How Can The Radio Industry Improve?
The radio industry has a huge stable of talented managers. 30 of them are interviewed in the October 14 print issue of Radio Ink (Subscribe HERE). Those 30 managers gave us so much useful information we couldn't fit it all between the pages.
iHeartRadio App Free All Weekend
This weekend — October 25 to October 27 — iHeartRadio will be celebrating an All Access Free Preview Weekend. Users and non-users alike can use the iHeartRadio app at no cost.
Kwame Dankwa Joins Townsquare As Brand Manager
Dankwa is joining Townsquare Media’s Portland, ME, cluster as Brand Manager of CHR station WJBQ. He will also handle afternoon drive on WJBQ.
SiriusXM Doing Holiday Music In A Big Way
SiriusXM is getting into the holiday spirit with 15 commercial-free channels, including the Holly and Holiday Traditions channels. Hallmark Channel Radio will kick off the holiday season Friday, October 25, and 12 more music channels will start broadcasting on Friday, November 1.
Where Spirituality And Social Action Meet
Spirited is a new weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Simran Jeet Singh, a renowned educator, writer, and social activist, that explores the relationship between spirituality and social action.
And BFA’s 2020 Golden Mike Goes To…
The Broadcasters Foundation of America has announced Dave Lougee, President and CEO of TEGNA, as recipient of its 2020 Golden Mike Award.
Mohite Promoted At ASCAP
ASCAP has promoted Deepak Mohite to SVP, Software Engineering, within its Global Technology Solutions organization. Mohite joined ASCAP in 2018 as VP, Infrastructure & Platform Services.
iHeart, Buzzfeed To Pod Together
Grasping on to the news of the day iHeartMedia and BuzzFeed News have launched a new podcast together called Impeachment Today. The 10-15 minute daily show covering the Trump impeachment process will be hosted by BuzzFeed News’ Hayes Brown. LISTEN
Former GM Gets Probation
This goes back to a story we first wrote about in July. WCBE-FM GM Dan Mushalko was accused of doctoring invoices to manipulate cash flow and hide the fact that the station owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to NPR.
Robert Added To Walk Of Fame
Beasley’s WMMR-FM/Philadelphia midday jock Pierre Robert was among the inductees of the 2019 Philadelphia Music Alliance’s Annual Walk of Fame on Tuesday.















