Wall Street is talking about "a worse year for car sales than analysts had anticipated," says the Los Angeles Times, with Barclays Capital and other analysts citing declining consumer confidence and lowering their predictions for auto sales in 2010. |
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Radio Ink is pleased to announce that Citadel CEO Farid Suleman will co-chair Forecast 2011, set for December 7, 2010 at the Harvard Club in New York. Suleman, who has headed Citadel since 2002, will co-chair Forecast with Wells Fargo Securities' Marci Ryvicker. |
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Katz Radio Group promotes Shaunagh Guinness to SVP/research and marketing in New York. She moves up from VP/research and marketing. |
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Cox Media Group names Gene Vidler VP/MM for its Tulsa cluster, moving up from a GSM role. He succeeds Dan Lawrie, who recently took the same title for San Antonio. |
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DC-based National Public Radio has "quietly changed its name" to just NPR because it's "more than radio these days," the Washington Post reports. |
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Arbitron's new "Public Radio Today" report shows that News/Talk is the most listened to public radio format, bringing in almost half of all listening to pubcasters. Twelve more public stations adopted the N/T format in 2009. |
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A new survey from Pew Research finds that 59 percent of American adults now go online wirelessly, and that the use of non-voice apps on mobile phones has "grown significantly" over the past year. Pew reports that 38 percent of mobile phone users use their phones to access the Internet, up from 25 percent a year ago, while 33 percent play music on their phones, up from 21 percent. |
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Ando Media reports that Pandora was the top-ranked webcaster in the U.S. in May, based on average active sessions. Pandora came in with 402,978 AAS, followed by CBS Radio with 166,644. CBS topped the numbers for all streams, U.S. and international, with AAS of 171, 491. |
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Subscription music services like Rhapsody and Pandora are gaining traction -- and new competition -- now that mobile is booming, says the New York Times' Bob Tedeschi. |
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