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Tribune Co. has suspended Lee Abrams, who serves as chief innovation officer, over an e-mail sent companywide that included links to a raunchy video many employees found offensive. Abrams has apologized, but Tribune CEO Randy Michaels said sending the e-mail was "the kind of serious mistake that can't be tolerated." |
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Sirius XM Radio reports that it added 334,727 net subscribers in the third quarter, ending Q3 with a record-high 19.9 million subs. The satcaster expects to break 20 million by the end of the year. |
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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. |
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The Country Music Association names the winners of its radio awards, with Country Countdown USA's Lon Helton taking the prize as national personality for the fifth time. WUSN/Chicago morning personalities Lisa Dent and Ramblin' Ray Stevens win major-market honors. |
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William McKenna joins Arbitron in the newly created post of SVP/new media ventures, looking for new business opportunities with a focus on potential new PPM customers. McKenna, who worked at Arbitron in the late '80s, was most recently president and CEO of Integrated Media Measurement Inc. |
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Westwood One brings perennial guest host Doug Urbanski on board with his own show, set to begin in January. Producer and actor Urbanski has filled in for Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Fred Thompson, among others. |
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The Wall Street Journal reports that private equity firms are in early talks about the possibility of buying Yahoo, either by teaming up with AOL or taking the 'Net portal private on their own. |
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Entercom Communications partners with Strutta.com Media, which will provide contest marketing across to broadcasters 110 stations. |
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Global Security Systems, maker of ALERT FM, is expanding its FM-based alerting technology to offer an approach to a commercial mobile alert service for cellular carriers. The establishment of the CMAS was part of the WARN Act of 2006. |
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The FCC's Office of Communications Business Opportunities sets a free workshop for small, minority-, and female-owned businesses, focusing on ways to acquire capital. |
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Radio Ink is planning a feature on cutting-edge program/production facilities for an upcoming issue. Have you recently upgraded, or built out a great facility over time? We want to hear about it! Get in touch with Wendy Bernstein. |
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Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the influential Huffington Post and co-host of public radio's Left, Right & Center, will provide the luncheon keynote at Radio Ink's Forecast 2011, to be held December 7, 2010 at the Harvard Club in New York. Huffington, the author of 13 books including most recently On Becoming Fearless in Love, Work, and Life and Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America, launched the Huffington Post news and blog site in 2005. |
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Radio Ink magazine 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. |
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The economy is slowly turning around, and broadcasters are beginning to hire again. 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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October 18: CBS Radio SVP/Programming and L.A. radio icon Kevin Weatherly
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