Bill White takes the post of program director at Tribune Co.'s lone radio property, News/Talker WGN-AM/Chicago. He was most recently operations director for Greater Media's WBT-AM & FM and WLNK in Charlotte. White succeeds Kevin Metheny, who exited in November. |
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The University of Southern California makes a deal with Entercom to take over the call letters and Classical programming of KDFC/San Francisco for noncommercial KUSF, which USC has purchased from the University of San Francisco. The former home of KDFC, at 102.1, will simulcast Entercom's Classic Rock KUFX/San Jose. |
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Country Radio Broadcasters offers a $99 "unemployment rate" for CRS 2011, set for March 2-4 in Nashville. The special rate is available through February 18. |
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Two men have been arrested in the theft of equipment from WHIO-TV/Dayton's transmission tower -- a break-in that knocked Country sister WHKO-FM off the air. |
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Apple saw record revenues of $26.74 billion in its fiscal first quarter, which ended December 25. Quarterly profits came in at $6 billion ($6.43 per share), also a record and up from $3.38 billion ($3.67) a year ago. The company sold record numbers of Macs and iPhones in Q1, along with more than 7 million iPads. |
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Magnaglobal updates its U.S. Media Advertising Revenue Forecast, predicting that media-industry advertising revenues will rise 3.1 percent this year, excluding the effects of political and Olympics advertising. That adds up to about $178 billion in revenues for the year. |
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Digital ad network TargetSpot is now selling in-stream ads for CBS Radio stations available via the Radio.com, AOL Radio, and Yahoo Music mobile apps. Additionally TargetSpot will deliver audio ads to the CBS Radio stations on the Radio.com iPad app. |
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CBS Interactive Music Group will represent ad sales for ToneFuse worldwide under a newly signed deal. ToneFuse represents video advertising across more than 100 music websites, and reaches an estimated 500 million users each month. |
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Radio Ink is seeking input on who should be included on this year's annual list of the Most Influential African Americans in Radio. And this year we'd like to highlight not only the industry leaders today, but the leaders of the future. |
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Check out the lower right of our homepage for the new Radio Ink Social Hub, powered by CellSpin. This widget feeds all the industry news from Radio Ink and radio-related posts from Twitter (with more feeds to come) -- and you can contribute too. |
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The agenda for Radio Ink's Convergence 2011 is now online. Watch for more information, including speakers, panel participants, and other exciting conference news, to be posted often. Click the headline for the agenda, or click here to register for Convergence, set for May 18-19 at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus. |
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Radio Ink debuts the Mighty Red II, bringing back the little HD radio with mighty HD sound. New features on the Mighty Red II include Artist Experience -- cover art, artist info, and more -- onscreen ads that can be synced with audio, Live Pause, and song and ad Bookmarking. It's a great gift for clients to show them what's really possible with HD Radio. Click the headline to order now. |
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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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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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