Daniels Radio Personality of the Year

1-30-2015 
San Antonio Magazine has named former San Antonio Spur and co-host of ESPN San Antonio's The Hardline, Antonio Daniels, its Radio Personality of the Year. The Hardline airs weekdays from 2-4PM on 1250AM/94.5 FM.

Program Director Greg Martin said, "Antonio has been an incredible addition to the ESPN San Antonio lineup and people are taking notice. Antonio is a natural storyteller and brings a unique perspective from his experience that not every sports talk host can".

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Former CT Gov, WTIC Personality Found Guilty Of Campaign Violations

9-19-14

Former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland, who also formerly hosted afternoons on CBS Radio's WTIC-AM in Hartford, has been convicted of violating federal campaign laws by hiding consulting fees he received from an unsuccessful Republican candidate.

Rowland was convicted of conspiracy, falsifying records to obstruct an investigation, causing false reports to be filed with the Federal Election Commission, and exceeding campaign contribution limits. The scheme reportedly involved Rowland's being paid about $35,000 through a business run by Brian Foley, the husband of the candidate, Lisa Wilson-Foley, rather than through Wilson-Foley's campaign.

Rowland spent 10 months in prison after being convicted in 2004 of taking bribes from state contractors during his time as governor.

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Mamie Shepherd Wins Radio Personality Project

9-19-13

NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith recognized radio host and programmer Mamie Shepherd as the winner of the NAB Education Foundation's (NABEF) inaugural Radio Personality Project. The announcement was made at the opening event of the NAB/RAB Radio Show yesterday in Orlando.

The Radio Personality Project is an initiative of NABEF to identify a creative and talented individual who has yet to be discovered by the radio industry.

Shepherd's entry stood out among a variety of high0quality entries. She currently coordinates programming and serves as on-air talent at the Levine Children's Hospital's Seacrest Studios broadcast media center in Charlotte, NC.

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Alabama Radio Personality Kevin Whorton Passes

8-12-2013

Florence/Muscle Shoals, AL, radio fixture Kevin Whorton has passed away. He was 52. For most of his 20-plus years in the Florence/Muscle Shoals market, Kevin was the afternoon drive personality at WLAY-FM. "Throughout his years on the air, Kevin was often the first personality in the Shoals to lend aid to various charities and families that needed assistance," said Regional Director of Programming URBan Radio Broadcasting, LLC Brian Rickman. "His generosity and respect for those in their time of need will never be forgotten."

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Former Tulsa Personality Phil Stone Dies

11-24-2012

No explanation about how Stone (pictured here) died and the radio station he used to work at in Tulsa, KMOD-FM is putting together a memorial. Stone's death was reported in the Tulsa World on Saturday. The "Phil and Brent Show" was heard on the station for 27 years before it ended in October (Brent is Brent Douglas).

KMOD Program Director Don Christi tells Radio Ink Stone's family is requesting privacy. "His legacy in this market is unequaled. Over 30 years at the helm of the KMOD Morning Zoo, over 27 of those with co-host Brent Douglas. The two of them known worldwide for their Roy D Mercer character. Dominant ratings winners up until their retirement two months ago. Biggest Radio icon in Tulsa history and a huge loss to the KMOD family, Clear Channel Tulsa and his legion of fans." He leaves behind 5 kids and 3 grandkids. Services are pending.

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Entercom's Fitz Wins "Best Local Personality"

11-9-2012

Entercom Seattle?s 100.7 The Wolf (KKWF) "Fitz In The Morning" host Fitz has been named ?Best Local Radio Personality? by KING-TV?s Evening Magazine ?Best of Western Washington? competition. The online contest is decided by popular vote and 2012 marks the 5th consecutive year that Fitz has grabbed the top spot in the poll.

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(DIGITAL) An Online Personality For Radio?

8-6-2012 

"We're crisp and precise about our on-air execution; why aren't we crisp and precise about what we do on Facebook and Twitter?"  That's the question posed by Matt Haze, who defines himself as a "comedian, media personality, and recovering radio DJ," who is developing a comedy show to offer to public radio stations. Haze describes radio's use of social media as a "wild, wild West" of content, where "everyone is doing their own thing, or just copying everyone else." 

