Home Depot Keeps Its Home On Top

11-17-14

For the second consecutive week, home-improvement powerhouse the Home Depot leads the Media Monitors chart, with a mighty 49,119 spots aired the week of November 10-16. Walgreens, which topped the list a few weeks back, comes in second with 44,228 spots during the week. Geico aired 41,782 spots for third place, while Autozone came in fourth with 31,957. McDonald's put 27,513 spots on the air last week. The biggest chart jumper was Auto-Zone moving from 25th to 4th.

Rounding out the top 10: Discover cards, with 19,597; Macy's, with 18,810; Jared jewelers, with 18,719; Fox, with 17,273; and Cricket wireless, with 16,670 spots aired.

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NAB Keeps Working The Hill

12-12-13

Thanks to the efforts of your hardworking lobbying organization in Washington, three more members of the House of Representatives from Florida have signed on as co-sponsors of a resolution that opposes "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local broadcast radio stations. The National Association of Broadcasters says the Local Radio Freedom Act now has almost 200 total co-sponsors in the House and Senate.

The members of the bipartisan group adding their support to the Local Radio Freedom Act are Reps. Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), Dennis Ross (FL-15), and Steve Southerland (FL-2). The resolution is now currently co-sponsored by 184 Members of the House and 12 Senators.

Reps. Michael Conaway (R-TX) and Gene Green (D-TX) introduced the Local Radio Freedom Act (H. Con. Res. 16) in the House of Representatives on February 15 along with 71 additional co-sponsors. An identical resolution (S. Con. Res. 6) was introduced in the Senate on March 6 by Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND).

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Gary Sullivan Keeps Chugging Along

6-29-2012

Can we get a nice big round of applause for Gary Sullivan please? Sullivan has been hosting the three hour program "At Home With Gary Sullivan" since 1988 and Premiere says he's now over 200 affiliates. Did you know peppermint prevents mice from entering your home by the way? That was the tip of the day on Gary's website Thursday. The 3-hour weekend program added Philly, Cleveland, Phoenix, Louisville, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Milwaukee to top the 200 mark.

Sullivan said ?I?m so proud of the continued growth of At Home. We have wonderful sponsors and affiliate stations that understand the need to educate the homeowner on how to take care of their largest investment - their home.

Nationally syndicated by Premiere Networks, At Home With Gary Sullivan airs live from 9 a.m. to noon ET on Saturdays and Sundays. For six hours every weekend, Sullivan shares his nearly 40 years of home improvement know how with listeners seeking DIY entertainment and advice. At Home With Gary Sullivan originates from Cincinnati, Ohio, and can be heard in major markets across the U.S., as well as iHeartRadio and XM Satellite Radio Channel 168.

For more information head over to  www.PremiereRadio.com or www.GarySullivanOnline.com.

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Pandora's CEO Keeps Eye on Radio's Revenue

Speaking at the Citi Technology Conference yesterday Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy again stated that growth for his company would come from the advertising market and that advertising will be taken from radio. Not only national advertisers but local advertisers as well. "We are confident in our ability to monetize," Kennedy said. We have two significant advantages over traditional radio; visual advertising after a user interaction - eyes are guaranteed to be on the site - and we can target. It's registration based measurability.

Kennedy also said there are two keys to growing revenue via mobile devices. Listeners are getting away from PC device listening, moving more to mobile and companies like Pandora and Clear Channel certainly realize that. Kennedy says "The keys to mobile monetization are the maturation of the mobile advertising market. It's growing but it's still young. We need to increase the amount of visual ads. On the audio side it's the radio advertising revenue we are growing, not just national advertisers but local advertiser also. Kennedy then said in New York City Pandora has more listeners in 18-35 than Z100.

Kennedy told conference attendees that "we are at a tipping point of the transition from broadcast to Internet listening."

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Pandora claims to fame is hype.

The CEO claims that they have more youthful listeners than Z100. The truth is he can insist he has more listners than all the radio stations across the US but the numbers don't add up.

We own radio and we're not hearing this at all from listeners. It's more likely that he has people working in backrooms at Pandora opening up numerous Pandora Players from their computers and registering those numbers as being credible.

Some people may tune into Pandora as curiousity seekers but there's no real content. That's why Pandora will never be more than a flash in the pan.

In order to survive Pandora is also going to have to start running a lot of ads otherwise bankruptcy will ensue at some point relatively soon.

In all honesty, I would ask that Radio Ink and others would stop giving the CEO of Pandora an audience. Pandora is not radio and doesn't deserve discussion in this forum.

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WMMR Philly Keeps Preston and Steve in The Stable

Greater Media Philadelphia has signed morning personalities Preston (Elliot) & Steve (Morrison) to a new multi-year contract at legendary rocker WMMR-FM. The duo has held wake-up duties at the station since May of 2005. Elliot said "WMMR, hands down, has the coolest staff I've ever worked with. I?m excited to remain in the family of a Philadelphia treasure.?  Morrison said, "We're ecstatic to extend our relationship with Greater Media not only for the joy that is being a part of a legendary station like WMMR, but also because we may now continue our extensive research into eradicating avian influenza."

?I've never seen a morning show at this level of success continue to work as hard at embracing fans, supporting clients, prepping for each show, hosting hundreds of events all while remaining the nicest and most fun people you could ever work with,? said  John Fullam, Market Vice President and General Manager of Greater Media Philadelphia.

WMMR has been a successful rock station for 43 years.

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