Thursday afternoon Fisher Communications announced it had mailed a letter to all Fisher shareholders in connection with the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders May 11th. The letter urges shareholders not to vote for FrontFour's slate of director's stating they have no experience and the slate Fisher is putting up is "highly qualified". The letter criticizes shareholder David Lorber stating "his lack of transparency, poor governance performance and misleading statements demonstrate a willingness to say and do anything to ensure his firm controls Fisher." |
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San Francisco NPR affiliate KQED has come up with an innovative solution to the dilemma public stations face turning off listeners when asking for money. Anyone who ponies up a donation of $45 will be given access to a special online stream of KQED's programming that is entirely free of interruptions during an upcoming pledge drive. |
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Tony Trupiano, a lifelong resident of southeast Michigan and small business owner, left radio in 2006 to run for Congress in Michigan's 11th District. He did not win. Soon, he will return to radio with his progressive talk slant on WDTW in Detroit. What makes a talk show host think popularity on the air will carry over to success in politics? Is it ego? Is it the desire to make a difference? We wondered why Trupiano took the plunge to run for office. He says he learned some serious lessons about the game of politics. |
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The webcast will be Tuesday, April 26 at 3:30 p.m. EDT. On June 1, 2011, the FCC kicks off another cycle of broadcast license renewals. The FCC has made several changes to the license renewal application, and this is the first chance for the current FCC leadership to review your station's qualifications for license renewal. |
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Lin will join the Emmis New York Department Head team leading Digital Programming and Entertainment for the HOT 97, 98.7 KISS FM and 101.9 RXP brands, reporting indirectly to Alex Cameron and directly to VP of Programming, Ebro Darden who she promoted to oversee all programming last year. |
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CBS Radio President Dan Mason made the announcement. "Karen has been a valuable contributor to the success of CBS radio and a trusted communications counsel for our division. Her experience with the media has allowed her to provide invaluable insight and critical thinking as we've evolved our business. She has shown tremendous growth and is a true professional in her field. I'm pleased to be able to announce this well-deserved promotion." |
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Cumulus has started shuffling bodies as they gear up to close the Citadel deal and divest stations to stay within the allowable station count in each market. Since 1997 Donna Baker has run the Kansas City stations for Cumulus. She's being moved to Houston as market manager. As part of her new gig, Baker will be responsible for legendary KRBE-FM and sports talker KFNC. Mark Sullivan also a Cumulus employee moves from Nashville to Kansas City to take Bakers place. Sullivan will oversee the entire cluster of Cumulus/Citadel stations once the deal closes later this year. |
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A Staten Island grand jury has indictmented two suspects in the shooting death of former New York radio personality DJ Megatron. 21 year old William Williams and 20 year old Richard Cromwell were formally charged with murder, robbery and weapon possession. |
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"The Insana Quotient" has added five affiliates to its roster: KASC-FM in Sacramento, WBZS-AM in Providence, KGU-AM in Honolulu, KVCE-AM in Dallas, and KLAV-AM in Las Vegas. Insana is an award-winning journalist, senior analyst/commentator for CNBC, and author who recently added talk radio show host to his credentials. Heard on more than 80 radio stations nationwide via the short-form feature, The Market Score Board Report with Ron Insana, and The Insana Quotient, a daily two-hour program. |
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ENCO Systems provides of Digital Audio Delivery Systems and Radio Automation. Backus is currently Vice President of Sales & Marketing and will retain those responsibilities in his new role. Backus joined ENCO in 1999 as Sales Manager and has been VP of Sales & Marketing since January 2000. |
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Exciting research reveals the wants and needs of radio's most sought after audience -- the 25-54 money demo. Discover what they really want from their radio station. Read more. |
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Michael Robertson, tech entrepreneur and founder/CEO of cloud-based music service MP3Tunes, will deliver a keynote address at Radio Ink's Convergence conference, set for May 18-19 at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, CA. Robertson founded MP3.com in 1997, bringing online music into the mainstream for millions of consumers. By the time it was sold to Vivendi Universal, the company was bringing in $80 million in annual revenues. |
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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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April 18: Cover interview: Townsquare Media CEO Steven Price