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the people who are filling the new digital sales manager positions. Are we providing any similar digital leadership on the programming and promotion side of the business?  Generally speaking, program directors and promotion managers don't automatically understand and embrace our digital resources in a winning way. Occasionally, clusters have a digital content manager; some of these people are riding the cutting edge of integrating broadcast and digital content. Some, however, are glorified webmasters, who know how to run the software but aren't especially strong on branding or content.

At many stations, the on-air personalities are the ones who are responsible for keeping the social media fresh and updating the website too. In the same way that, on the sales side, a few sellers generally produce the bulk of the digital revenue, Matt Haze believes that stations ought to have a social media personality, who keeps content and engagement going on Facebook and Twitter.

"It'd pretty much be a 24/7 position," Haze speculates, but that such a person would be one who can come up with creative content and be engaging with station fans online, while broadcast personalities are focusing on the on-air product.

"I get that people are really busy," explains Haze, who says that personalities don't have time to adequately come up with creative content for social media, and also track what others are saying about the station. His proposition is that an online personality could be responsible for coming up with really compelling, creative, topical, fun content or subjects to chat about in social media. On-air jocks could mention what's going on online currently as a way to move fans from one platform to another. "It's doing what we do on-air, but doing it better online. Interacting, making a connection, creating a die-hard fan base." 

Haze points out that much of the content and services we provide on-air can make the switch to online, but would have to be executed differently. This includes the revenue side of our business. "For example, you can do personal endorsements online. You can get a conversation going or get people creating videos [to promote a product]."

"Everyone knows the power of creativity," says Haze. "Nobody disagrees with that. Online, you can offer it for free! Yet, almost nobody does it. We worry more about analyzing and controlling 'likes' and 'shares' without thinking about the real people out there."

Chris Miller has been a major-market PD in Atlanta, Portland and Cleveland. He now operates Chris Miller Digital, which he launched. Visit his website at www.chrismillerdigital.com.
Contact Chris via e-mail, chris@chrismillerdigital.com or 216-236-3955.

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Does Your Station Have "Personality?"

6-30-2012

Yesterday, a study underwritten by Katz and conducted by the University of Southern California's Annenberg school for communication, could be used as a great sales piece for every salesperson hitting the street. The study confirmed what most people already know, that consumers turn to radio because they have a connection with their favorite personality. More importantly for sellers, nearly 1 out of every two respondent said they considered purchasing a product when their favorite personality recommended it. Here are more details from that study.

USC-Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism professor Paula Patnoe Woodley talks about the study. ?Our findings underscore the depth of the relationship, loyalty, and trust between listeners and radio personalities. This connection can be a significant benefit for radio station advertisers as demonstrated by the significant number of study respondents who have considered or purchased services or products advertised during radio shows or recommended by favorite on-air personalities.?

Co-author of the study Lauren Movius added, ?With more than half of the respondents saying their favorite radio personality influences their opinion, it is clear that parasocial interaction, or listeners? feelings that they have real relationships with radio on-air personalities, definitely exists.?

Here are detailed results from the study:
?         75 percent of study respondents reported that they turn on the radio because they know their favorite personality is on the air;
?         72 percent of respondents talk to their friends about their favorite personality or what they heard on the program;
?         Notably, listener engagement extended into the online realm, with nearly 70 percent of study participants reporting that they follow their favorite radio personalities and/or radio stations via social media channels;
?         Nearly half (47%) of all respondents considered or purchased products recommended by their favorite radio personalities;
?         More than half (51%) considered or purchased a product advertised during their favorite personality?s show; and
?         Fully 82 percent of study participants expressed feelings and exhibited behaviors consistent with the phenomenon known as ?parasocial identification.?

