News

The RAB has announced that the deadline to enter the 2020 Radio Mercury Awards has been extended to Monday, August 17. There is no charge to enter. All the info is HERE.

Scott Jameson is the new Director of Programming for Beasley's Detroit cluster. Jameson's last gig was with Cumulus as VP of Classic Rock Programming, PD at KQRS-FM and Ops Manager for 2 other stations in Minneapolis. He replaces Jerry Tarrants who exited earlier this month.

Al Beck is the new nighttime personality Beasley Media Group's 96 K-ROCK (WRXK-FM) in Fort Myers, Florida. The new duties were added to his present work at WRIF-FM in Detroit and ROCK 92.9 in Boston.

Stephens Media Group has named Doug Gann, General Manager of the Alexandria, Louisiana Market. This is his first radio management position, but he is no stranger to radio.

The Ad Council has announced the winners of the annual Project Yellow Light scholarship competition. Two scholarships, sponsored by iHeartMedia, were awarded for radio PSAs.

The Mentoring & Inspiring Women In Radio Group has named Ruth Presslaff as the new National Spokeswoman. Presslaff is the founder of Presslaff Interactive Revenue and leader of Second Street Media Enterprise Sales.

Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan has joined the Pandora Billionaires Club. Pandora says Gaffigan is the first stand-up comic to reach a billion audio streams.

The National Hockey League returns to the ice August 1 with a special, limited game season. Westwood One in conjunction with NBC Sports will carry the games through the Stanley Cup Finals this fall.

UNINTERRUPTED Radio has landed on Pandora. The curated station features music that top NBA and WNBA players listen to, packaged in three selectable modes.

That's what Bill Leitch writes in a column at MLB.com. Leitch says, while TV is doing the best it can to cover these unusual looking games, with radio the game sounds almost indistinguishable from the way it has always sounded. "It's the closest I have found to actually escaping into baseball during this time, legitimately finding myself soothed by the game."