SNL Kagan's new "Advertising Forecasts: U.S. Market Trends & Data for All Major Media" study predicts that the overall U.S. ad market will rise 2.8 percent this year, to $210.5 million. Radio is projected to rise 6.4 percent in 2010. |
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Police have charged a man with the murder of WBOJ-FM/Columbus, GA, PD and morning personality Heath Jackson. Jackson was shot when he interrupted a robbery at his home. Items that appeared to be from a string of recent burglaries were found in a raid at the suspect's residence. |
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Six Townsquare Media stations in Flint, MI, were off the air for several hours Wednesday morning after a fire knocked out their generator. The stations were on backup power after a tree knocked down power lines. |
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Matt Wardlaw moves up to director of operations for Envision Radio Networks, rising from director of marketing. |
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Bill Gamble signs up Schurz Communications' WSBT Radio Group in South Bend, IN, as a consulting client, acting as operations director for the stations. |
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Singer-songwriter Ruby Amanfu joins the Timeless Cool syndicated 24/7 format in middays. |
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Jacobs Media and SBR Creative Media are teaming to offer Christmas music channels for streaming over radio websites and Apple devices, through an app from Jacobs' JacApps. |
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Barbara Prieto arrives at AccuRadio to program the streamer's new AccuRadio R&B lineup. Prieto has worked at such stations as WGCI/Chicago and WKYS/Washington. |
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Andrew Ross Sorkin joins the lineup at Radio Ink's Forecast 2011, set for December 7, 2010 at the Harvard Club in New York. Sorkin is the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for the New York Times and the best-selling author of the recent Too Big to Fail, and he's as well connected in the financial world as anyone in radio. The thrice-daily "Business Brief With Andrew Ross Sorkin" is produced and distributed by United Stations Radio Networks. Click the headlne for Forecast information and registration. |
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September 20: Clear Channel Radio President/CEO 
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