on overnights at NYC Heritage Station WNEW-FM in 1971; and will celebrate his golden anniversary on WFUV; where he has been on the air for more than 20 years.
New PD At WYEP
WYEP, Pittsburgh’s community-supported adult alternative album station, has named Liz Felix as the station’s new program director. She joined the station in 2019.
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