Popular KMJ 580 AM / 105.9 FM talk host with nearly three decades on Fresno’s airwaves has announced that he will be entering a state of semi-retirement and hanging up his headphones.
Chris Daniel, who started his radio career in the Central Valley by helping found KRZR in 1989, where he hosted the morning program “Front Row” from 1990 to 2004. He later moved onto KMJ, where he became the host of The Chris Daniel Show. In a letter addressing his departure, Daniel explained that he’d contemplated retirement for a few years, but the passing of his mother complicated matters.
“First of all, I am ok,” Daniel said. “Truly. Stop worrying. I was simply looking hard at some things that I have been contemplating for a while now and I wanted to be certain that I was doing the right thing.”
The Business Journal reports Daniel further elaborated that his departure, which was announced on Monday, had nothing to do with the station or its staff. He gave no specifics to this future plans, but stated that if he does return to radio, he would only do so with KMJ.
“KMJ was, by far, the best job I ever had, but also the hardest,” he said. “That’s not a bad thing at all — just the facts.”
Daniel said that he would possibly go back on the air at some point (as a guest) to further explain his departure.
Harle was the owner of two radio stations based in Newport — KCUP 1230 AM and KPPT 100.7 FM. The FM station became known as Boss FM, and Harle proudly accepted the title of “The Boss of the Boss.”
Harle was born in Southern California on April 6, 1944. She moved to McMinnville in the late 1950s and graduated from McMinnville High School. She married Jim McAnally and settled in Pendleton, having three boys, Greg, Paul and Andy.
A strong and independent woman, Harle worked as a nurse and later at a medical office in Pendleton. She later made a career change and became the sales manager at KTIX radio station in Pendleton. In the following years, she was remarried to Andy Harle, and together they purchased and operated a number of stations in Pendleton and Newport. After Andy died in 2003, she continued operating the two stations in Newport.
➦In 1909....Radio announcer Kenneth Banghart born in Paramus, NJ (Died at age 70 - May 25, 1980 in Delray Beach, FL).
Banghart was working as a tour conductor and manager of Thomas Cook and Son Travel Agency in Washington, D.C., when he became a radio announcer at WRC, then went on to be a radio and television announcer, and a news commentator and sportscaster. Served briefly during WWII, as a war correspondent, then in 1944, he moved to New York where he became an NBC staff announcer.
He was the announcer Archie Andrews, Katie's Daughter (1947-1948); syndicated program, Proudly We Hail (1947-1957); The Private Files Of Rex Saunders on NBC (1951); Encore on NBC (1952-1953); Best Of All on NBC (1954-1955).
Host of The Ken Banghart Show on NBC-Radio (1947); News Game on NBC-Radio (1954). Commentator on The Gillette Summer Sports Reel for NBC-TV (1953). In 1962, Banghart left NBC to work at CBS until he retired to Florida.
➦In 2000...John R. Gambling does the last “Rambling With Gambling” show on WOR 710 AM NYC. Gambling joined his father as co-host of Rambling with Gambling in 1985, and took over as sole host in 1991 after his father's retirement. When WOR ended Rambling with Gambling in 2000 after 75 years on the air, John R. Gambling moved up the dial to 77WABC, taking over the post-morning-drive 10 a.m. - noon slot. Gambling was fired by WABC on February 29, 2008 in a cost-cutting move
➦In 2001...Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City silenced four FM and nine TV stations.
Video produced by Art Vuolo Jr:
Since three of the major television broadcast network owned-and-operated stations had their transmission towers atop the North Tower (One World Trade Center), coverage was limited after the collapse of the tower. The FM transmitter of National Public Radio station WNYC was also destroyed in the collapse of the North Tower and its offices evacuated. For an interim period, it continued broadcasting on its AM frequency and used NPR's New York offices to produce its programming.
The satellite feed of one television station, WPIX, froze on the last image received from the WTC mast; the image (a remote-camera shot of the burning towers), viewable across North America (as WPIX is available on cable TV in many areas), remained on the screen for much of the day until WPIX was able to set up alternate transmission facilities. It shows the WTC at the moment power cut off to the WPIX transmitter, prior to the towers' collapse.
During the September 11, 2001 attacks, WCBS-TV channel 2 and WXTV-TV channel 41 stayed on the air. Unlike most other major New York television stations, WCBS-TV maintained a full-powered backup transmitter at the Empire State Building after moving its main transmitter to the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The station was also simulcasted nationally on Viacom (which at the time owned CBS) cable network VH1 that day. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the station lent transmission time to the other stations who had lost their transmitters, until they found suitable backup equipment and locations.
