iHeartRadio App Launches On Windows Phone 8

7-2-13
Windows Phone 8 users will now be able to access iHeartRadio. For two weeks, iHeartRadio will be featured in Microsoft's "Summer of Appiness" campaign, which encourages customers to visit their local Microsoft retail store to experience the latest version of the app. Senior Director of Marketing and Experiences, Microsoft Retail Stores Kelly Soligon said, "We're excited to showcase the best apps available on Windows Phone 8. As part of the Summer of Appiness program, we're inviting our customers to come into their local Microsoft retail store for the opportunity to experience apps, like iHeartRadio, first hand."

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Broadcasters Provide Lifeline for OK Residents

7-2-13

The NAB's Vice President of Communications Ann Marie Cumming has written another blog addressing the power of local broadcasting, highlighting the extraordinary efforts broadcasters made to help friends and neighbors following the devastation of the tornado in Moore, OK. Her blog includes a 6-minute mini-documentary with never-before-seen footage and testimonials from KJ103-FM, KATT-FM and KMGL-FM. Read the blog HERE

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Valle Creates National Radio Talent System

7-2-13

The veteran consultant says, "For decades, the radio industry has talked of the long-standing need for a farm system that would identify and bring new talent into the industry. Now, the National Radio Talent System is designed to be the ?go to? place to find new, young, passionate, well-educated, entry level talent qualified to excel in radio stations across America." The National Radio Talent System will be a ten-day program held on college campuses, with the goal being that one is held in every region or state in America so students can attend in their home state, and so radio stations can recruit from their own region of the country, or nationally.

Valle says, "Due to the advent of voice-tracking, automation, syndication, and labor laws that minimize or prevent the opportunity for young people to just ?hang around? the radio station, the radio industry has lost much of its training ground." The working model for the National Radio Talent System is the Kellar Radio Talent Institute at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, also created by Vallie.

Vallie says, "It?s the broadcasters who have vision, passion and love for the business that recognize this long-standing need and the importance of finding young, entry level talent, and the National Radio Talent System is the solution to that need. Most know that, while it?s imperative that we continue to have advances in technology and insure that radio is ubiquitous, success in our industry and the future will always depend on people. We have to attract the best and the brightest who have the talent and desire to get into radio to insure we not only hire great young talent today, but also to insure we have great leadership well into this 21st century?and that is not only possible, it has already begun. This is a noble effort.?

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News Salaries Flat Over Past Year

7-2-13
Hofstra University's Bob Papper has released his 2013 survey of news salaries and the results show radio salaries increased 0.8 percent over last year. That's not enough to compensate for 2.1 percent inflation, leaving radio news salaries down 1.3 percent in terms of real wages, according to the study. Papper says major market salaries rose in 2012 by quite a bit. "The overall number was so much lower because median salaries actually fell in large, medium, and small markets, although the small market results were a bit more mixed. As usual, the larger the market, generally, the higher the salary." Here's how some of the news salaries in radio break down.

Overall, the maximum salary in Papper's survey is $130,000 for a News Director, while the average is about $43,000. News reporters average $37,200 with a maximum salary of $110,000. Sports anchor's average $36,700 with a maximum salary of $75,000.

A major market News Director averages $67,000 per year while a large market News Director makes $41,500, a medium market News Director makes $35,500, and a small market News Director is paid $30,000. Papper also looked at radio reporters. In a major market they average a salary of $50,000 compared to a large market reporter at $32,000, a medium market reporter at $32,500, and a small market reporter at $24,000.

Papper says comparisons this year are problematic because of two factors. "First, a disproportionate percentage of major market news directors are skewing this year's numbers out of line on an overall basis, and, second, that's throwing off the numbers of other positions, like producer, anchor and sports anchor, which are becoming less and less common in smaller- and medium-sized markets. The salaries by staff size are almost always highly variable, although there has almost always been a general tendency for the largest news operations to pay more. As with previous years, there is no consistent pattern to salaries based on the number of stations a news director supervises."

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de Castro Makes Changes On Air At WGN

7-1-13

The changes being put in place by WGN GM Jimmy de Castro have been immediate. The David Kaplan Show will air from 7-12 p.m. with a focus on the Chicago sports scene and national sports landscape. That will be followed by an hour of sports talk from Mark Carman and Jordan Bernfield. de Castro said, ?We're making changes in an effort to give Chicagoans more of the things they want to hear. Thank you to our WGN Radio listeners, the most loyal and attentive family, for helping us navigate through this and stay tuned for the best of the old and new coming soon.?

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Home Depot Still Radio's Champ

7-2-13

Home Depot maintained the top spot as radio's number one advertiser according to Media Monitors, the company that tracks how many spots play on the radio every week. Last week, The Home Depot aired 60,812 commercials on the radio across the country. A distant second was iHeartRadio with 38,000, although those were probably trade. McDonalds aired 28,900 spots and came in third, while Midas (25,561) and State Farm (21,958) round out the top 10.

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Where Is Peter Boyles?

7-1-13

Boyles was supposed to start on Salem's KNUS Radio this week after Salem hired him to do mornings shortly after he was fired from Clear Channel-owned KHOW. The Denver Post is speculating that Clear Channel is trying to block the hire. Boyles was allegedly fired after having a physical confrontation with KHOW producer Greg Hollenback. We're told by Salem everything should be finalized today with Boyles hitting the airwaves Wednesday morning.

The KNUS Facebook page says, ?Due to circumstances beyond our control ? we are unable to debut our new program this morning at 6 a.m. We will air our regular programming today and are working diligently to add a new program to our daily lineup at the earliest possible date. Stay tuned for breaking news and intelligent talk. Good things are coming."

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