 | |  | | |  |  | | | | | Online video provider VMIX chooses Patrick Burns as its new president and CEO. Burns is a tech and finance veteran whose background includes roles at Ford Motor Co., Xerox, and the Maersk Group. | | | Metro Traffic picks Sal Martirano as New York GSM. He arrives from the general sales and program manager post at WRNN-TV. | | | 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. | |  | | Business | |  | | Sponsored by  |  WRKO/Boston personality Howie Carr has filed three complaints against the station with the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, the most recent earlier this year, the Boston Herald reports. Carr was suspended last month for criticizing the station on the air. | | | A new UK campaign called "Radio Amnesty" hopes to encourage listeners to switch to digital radio by offering discounts to those who trade in old analog receivers. | | | | Washington | | | | Sponsored by  | | The FCC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will hold a workshop June 10 on "21st Century Emergency Alerting: Leveraging Multiple Technologies to Bring Alerts and Warnings to the Public." | | | |
| | Are you getting the most out of your digital assets? That's the key question any real digital strategy, simple or elaborate, has to answer. The Convergence 2010 panel on "The Competitive Landscape and the Convergence of Your Digital Assets," led by Tribune's Rockie Thomas, covers the basics and well beyond on ways to capture digital assets and extend your brand. Featured on the panel will be Davis Media's Tom Davis, broadcast and interactive vet Audiation's Sandy Smallens, and ADObjects founder Matthew Snyder. Are you in the radio business, the newspaper business, the television and cable business, national media, local media, or all of the above? Learn what you need to know at Convergence 2010, June 3-4 at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA. Click the headline to register now. | | | | Radio Ink | | | |
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June 7: The Most Influential Women in Radio, with Entercom Regional President Weezie Kramer as our cover interview
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