The Emergency Alert System was never activated in the terrorist attacks, as the extensive media coverage made it unnecessary.
9/11 Simultaneous Broadcast from Six Networks of the first fifteen minutes
Television coverage of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and their aftermath was the longest uninterrupted news event in the history of U.S. television. The major U.S. broadcast and cable networks were on the air for days with uninterrupted coverage from the moment news first came that the first plane hit the World Trade Center.
Millions of shocked television viewers watching live pictures of the World Trade Center saw the second plane hit and both buildings come down. In order to keep up with the constant flood of information, at 10:49 a.m. EDT, Fox News Channel began running continuous updates in the form of a news ticker that crawled along the bottom of the screen. This was so well received by viewers that it became a permanent feature on the channel and was adopted by many other news channels.
Like television, almost all radio stations across the United States put a halt on all programs and commercials to simulcast affiliated news coverage of the attacks from ABC News Radio and CBS Radio News, or taking an audio simulcast of a television news operation, be it local or national, while national morning shows hosted by personalities such as Rick Dees or Howard Stern focused on providing both information about the attacks and call-in forums for listeners to express sympathies.
Local New York all-news radio operations WINS and WCBS, along with Washington's WTOP carried locally based coverage that was simulcast on those sister FM stations without operations destroyed at the World Trade Center as AM operations with transmitters on the outskirts of metropolitan areas were unaffected outside of security concerns for studio and transmitter facilities.
XM Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service headquartered in Washington, D.C., was scheduled to launch on September 12, 2001. As a direct result of the attacks, the launch was delayed until September 25 when the service debuted on a limited basis in San Diego and Dallas.
➦In 1989....KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO 94.9 FM. Today the Classic Rocks station is owned by iHeartMedia
➦In 2005…Sportscaster Christopher Eugene Schenkel died at age 82 (Born - August 21, 1923). Over the course of five decades he called play-by-play for numerous sports on television and radio.
He began his broadcasting career at radio station WBAA while studying for a premedical degree at Purdue University. He served in the military during World War II and the Korean War. He worked in radio for a time at WLBC in Muncie, Indiana.and then moved to television, in Providence, RI, and in 1947 began announcing Harvard football games. For six years he did local radio and called the Thoroughbred horse races at Narragansett Park.
In 1952, Schenkel was hired by the DuMont Television Network, for which he broadcast New York Giants football and hosted DuMont's Boxing From Eastern Parkway (1953-1954) and Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena (1954–56), replacing Dennis James as the network's primary boxing announcer.Schenkel was at the microphone for DuMont's last broadcast and its only color telecast, a high school football championship game held on Thanksgiving in 1957.
In 1956, he moved to CBS Sports, where he continued to call Giants games, along with boxing, Triple Crown horse racing and The Masters golf tournament, among other events. Along with Chuck Thompson, Schenkel called the 1958 NFL Championship Game for NBC. He was the voiceover talent for the first NFL Films production ever made, the 1962 NFL Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants.
ABC Sports hired Schenkel in 1965, and there he broadcast college football, Major League Baseball, NBA basketball, golf and tennis tournaments, boxing, auto racing, and the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. He became widely known for covering professional bowling, mainly for the Professional Bowlers Association (with the program becoming known as the Professional Bowlers Tour). He covered bowling from the early 1960s until 1997, as it became one of ABC's signature sports for Saturday afternoons.
Chris Schenkel also did play-by-play (with Bud Wilkinson providing color commentary) for the legendary 1969 Texas vs. Arkansas football game, known as the "Game of the Century", culminating the first 100 years of College Football in 1969. The game, also known as the "Big Shootout", garnered a share of 52.1, meaning that more than one half of the televisions in the United States were tuned in. Years later, Schenkel said "it was the most exciting, most important college football game I ever televised".
Schenkel went on to broadcast many more huge games, including the celebrated Nebraska-Oklahoma match on Thanksgiving Day 1971, as well as the Sugar Bowl national championship showdown between Notre Dame and Alabama on New Year's Eve 1973 (with Wilkinson and Howard Cosell, in a rare college football appearance). Schenkel was replaced by Keith Jackson as ABC's lead play-by-play man for college football telecasts in 1974, but continued to call college football games for several more years.
In 1976, Schenkel was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in the "Meritorious Service" category and in 1988 was inducted into the American Bowling Congress (now United States Bowling Congress) Hall of Fame, he was inducted in 1981 in the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.
He was named National Sportscaster of the Year four times, and in 1992 received a lifetime achievement Emmy Award. Also in 1992, the Pro Football Hall of Fame presented Schenkel with its Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. In 1999, he received the Jim Thorpe Lifetime Achievement Award.