The web-based study that was underwritten by the Katz Radio Group was conducted in November 2011 and was completed by Woodley Communications and the University of Southern California?s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. More than 600 study participants completed all relevant measures; participation was incentivized via entry into a random drawing to win one of five $100 Amazon.com gift certificates. The survey sample was comprised of 70 percent women and 30 percent men, with 66 percent of participants reporting their age as between 18-34 and 90 percent of participants between 18-49 years of age. Survey sample demographics closely aligned with the composition of the Los Angeles population, with respondents consisting of 45 percent Hispanic, 8 percent Asian, 4 percent African-American, and 43 percent other (compared with 48 percent Hispanic, 11 percent Asian, 9 percent African-American, and 42 percent other, according to the most recent U.S. Census). The complete study results are available at www.katz-media.com.   

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(SOCIAL) How a Personality Shoud Use Social Media

6-11-2012

by Loyd Ford

There are many hats to wear as a radio personality these days, but more and more stations are expecting personalities to have a meaningful participation in social media. Unfortunately, many personalities, stations, and broadcast companies are simply putting content on Facebook or Twitter without a plan or even an idea about how they can contribute something truly meaningful in the social media space that will positively impact their broadcast brand and their career. So, here are four simple guidelines to make your efforts matter for your radio station and your career.

1. Put learning at the top of your list of priorities and think like a child. In other words, times are changing. If you are a parent, you know children adapt to change faster than adults. They soak it up. Recognize a powerful change in your job description caused by listener empowerment (because of Facebook, Twitter, and other options they have for their time) by learning as much as you can about new technologies and trends and really think about how listeners are using social media and what they are using it for so you can capture their attention and bring them to your content.

2. Look for partnerships all the time. Choose wisely your point of content entry and how you want to be perceived in the social media environments important to your listeners and constantly seek partnerships with people, blogs and entities that are in the area of content development you want to influence. Doing this is not only a way to be helpful to others, it is a way to become famous, or more famous, in your market. Use it. You can do so by linking blogs or other content with someone else or co-writing content; it can be developing yourself as a "go-to guest" on other content video or opportunities in print, television, the Internet, and more. Consider this your outreach machine and create opportunities for yourself.

4. Always work to lead listeners back to your broadcast brand and your own company-owned "opportunities." Too many people in our business participate in social media without a plan and without focusing on a goal. We are still in the broadcast business and if you take a paycheck from a broadcast company your goal should still be to lend support to the actual brands you work on today.

If you are a personality on radio at this time, recognize that the world is changing and bite off opportunities to develop additional career tools for yourself by developing a presence in social media that eventually towers over your day job. This is one way you can create more value in your career. If you follow these four simple guidelines with passion and creativity, who knows where it will lead?

Loyd Ford programmed very successful radio brands in markets of all sizes for years, including KRMD AM & FM in Shreveport, WSSL and WMYI in Greenville, WKKT in Charlotte and WBEE in Rochester, NY. Learn more about Loyd here: http://about.me/loydford. Reach out to Loyd via e-mail HERE
Visit his Facebook radio social media page www.facebook.com/socialnetworking4radio

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Longtime Buffalo Radio Personality Iney Wallens Dies

Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Wallens who spent 40 years on the radio at WHLD-AM in the upstate New York City. She was known for spreading good news about Buffalo, and honored over 300 residents with her "Good Neighbor" award to people who made a difference in the community on her Friday radio program.

She also interviewed many celebrities that were on their way to performing at Melody Fair theater in North Tonawanda. Over the years, Mrs. Wallens interviewed the likes of Liberace, Jack Benny, Ethel Merman and Harry Belafonte. Iney's age was a bit of a secret. She told a reporter in 2009, "Age is a number and mine isn't listed."

Iney was born and raised in Buffalo. She had a passion for promoting charities and community causes. Her radio program ran until 2008. Her awards included the Distinguished Broadcasters Award from the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers, the Hometown Hero Award from the Niagara Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Woman of the Year Award from the American Women of Radio and Television. Survivors include her son, Dr. Todd Wallens; a daughter, Bonnie McClure; and a sister, Gloria Sandler.

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