What To See At NAB: Tuesday Sessions For Radio
It's the last day of radio sessions at NAB Show 2024, so make today count! Tuesday's agenda includes a guide to teaching talent, more awards for radio excellence, and plenty of opportunities to find and grow your station's revenue through brands and audience.
Fargo Named PD For Rochester ALT Station
Stephens Media Group's WZNE-FM in Rochester has named Kobe Fargo it’s new PD for the Alternative station. Fargo, a Rochester native, has also programmed in Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach and Syracuse.
Teach Your Advertisers Why They Should Buy Radio
(By Bob McCurdy) I had the good fortune of spending a considerable amount of time over the years with a giant in the advertising business, Erwin Ephron. You don’t get named by American Demographics magazine as one of the five most influential media people in the past 25 years (2003) by not being pretty good. Erwin’s gifts were many but one of his most notable was being able to make the complicated, simple.
A Local Veteran Needed Help. Radio To The Rescue
Thanks to Impact Radio Group CEO Darrell Calton and KQBL APD Brenda Mee for sharing this great story about how they helped a local family. The Tillery Fund is a fund in the Boise community started to honor the memory of Joshua Tillery who died when the helicopter he was piloting was shot down in Iraq during a 2009 combat mission. The radio station became involved with the organization two years ago and what they pulled off this year was simply outstanding.
Here’s The Proof Radio Needed Months Ago
Remember all those high hopes radio executives had for political advertising revenue that was supposed to come to radio but didn't? Now look who's turning to radio in the home stretch of this presidential election: Hillary Clinton. But it's not by purchasing ads...
Field Named Chief Revenue Officer
PromoSuite has promoted VP of Sales Rachel Field to the newly created position of Chief Revenue Officer. Field joined PromoSuite in 2000 and was promoted to Senior Account Executive in 2005, DOS in 2011, and VP of Sales in 2015.
LeGeyt Assumes Leadership of NAB
Curtis LeGeyt has taken over as President and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters. His Senior Leadership team has also started work, including a newly created Chief of Staff, and Deputy Chief of Staff positions.
SiriusXM, Dateline Remain Podcasting’s Leaders In November
SiriusXM still stays on top of Triton Digital's US Podcast Sales Network Ranker for November 2023. The reporting period, running October 30 to December 3, saw the SiriusXM Podcast Network hold the number one spot with 43.7 million Average Weekly Downloads.
Alpha February Revenue Revealed
Back in January the company with over 200 stations in 44 markets filed for bankruptcy protection. As part of the process Alpha must file monthly financial reports. In February Alpha shows revenue of $11.6 million. That wasn't enough to cover expenses.
Knowing Nielsen: Panel Change and Audience Change
(By Marc Greenspan) This is another screed about sampling. No, I’m not going to go on about how Nielsen needs to add more panelists in PPM markets. There is no way on Earth that radio will pay for this.
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