 | |  | | |  |  | | | |  A Mediaguide review of radio advertising found that the retail and quick-serve restaurant, or fast food, categories showed "marked improvement" in the first quarter, with QSR up 61 percent year-over-year. | |  Spanish Broadcasting System has sent a notice to its shareholders that its board and controlling shareholder Chairman/CEO Raul Alarcon Jr. for a reverse stock split of not more than one-for-five. The notice doesn't mean SBS is committed to a split. | | | ADVERTISEMENT -- REALTORS® spend $1 billion annually to market their services and 30% are ready to buy radio! See the video from the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Annual Conference. Read more. | |  | | Industry | |  | | Sponsored by  |  Douglas Johnston gets a promotion at Premiere, taking the newly created post of SVP of Sales, Central Region, moving up from VP. He continues to oversee the Chicago and Detroit offices. | |  Citadel Media's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are taking a short hiatus from The Joe Scarborough Show to work on a new, three-hour program to be co-hosted by the pair. | | | The RAB, BMI, and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio group are accepting scholarship applications for the third annual "Rising Through the Ranks" scholarship program for women. | | | ADVERTISEMENT -- When searching for a text messaging company to drive revenue and listener engagement, Jennifer Touchette, CBS Interactive Sales Manager, WPGC-FM, CBS - Washington D.C, says hire a firm that will train sellers, offer instructive case studies and can turn creative briefs into sellable programs within 48 hours. Learn more. | | | | Research | | | | Sponsored by  |  Arbitron said in its regular monthly PPM update Monday that it's expanding its cellphone-only recruiting to include people who have landlines, but rarely or never use them. Arbitron also reports that most of its sample performance metrics held steady in March, with all-time highs in average daily in-tab rates for 18-34s overall and black 18-34-year-olds. | | | | Washington | | | | Sponsored by  |  Chris Ornelas comes to the NAB as EVP and chief strategy officer. He was most recently with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and before that was a counsel in the office of then-Senator and now-NAB President/CEO Gordon Smith. | |  NAB President/CEO Gordon Smith and MusicFirst Coalition Exec. Director Jennifer Bendall have op-eds on the proposed performance royalty in Monday's Washington Post. Smith says labels should pay artists, not "the local radio stations that have propelled their careers to stardom," while Bendall contends that the Performance Rights Act simply closes a "loophole." | | | | |  Do you understand the new techniques that increase website visits? Do you understand how Google has changed its search criteria, and how you need to respond? Do you know what drives site visitors away? At Radio Ink's Convergence 2010, the "Sites Magnified" panel, moderated by MediaBridge One President and MediaSpan Online consultant Charles Andrew Whatley and featuring Limelight Networks' Jonathan Cobb and Wizard of Ads' Jeff Sexton, will cover all the details on making a website more effective, more current, and more focused on today's needs for you, your listeners, and your advertisers. Click here to learn more or Click here to register now. | | | | Radio Ink | | | | |  At Cumulus Media's corporate meetings this week, Radio Ink Publisher/CEO Eric Rhoads took the opportunity to talk with Cumulus Chairman/CEO Lew Dickey about, among other things, the company's new partnership with private equity firm Crestview -- a partnership that gives Cumulus around a billion dollars to spend on radio. | |  The Apple iPad is out now, and Radio Ink magazine is there, the first radio industry publication on the iPad and one of the first of all publications. With the iPad's touchscreen, you can flip through the digital edition just as you would a copy of the magazine, with live links, interactive ads, links to video, and with more interactive features on the way. | | | If you've been displaced by the changes in the business or are seeking a new opportunity, Radio Ink wants to help. Put your name in front of the industry with a free listing in Radio Pros Available. And we'll be happy to post your aircheck or demo, or a link to your website. Click the headline to learn more. | | | | | | | | | 
 
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May 3: Spring Talk Radio Focus, with intensely controversial Texas-based talker Alex Jones.
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