In a 2009 vote by its members, the American Sportscasters Association ranked Schenkel 25th on its list of the Top 50 Sportscasters of All-Time.
Larry Gelbart
➦In 2009...Producer, screenwriter Larry Gelbart died from cancer at age 81. Drafted shortly after World War Two, Gelbart worked for the Armed Forces Radio Service in Los Angeles.
Gelbart began as a writer at the age of sixteen for Danny Thomas's radio show after his father, who was Thomas's barber, showed Thomas some jokes Gelbart had written. During the 1940s Gelbart also wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope. In the 1950s, his most important work in television involved writing for Red Buttons, for Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, and in Celeste Holm's Honestly, Celeste!, as well as with writers Mel Tolkin, Michael Stewart, Selma Diamond, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Woody Allen on two Caesar specials.
In 1972, Gelbart was one of the main forces behind the creation of the television series M*A*S*H, writing the pilot (for which he received a "Developed for Television by __" credit); then producing, often writing and occasionally directing the series for its first four seasons, from 1972 to 1976. M*A*S*H earned Gelbart a Peabody Award and an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series and went on to considerable commercial and critical success.
Cumulus Media announces that its new all-sports radio station in Washington, DC, WSBN ESPN 630-The Sports Capitol, debuted the Tony Kornheiser Show Tuesday from Noon-1:00pm.
Veteran sports personality Tony Kornheiser welcomes a cast of regulars and local guests to the show Monday through Friday in the city where Kornheiser made his name as a sportswriter for the Washington Post and as a popular radio and television host. Kornheiser joins a stellar lineup on ESPN 630 that includes local sports veterans Bram Weinstein, Andy Pollin, and Carol Maloney, and ESPN personalities Stephen A. Smith, Mike Golic and Trey Wingo.
Kornheiser said: “I’m tremendously excited to be heard once again each day in the town where I live, and on a radio frequency I’ve listened to for forty years.”
Bill Hess, Program Director, Cumulus Washington, DC, said: “Tony is a legend on sports radio in DC and we’re thrilled to be his new home. With Tony at Noon, followed by ESPN’s The Stephen A. Smith Show at 1:00pm, ESPN 630 has the best one-two midday punch in town!”
Tony Kornheiser is co-host of Pardon the Interruption (PTI) and is one of ESPN’s most popular on-air personalities. The former Washington Post sportswriter and columnist also worked as an ESPN Radio host and Monday Night Football commentator.
Kornheiser and his former Post sports colleague Michael Wilbon have co-hosted PTI (M-F, 5:30 p.m.) since the show’s debut on September 22, 2001. Highlighted by the type of contentious but good-natured verbal sparring that the two engaged in for years at the Post, PTI ranks among cable’s most-viewed studio shows. With its unique, fast-paced, wide-ranging and humorous discussion of the day’s top sports news, it is also one of television’s most entertaining and innovative programs.
This marks the first time that The Tony Kornheiser Show, a daily podcast and exclusive partnership between leading premium podcast company Cadence13 and Tony Kornheiser, will air on terrestrial radio.
Cox Media Group, owner of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other major radio outlets, is planning roughly 87 layoffs at its campuses in the Dunwoody and Sandy Springs sections of Perimeter Center., according to reporternewspapers.net.
The layoffs are reportedly management-level. That property has a redevelopment plan in the works, but the layoffs apparently are not related to any major real estate changes. The company employs thousands, so the number of layoffs is relatively small.
As reported by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Cox Media Group on Aug. 29 filed a notice about the planned layoffs with the Georgia Department of Labor. The filing says the company is “transitioning its facilities” in Atlanta specifically.
Parent company Cox Enterprises this year sold most of its media empire – including the flagship WSB TV and radio stations, but not the AJC – to a new company that is retaining the Cox Media Group name and using some of the same offices. Cox Enterprises continues to have a stake in the business.
The source said that the layoffs were not a surprise and that they are “not expected to impact the AJC newsroom.”
Still up in the air is the long-term home for that newsroom, which moved from downtown Atlanta to Dunwoody in 2010.
CMG President Kim Guthrie will remain with the company and take on the CEO title, and Bill Hendrich is staying put as Executive VP of Radio after the transaction is completed.
The Dept. of Justice has approved Apollo’s purchase of the radio group. In order to comply with FCC ownership limits, two stations—alternative “97X” WSUN in Tampa and CHR “Power 95.3” WPYO in Orlando—will be placed in the Elliot Evers-run CXR Stations Trust for sale.
