Popular Urban Pair Returning To The Fray
Westwood One is launching a new weekday morning show pairing the popular Urban voices of former Hot 105 FM/Miami personality Rick Party and former Kiss 104.1 FM/Atlanta personality Sasha the Diva.
New Multi-Year Deal For Hess
Bill Hess has signed a multi-year contract extension as Vice President, News/Talk, Cumulus Media and PD, WMAL-AM/FM.
Knight’s Promotion Is All The Buzz
Buzz Knight has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Beasley. Knight joined the company in November of 2016.
iHeart, Jelli, Foursquare Collaborating
The three companies are launching a new attribution product for radio that will offer marketers a combination of iHeartMedia’s reach and Jelli’s programmatic buying capabilities, with the attribution and insights tools from location technology company Foursquare.
USRN, SoCast Pushing Smart Speakers
United Stations Radio Networks and SoCast are teaming up to introduce a service for stations called SMART SPEAKER V.A.L.E.T.
Savage Trying Something New
2019 will see Michael Savage launch a one-hour version of The Savage Nation radio show and a new original podcast. The Savage Nation podcast will also be available for radio broadcast.
Bob & Tom Live From The Radio Show
The nationally syndicated Bob & Tom Show will be broadcast live from the 2018 Radio Show in Orlando Wednesday through Friday. The team will broadcast from the North Foyer of the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, 6a.m.-10 a.m. Eastern.
Reynolds Promoted At Beasley Charlotte
John Reynolds has been promoted to the position of Operations Manager at Beasley’s Charlotte-based radio station cluster, which includes WSOC-FM (103.7), WNKS-FM (KISS 95.1) WKQC-FM, K 104.7 FM, SMOKE (94.7), WPEG-FM (Power 98), and WBAV-FM (V101.9).
Three On-Air Promotions At Charlotte Stations
The promotions are at Beasley's V 101.9 and Power 98 in Charlotte and see Brian “Mr. Incognito” Robinson, Janine Davis, and Nikki “Ya Girl Nikki” Davis have their careers advanced.
Why Bob Pittman Was Right
For years, and as far back as 2011, when Pandora was the shiny new toy for consumers, iHeartmedia CEO Bob Pittman was saying the Internet pure-play company was not a sustainable business model on its own. Pittman said Pandora was more like AOL's Instant Messenger, a feature to be offered by a larger company. Monday morning, Sirius XM announced it was buying Pandora for $3.5 billion.
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