Ben Hill returns to CBS Radio as SVP and market manager for the five-station West Palm Beach cluster. He earlier served as president and GM of WPGC/Washington and market manager for Pamal in Gainesville-Ocala. |
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Kevin Waltman is headed to Tallahassee as market manager for Clear Channel Radio's five-station cluster. He transfers in from the sales director post for CCR in Little Rock. |
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The NAB Education Foundation and the Broadcast Education Association name the winners of their annual Freedom of Speech PSA competition for college students. The winners were recognized at the Society of Professional Journalists conference in Las Vegas. |
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Ohio broadcast icon Van Lane has passed away at age 89. Lane spent more than 50 years in the broadcast industry. |
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Adelante Media Group -- formerly Bustos Media -- signs a multi-year contract with Arbitron for PPM and diary ratings across all Adelante's radio markets. |
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Premiere Radio Networks is teaming with communications company Polycom to let Country stations participate via video in the annual radio remote broadcast leading up to the CMA Awards in Nashville. |
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Greg Bestick, who's served as president of the Learning Company and CEO of Broderbund Software, joins the board of Westwood One, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of WW1 founder Norman Pattiz. |
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BMI is projecting that the market for ringback tones -- the songs callers hear when they place a call to some mobile phones -- will be about $181 million this year, down from $195 million in 2009. But even with sales flat, the use of ringbacks hasn't fallen off. |
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Radio Ink is ramping up for the annual Best Managers in Radio issue, and we're counting on our readers to tell us who should be included on this exclusive list. Click the headline to learn more. |
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Michael Drew's popular "Pendulum" presentation was a hit at Radio Ink's Convergence earlier this year, and video is now available of the presentation, from TedxCalgary. Click the headline to watch. |
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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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Eric Rhoads, publisher of Radio Ink is developing a new iPad application that will choose some historic audio clips of air personalities from throughout radio history. If you would like historic telescoped airchecks of you on the air to be included, or if you have an aircheck collection, please e-mail us your MP3s. Click the headline for more information. |
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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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