Clear Channel Radio gives Rhythmic WWVA-FM (Groove 105.7)/Atlanta a simulcast Monday, filling a signal hole for the Groove and blowing up Classic Country WWLG, licensed to nearby Peachtree City. |
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Crista Broadcasting, which purchased Christian Contemporary KFMK-FM (105.9 the River) in June, prepares to flip the station later this month to its own brand of CCM programming, bringing in Tim McCoy as the new GM. |
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Longtime RAB EVP George Hyde joins media broker W.B. Grimes & Co., handling radio mergers and acquisitions. |
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Randy Dunn joins Connoisseur Media as GM of WMGA and WXBW/Huntington, WV. He was most recently GSM of Clear Channel's crosstown cluster. |
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The Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio Group chooses RAB SVP/Training Lynn Anderson as the winner of its 2010 Trailblazer Award. This year's Achievement in Programming Award goes to Becky Brenner, PD and digital Web manager for CBS Radio's KMPS/Seattle. |
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Charles Andrew Whatley is named VP of sales and marketing for media-focused online content management provider MediaSpan Online. |
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Newspaper ad spending fell 5.6 percent in the second quarter, the Newspaper Association of America reports, to $6.4 billion from $6.8 billion in the same period a year ago. That's compared to a 29 percent year-over-year drop in Q2 2009. |
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Gary Krantz's Krantz Media Group will be working on new business development for researcher and consultant Alan Burns and Associates under a newly signed agreement. |
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Apple's new Last.fm-style social music network, Ping, has added more than a million users since it launched last week with the release of iTunes 10. |
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The FCC launches a new set of tools for developers designed to "maximize the value of government data for citizen shareholders," FCC Managing Director Steven VanRoekel said. The offerings include a new FCC License View API, providing "snapshot" views of license data. |
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Andrew Ross Sorkin joins the lineup at Radio Ink's Forecast 2011, set for December 7, 2010 at the Harvard Club in New York. Sorkin is the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for the New York Times and the best-selling author of the recent Too Big to Fail, and he's as well connected in the financial world as anyone in radio. The thrice-daily "Business Brief With Andrew Ross Sorkin" is produced and distributed by United Stations Radio Networks. Click the headlne for Forecast information and registration. |
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