WXXI Takes First Place For News Report
At the New York Associated Press Association Awards banquet this past weekend, WXXI Radio won 1st Place in the Spot News category for coverage of shootings that took place in Rochester back in 2015.
EMF Picks Up An FM In Lafayette, Indiana
Greg Guy of Patrick Communications fills us in on this Educational Media Foundation purchase. The station, WFRW-FM in market #222, is being sold by Christian Radio Friends to EMF for $300,000 cash.
Forbes Returns To Beasley’s WJBR
Susan Forbes is hired back by Beasley as Event Producer for WJBR-FM in Wilmington. Forbes was Promotions Director for WJBR in 2012.
Pandora Inks Deal With Music Reports
Pandora has announced a partnership with Music Reports, which is a platform to manage mechanical licensing and royalty administration. Pandora will use Music Reports for its upcoming interactive streaming service.
NPR Reporter Killed in Afghanistan
According to the NPR website, photojournalist David Gilkey (pictured) was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday along with NPR's Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna.
Toledo Morning Man Receives Special Award
The Toledo Blade has the details about WKKO's Harvey Steele who, dying from liver failure 19 years ago, received a second chance at life with a liver transplant. Today Steele will be awarded the National Donor Memorial Award for Excellence.
Five Questions For KPLU General Manager Joey Cohn
Last month it was announced that "The Friends of KPLU," after only five months, raised the $7 million which enabled the 501(c)(3) to purchase the license of the Seattle station from Pacific Lutheran University. That prevented the station from being sold to the University of Washington. Joey Cohn is the GM of the station and one of the many hard-working "Friends" that made this happen.
Have You Checked Your Reach Lately?
(By Bob McCurdy) While soliciting broadcast clients at Katz years ago, we used a simple diagram to highlight the importance of having a larger sales staff than whichever Interep company we happened to be targeting. Our motto was, “God is on the side of the larger army.” The point we stressed was that even if our salespeople weren’t better than Interep’s, all else being equal in terms of work ethic, training, pre-selling efforts, and closing ratio, our larger sales staff would produce better results.
Garabo Shows Kindness To Kids With Cancer
Drew Garabo, afternoon drive host on 102.5 The Bone (WHPT 102.5 FM) in Tampa Bay, threw a party for a group of amazing kids on Saturday, June 4, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Bone Studios. Garabo decided to fill the void left by former fellow radio personality Jayde Donovan by awarding an iPad to 12 very special young children battling childhood cancer.
Ali On Leadership
(By Buzz Knight) We lost one of the most incredible individuals in our lifetime with the passing of the great Muhammad Ali. A true giant. A man who taught us through his actions, flair, and words that sometimes things need to be shaken up.
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