News

Birmingham, AL, stations WBHK 98.7 Today’s Kiss, WBHJ 95.7 Jamz, and 610 WAGG welcomed the return of Huffman High School students on Friday, March 9, with smiles, hugs, and a balloon release at the ringing of the bell. The students, faculty, and community of Huffman High School are mourning a terrible loss following a shooting inside of the school on Wednesday, March 14.

iHeartMedia Little Rock has announced the debut of HOT 94.9, “All The Hits.” The HOT 94.9 format will consist of songs from artists such as Justin Timberlake, The Weekend, Bruno Mars, Kendrick Lamar, and Imagine Dragons. It replaces Classic Hits from the 70's and 80's.

The Alexandria, LA, station had their Annual Country Cares for St. Jude Radiothon this past Thursday and Friday. The radiothon raised $105,598 for the kids at St. Jude.

NEWS TALK 1037FM in Chambersburg, PA has debuted its new drone the station is calling its "Live Eye In The Sky." GM Patrick Ryan tells Radio Ink the main purpose of the drone will be to cover news and community events. The drone is flown by a licensed commercial drone pilot the station contracts with and it has to be insured each time it goes up in the air.

Futuri Media has announced several key additions to its fast-growing team: Michael Sharkey joins as Product Manager, Jim Roberts joins as National Account Manager, and Jim Tarantine joins as National Account Manager.

WABC in New York will be moving Bernie McGuirk and Sid Rosenberg from middays to mornings on April 2, replacing the Imus In The Morning Show. Last month Imus announced his final show would be March 29. McGuirk has been Imus' Executive Producer since 1987. Rosenberg joined Imus as Sports Anchor in 2000.

Eric Trabb has joined the NAB as Senior Vice President of Business Development. In his new role, Trabb will be responsible for leading and managing the association’s sales team. Trabb has served for the past 11 years as vice president of sales and group publisher for the Broadcast/Video Group at NewBay Media.

(By Renee Cassis) “If you had asked me five years ago if we were still talking about transitioning to digital, I would have said ‘no way.'” That from Beasley Media Group CEO Caroline Beasley, who was part of a panel at the Local Online Advertising Conference, taking place in New York City Monday and Tuesday.

iHeartMedia Tampa Bay announced Monday that AJ Malone has been named Program Director for 98ROCK, “Tampa Bay’s Rock Station.” As Program Director for 98ROCK, Malone will be responsible for the station’s music and programming content, as well its personalities and digital extensions.

The drug store chain moved to number four, from 24th, on last week's Media Monitors chart of top radio advertisers. CVS ran 26,784 commercials on radio stations across the country. GEICO was on top of the chart once again with 32,758 spots. Here were your top 5 advertisers for the week.