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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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After being fired by NPR over remarks he made on Fox News' O’Reilly Factor, commentator Juan Williams has a new multi-year deal with Fox, and will take on an expanded role at the cable network. Meanwhile, some legislators are calling for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to be defunded after the controversy over Williams' firing. The CPB provides about half of NPR's funding. |
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Scott Hennen will soon be back on the air on WZFG-AM/Fargo, ND, with a new show syndicated by Heartland of America. Hennen, who helped relaunch the station as conservative talker "The Flag" in 2008, exited a few weeks ago over what he called an "impasse with investors." |
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Nielsen takes a look at how consumers use iPads, Kindles, and other "connected devices" in a new study on "The Increasingly Connected Consumer," and finds that most device owners are OK with advertising if it means they can get content for free, and that iPad owners are by far the most receptive to ads among those surveyed. |
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The NAB, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, and 46 state broadcasters' associations are among those who have made a joint filing asking the FCC to extend the 180-day deadline for EAS participants to comply with the newly approved CAP EAS standards. |
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Pandora founder and Chief Strategy Officer Tim Westergren says the pureplay webcaster is taking dead aim at radio: He tells the Los Angeles Times, "Our goal is to be in every new car that rolls off the manufacturing line." |
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Vibes Media expands its agreement with Entercom Communications, and will now be working with 75 Entercom stations. Vibes has been providing mobile services to about half that number of Entercom outlets for several years. |
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In the first issue of each new year, Radio Ink names a Radio Executive of the Year -- an individual who has had a powerful and positive impact on the industry in the previous 12 months. And this year, for the first time, we're asking for your input on the group head or top-level executive who should be recognized. Who is 2010's Radio Executive of the Year? You may nominate someone you work with or for, or someone whose approach and accomplishments you admire. Please submit your suggestions to Managing Editor Wendy Bernstein. |
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PastBlast, the new iPad app from Radio Ink is available now in the Apple App Store. Historical audio, photos, and more from every era of radio's history, with navigation through a beautiful, fully equipped retro radio studio. Click the headline to see it, or get it here. |
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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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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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November 1: Cover Q&A with Mindshare North America CEO Phil Cowdell 
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