JVC Media launched Florida Man Radio launched Monday afternoon on WDYZ 660 AM and W288CJ 105.5 FM.
“The point is the city of Orlando has a choice in talk radio,” PM host Shannon Burke told The Orlando Sentinel. “I’m talking about real, spoken word, just real talk radio,” he added, an obvious swipe at iHeartMedia's WTKS Real Radio 104.1, his former employer.
“We’re not going to be afraid to talk about anything,” said fellow host Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, who will handle morning drive. “I think this is going to be some of the most polarizing radio that Orlando has had in a long time.”
From the beginning, the content on Florida Man Radio was a freewheeling conversation about how the men might be portrayed. “Two scumbag radio hosts have moved back to the city to sully our streets,” Burke suggested.
“I had a great career in the city before I screwed it up,” Burke said. He shot his wife’s dog in April 2009 in what he said was an accident, and the bullet grazed his wife’s head. The wife and dog recovered, but Burke lost his job at Real Radio 104.1 and served about four months in the Seminole County Jail for the shooting.
Burke returns to Orlando following a few years at Atlanta’s NewsRadio WYAY 106.7, which recently changed formats to contemporary Christian music. Burke, who has remarried, said he never left Orlando because his wife works here. Listeners can expect the personal from him.
Bubba and Burke
Burke told The Orlando Sentinel not a lot of companies would hire the two men. “The format is dangerous,” he said. “You either fluff it up and make it nice or you strangle it down till you don’t talk about certain topics because we don’t want to be on the news.”
Burke stressed his fears about censorship. “It’s not illegal to be politically incorrect yet,” he said. “I’ve always said at some point the First Amendment will go away when offending someone becomes a crime.”
Bubba was equally frank. “We’re in the business to offend some people. I think that’s what our mind set is,” said Bubba, who recently worked at WHBO-AM 1040 in Tampa.
“He’s the star of the station,” Bubba said of Burke. “They spent all their money on Shannon, then they pretty much got me for nothing.”
iHeartMedia's Fox Sports KGME 910 AM has already parted company with sports talker Dan Sileo.
Sileo began his 4-7 p.m. show on Tuesday but by Friday night, his Twitter account was scrubbed and his show no longer was listed on Fox Sports 910’s website, according to theathletic.com.
Fox Sports 910 announced Sileo’s hiring on its website on Aug. 29. Shortly after the announcement, The Athletic published a story noting that Sileo had been fired three times by Florida radio stations in an 18-month span from 2012-13 for racist or sexist comments on air or on his personal Twitter account.
The Athletic reached out multiple times to Fox Sports 910 program director Aaron Trimmer for comment, but Trimmer’s only response was an e-mail in which he wrote, “I got your request. I will be back in touch.”
Apparently, Sileo’s hiring did not sit well with the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes, who recently signed a contract to move their games to KGME for the upcoming season, were not happy with the hiring of Sileo. The club issued a statement:
"When we became aware that Fox Sports 910 had hired Dan Sileo, we immediately reached out to the station’s management to express our deep concern regarding Mr. Sileo’s abhorrent comments. Our promotion of inclusivity is deeply rooted into the fabric of who we are as an organization and we have no tolerance for racism, sexism, anti-Semitism or any other discriminatory behavior.'
iHeartMedia/Hartford has announced Joey Brooks has been named Senior Vice President of Programming for the Hartford and New Haven markets.
He will report to Steve Honeycomb, President, iHeartMedia, Hartford Region.
Joey Brooks
"Joey's experience of leadership, drive and passion for radio will be an amazing addition to our iHeartMedia teams in Hartford and New Haven," said Honeycomb. "There is no doubt that Joey will take our nine market-leading radio brands to the next level as we continue to provide the best entertainment for our listeners."
Brooks joins the iHeartMedia Connecticut market from iHeartMedia Miami, where he served as Program Director for 939 MIA, Variety From the 80s, 90s and Today! and Assistant Program Director for Y100, Miami's #1 Hit Music Station. He also served as the Music Director for CHUM Toronto from 2009-2012, Assistant Program Director at iHeart's WIOQ (Q102) Philadelphia from 2006-2009, and started his career as Air Personality for iHeart's KISS 108 Boston in 2001. In Hartford, he worked at WKSS (KISS 95.7) serving as Assistant Program Director, Music Director, and Air Personality from 2002-2006.
"I'm grateful for the opportunity to come back to Connecticut and help lead such an amazing group of legendary stations that are full of heritage and great talent," said Brooks. "iHeartMedia Connecticut has established an amazing track record of delivering great programming to our community and having fun while doing it. I can't wait to get started."
