 | |  | | |  |  | | | | | Radio Ranch CEO Dick Orkin, who of course made Chickenman famous in the '60s, is having some fun with the Nevada Election Board's ban on wearing chicken suits at Nevada polling places. The ban was in response to Democrats' "Chickens for Checkups" campaign, which followed Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden's suggestion that people barter with doctors for health care, as when "our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor." Orkin says he intends to look into the constitutional implications of the chicken-costume ban. | | | 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. | |  | | Technology | |  | | Sponsored by  | | The Department of Justice is looking at Apple and digital music, the New York Times reports, and is in the early stages of an antitrust inquiry. Citing "people briefed on the inquiries," the paper says DOJ investigators are looking at "the dynamics of selling music online" and whether Apple asked labels not to participate in an Amazon.com promotion. | |  Clear Channel Radio's iheartradio is now offering commercial-free premium programming from personalities including Sean Hannity and Jim Rome through version 2.3 of the popular mobile streaming app. | | | | Business | | | | Sponsored by  | | CBS Corp. Exec. Chairman Sumner Redstone said at the company's annual shareholder's meeting Wednesday that he will "never sell Viacom or CBS," Reuters reports. Since Comcast made its deal to buy NBC, there has been speculation that other TV networks might be on the block as well. | | | Sherman Kizart's Kizart Media Partners signs a consulting agreement with Arbitron to assist in advertiser outreach for Urban and Spanish-language radio. | | | The Tom Kent radio network picks up five new affiliates, including WXCH in WRZQ in Indianapolis. | |  Arbitron's board has approved a quarterly cash dividend of 10¢ per share. The company held its annual stockholders' meeting this week. | | | |
| | 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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