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Today's Headlines October 7, 2010 |
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The midterm elections are just a few weeks away, and President Barack Obama appeared on Citadel Media's Michael Baisden Show Wednesday to talk about some issues and to urge listeners to get out to vote on November 2. Obama told Baisden (pictured), "Everybody who's listening to your show, everybody in the barber shops and in the beauty shops and at work, everybody's got to understand: This is a huge election." |
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A long story by David Carr in the New York Times claims that Tribune Co. under CEO Randy Michaels resembles "a frat house, complete with poker parties, juke boxes, and pervasive sex talk." In anticipation of the story, Michaels advised employees in an e-mail to "ignore the noise," the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rosenthal reports. |
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Riccardo D'Anconia is tapped as market manager for Genesis Communications' Orlando-Melbourne cluster. He was most recently managing director for Behrens Rhineheart Communications Group. |
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Longtime Rock station KRZR/Fresno flips to Rhythmic as "106.7 the Beat," playing artists of the '80s and '90s and focusing on the Gen-X listener. |
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At the Future of Music Coalition's Policy Summit in Washington, FCC Media Bureau Audio Division Chief Peter Doyle said he's been disappointed by the slow response to the FCC's rules change allowing HD Radio stations to increase their power. |
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The Audio Engineering Society will present its Broadcast and Media Streaming Audio Conference at the 129th AES Convention, November 4-7, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. |
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Apple is set to begin producing an iPhone that will work on Verizon's network by the end of this year, the Wall Street Journal reports in its online edition. To date, only AT&T has been officially allied with the iPhone. |
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Radio Ink is ramping up for the annual Best Managers in Radio issue, and we're counting on our readers to tell us who should be included on this exclusive list. Click the headline to learn more. |
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Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the influential Huffington Post and co-host of public radio's Left, Right & Center, will provide the luncheon keynote at Radio Ink's Forecast 2011, to be held December 7, 2010 at the Harvard Club in New York. Huffington, the author of 13 books including most recently On Becoming Fearless in Love, Work, and Life and Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America, launched the Huffington Post news and blog site in 2005. |
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Eric Rhoads, publisher of Radio Ink is developing a new iPad application that will choose some historic audio clips of air personalities from throughout radio history. If you would like historic telescoped airchecks of you on the air to be included, or if you have an aircheck collection, please e-mail us your MP3s. Click the headline for more information. |
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Radio Ink magazine the first radio industry publication on the iPad and one of the first of all publications. With the iPad's touchscreen, you can flip through the digital edition just as you would a copy of the magazine, with live links, interactive ads, links to video, and with more interactive features on the way. |
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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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October 18: CBS Radio SVP/Programming and L.A. radio icon Kevin Weatherly
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