News

(By Walter Sabo) You and the RAB have actually done an excellent job of maintaining the desirability of radio as an ad medium. The challenge, at street level, is making radio easy to buy. Let me share a unique perspective.

NextRadio has launched a new blog series, and in that first blog, NextRadio unveils new data with the help of Edison Research. It was an online survey of 2,094 adult smartphone users who were asked specifically about radio.

...there's still a lot of room to grow. According to a Strata survey reported on eMarketer, TV or spot cable is where over 50% of agencies prefer to advertise.

Time Warner Cable SportsNet and ESPN Radio Los Angeles 710AM (ESPNLA 710) have reached a multi-year programming agreement to simulcast the Thompson & Trudell show and Mason & Ireland show.

The cause of death is not known at this time. Doyle starred in Babylon 5 and appeared in other TV shows before getting into radio as a conservative host.

Moberly-Macon, Missouri, that is. Benkiel replaces Les Tuttle who was overseeing three Missouri markets. Tuttle will still run Alpha's Farmington-Fetus market. In Moberly, Alpha owns KRES-FM, KWIX-FM, KWIX-AM, KTCM-FM, and KIRK-FM. Most recently, Benkiel was GSM for Cumulus in Macon.

CMG has named Rob Rohr as Ohio Market Vice President, replacing Julia Wallace who announced her retirement earlier this year.

iHeartMedia owns conservative talker 1130-AM in the Twin Cities. Jack Tomczak was hosting the morning show with Andrew Lee but Tomczak is out and nobody is saying why. Lee posted on the radio station website that he's not going to go into the reasons why Tomczak is gone.

iHeartMedia Milwaukee announced Thursday that Tom Potts has been named VP of Sales. He'll now be responsible for generating revenue for FM106.1 WMIL; V100.7 WKKV; 95.7 BIG FM WRIT; News/Talk 1130 WISN-AM; 97-3 NOW WRNW; and Big 920 Sports WOKY-AM.

Entravision Communications is bringing in Michael Holderle as VP of Integrated Marketing Solutions for its McAllen, Texas, market. Holderle will be responsible for selling Entravision’s marketing solutions across the company’s television, radio, digital, and event properties in McAllen.