The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, will deliver a keynote speech during the 2011 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Genachowski's remarks will be made during the FCC Chairman's Breakfast on Tuesday, April 12. "The FCC is currently considering many political and regulatory issues that will have a lasting impact on the broadcast industry," said NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith |
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Fresh articles not found in Radio Ink magazine to help make your job as a manager easier every day. News flashes as they happen. Information about our highly successful conventions. New Hires and Fires. Much more. |
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Fourth 3-hour daily co-anchored news day part to air 6p.m. to 9p.m. eastern starting May 9th. TRN says the next launch is being accelerated due to affiliate demand and current world events. ARNN's first 3-hour daily block of all news programming, broadcast Monday-Friday at noon to 3 p.m. EST was launched January 24th. |
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Seth Godin is one of the most popular authors, marketers and entrepreneurs over the past decade. His 1999 book Permission Marketing is a classic, named best business book by Fortune Magazine. In all, Godin has written more than a dozen worldwide bestsellers that have been translated into more than thirty languages. We are very excited to announce we will be bringing you some of Godin's best articles. Godin's articles, no doubt, will help you help your customers succeed in a very competitive advertising and marketing environment. In his first piece, he details how you can help your clients easily and inexpensively, compete on the web. |
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Eastman Radio Promotes Catherine Clowers to VP New York and Miranda Martin to Senior AE in L.A. Clowers began her career in media on the buying side of the business and worked for several advertising agencies, including Media Inc. and Deutsch. Martin started in print media at the LA Weekly newspaper after graduating from California State University at Northridge. |
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United Stations Radio Networks Promotes Bob LaGrega to VP/Affiliate Relations for News/Talk Programming. LaGrega spent nearly 30 years with the ABC Radio Networks in New York handling both Affiliate Relations and Operations duties before joining USRN at the start of 2008. |
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Nationally syndicated radio talk show host and New York Times best-selling author, Dave Ramsey, presented his common-sense debt reduction and wealth-building strategies to a crowd of nearly 10,000 people at his Total Money Makeover Live event in Kansas City. Affiliate KCMO-AM was the host station. |
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The first radio syndication effort to come from the Elvis Duran Group proves successful as Mr. Moviefone's Six Second Reviews is on the fast track with more than 300 radio stations in just 30 days. Russ Leatherman, the world-famous Mr. Moviefone, has taken six seconds and turned them into valuable micro-segments for stations. |
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The host who called himself the "Crossover Negro" on the air is accused of sexually abusing two 11-year-old girls in 2004 and raping one of them. One of the girls was the daughter of another radio personality. The attorney for Hopkins says the charges are false. Lawyers for both sides made opening statements Tuesday in the Hopkins trial in Manhattan. |
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appMobi (www.appmobi.com) has named Lee Westerfield as the company's chief financial officer. Westerfield, a widely-recognized Internet and media equity analyst and investment banker, comes to appMobi after a fifteen year career on Wall Street with BMO Capital Markets and UBS. At BMO, Westerfield held senior positions in both equity research and investment banking. |
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In-app advertising is becoming all too easy and simple to set up, with companies like Google's AdMob, Apple's iAds and other agencies like Millennial providing easy-to-use SDKs (Software Development Kits) driven by APIs (Application Programming System) using jquery and json, the latest javascript programming formats. Companies like AdLarge, TargetSpot and Ando Media, traditional providers of in-stream ads for desktop, are also starting to develop APIs for mobile devices as well. |
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Radio Ink's Tech Summit will be held this year on May 17-18 at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, CA , immediately preceding Convergence 11, which will be on May 18-19. Tech Summit presents new media's best and brightest technologists sharing the latest and most innovative trends. This conference will cover both the technical and business aspects of new radio technology in a way that stimulates better understanding of each sector by engineers and managers alike. It's a unique opportunity for radio managers and their technical teams to convene in a single forum that charts a coherent course toward future growth. Click here for the complete Tech Summit agenda. |
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Radio Ink is proud to announce the very first Radio Ink Digital Media Awards to recognize excellence in digital media from radio and online radio. It's the first award of its kind to highlight the innovative thinkers in our industry. We are very excited to be able to honor those who have done so much to push the envelope in our business. And we look forward to debating over who are the most innovative minds in the radio industry. |
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Radio Ink debuts the Mighty Red II, bringing back the little HD radio with mighty HD sound. New features on the Mighty Red II include Artist Experience -- cover art, artist info, and more -- onscreen ads that can be synced with audio, Live Pause, and song and ad Bookmarking. It's a great gift for clients to show them what's really possible with HD Radio. Click the headline to order now. |
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PastBlast, the new iPad app from Radio Ink is available now in the Apple App Store. Historical audio, photos, and more from every era of radio's history, with navigation through a beautiful, fully equipped retro radio studio. Click the headline to see it, or get it here. |
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March 21: Cover interview: Slacker Radio CEO Jim Cady.
