 | | | |  A group of Democratic lawmakers, including Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) and House Committee On Energy And Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), have announced that they plan to begin a process to update the Communications Act. The first step will be a series of bipartisan meetings to discuss the issues. | | | 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. | |  | | Industry | |  | | Sponsored by  |  The National Radio Hall Of Fame announces its 2010 nominees in four categories for public votes. Among the nominees: Howard Stern, Bob Kingsley, Bob Brinker, and Carl Kasell. Online voting opens June 14. | | | Claudia Horn joins Broadcast Management & Technology as EVP/CFO. Horn, a media-finance veteran, most recently served as managing director and CFO at Stonegate Capital Group. | |  Programming vet Brent Alberts is picked to program Greater Media's Classic Rock WCSX in Detroit. He most recently headed up rock programming for Citadel Broadcasting. | | | Black Card Radio brings in Masa Patterson as affiliate relations director. Patterson holds the same post at Benztown Branding USA and will keep that role in addition to his new duties at Black Card. | | | | Research | | | | Sponsored by  | | The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism reports in a new study that the news stories that gain traction with social media such as blogs, Twitter, and YouTube "differ substantially" from those that lead in the mainstream press. Additionally, says Pew, political partisanship in social media "does not lean strongly to one side or the other," and "both conservative and liberal voices come through strongly." | | | | Business | | | |
| | McVay Syndication's Donny Osmond Show is due to launch in Australia on June 1. The show will be heard in Perth and Canberra via Capital Radio Networks. | | | Broadcast Affiliate Sales signs an exclusive sales representation agreement with Wallace Radio Syndication, working with John Rook and Hit Parade Radio. | | | |
| | Listening levels to streaming radio are soaring, and barriers to adoption are coming down. It's a whole new competitive arena for broadcasters. The Convergence 2010 "The State of Online Audio," moderated by Kurt Hanson, will explain what new and rising audio distribution means to radio, and how you can capture that listening, and new revenue. Also on the panel: AccuRadio's John Gehron, Bonneville's Drew Horowitz, Livio Radio's Jake Sigal, and Pandora's Doug Sterne. Convergence 2010, June 3-4 at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA. Click the headline to register now. Tweeting about Convergence? Use Twitter hashtag #RICV. | | | | 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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