In radio, when a station that is supposed to play music isn't playing music, that's usually a big problem. But that is about to be done on purpose when Radio One stations in Indianapolis stop the music to talk about suicide prevention and mental health, according to RTV6.
Tuesday is World Suicide Prevention Day, and Radio One Indianapolis wants to get rid of the stigma surrounding mental health by turning off the music from 10 a.m. to noon and talking about the warning signs.
In broadcasting, it is said those behind the mic have a duty beyond entertaining, to inform and serve. That's a mission Radio One regional vice president Deon Levingston is making priority one when his five Indianapolis stations stop normal programming to talk about an issue hitting black and brown families especially hard.
"For World Suicide Prevention and Awareness Day we are gonna stop the music for two hours. Suicide is impacting teenagers, young adults, the Hispanic and African-American Community at alarming rates and we're going to address it," Levingston said.
What you hear on your favorite radio station will sound a little different Tuesday. The five stations, WTLC 106.7 FM, AM-1310/92.7 The Light, Radio Now 100.9, Hot 96.3, La Grande 105.1 and Telemundo will all host a discussion many families tend to shy away from.
"The stigma in the African-American and Latino community is real," Levingston said. "And as people are addressing more and more mental health issues we have to break through that stigma so people realize its OK to talk to a counselor. It's OK to tell people this is happening in your life."
In honor of National Recovery Month, NewsTalk WPRO 99.7 FM & 630 AM, The Voice of Southern New England, announces a day of broadcasts aimed at confronting the Opioid Crisis, and how it affects Rhode Island and Southern New England.
Enough: WPRO’s Opioid Awareness Day airs on Friday, September 13th, starting at 6am during The News with Gene Valicenti, and runs through The Tara Granahan Show, The Matt Allen Show, The Dan Yorke Show, and The Gresh Show.
“As the opioid crisis continues to threaten the state of Rhode Island, WPRO understands that we have a responsibility to use our voice and our platform to discuss this terrifying epidemic,” states WPRO and CUMULUS MEDIA Market Manager Holly Paras. “I am proud to be part of a station that understands this responsibility and is bringing this difficult but critically important conversation to the community.”
WPRO and its programs have partnered with many of Southern New England’s most trusted organizations and businesses to bring listeners personal stories of addiction and recovery, information about city and state programs designed to help, and the physical and physiological effects of opioids which lead to the addiction.
Guests will include former Boston Celtics player Chris Herren, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo and First Gentleman Andy Moffit, mental health advocate and former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, recovery advocate John Tassoni, leaders from industries affected by the crisis, first responders, and more.
WPRO thanks its partners in this project – BHLink.net, BuildRI, Alkermes Pharmaceuticals, Lincoln Prevention Coalition & Lincoln Police Department, and CharterCare Health Partners.
Enough: WPRO’s Opioid Awareness Day airs on Friday September 13th on NewsTalk 99.7 FM & AM 630 WPRO.
Herring Networks, Inc., an independent, family owned national cable television programming company based in San Diego, California, filed a defamation lawsuit in the United States District Court, Southern District of California, against Defendants Rachel Maddow, Comcast Corporation, NBC Universal Media, LLC, and MSNBC Cable LLC.
The Complaint seeks damages in excess of $10,000,000.
Herring Networks owns and operates One America News Network (“OAN”), a news channel providing Americans with a conservative alternative to the major liberal news outlets. The Complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry OAN as part of its cable programming because OAN counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC.
The Complaint further alleges that one week after OAN’s President, Charles Herring, called out and objected to Comcast’s anti-competitive censorship in an email to Comcast’s President of Content Acquisition, MSNBC’s most popular show—The Rachel Maddow Show—opened with the show’s host, Rachel Maddow, telling her audience that OAN “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
OAN asserts that Defendants knew this statement was false and that they acted maliciously and recklessly in making it. The Complaint alleges that the statement was meant to damage OAN’s business and reputation because OAN, unlike MSNBC, presents a conservative viewpoint; and that OAN was targeted in retaliation for calling out Defendants for their anti-competitive censorship in refusing to carry OAN on its cable system.
OAN is represented by Skip Miller, a partner at Miller Barondess, LLP in Los Angeles stated “One America is wholly owned, operated and financed by the Herring family in San Diego. They are as American as apple pie. They are not paid by Russia and have nothing to do with the Russian government. This is a false and malicious libel, and they’re going to answer for it in a court of law.”
LBI Media has announced that its morning drive radio show “Don Cheto Al Aire,” heard on KBUE 105.5 FM, has tied for the #1 spot among Adults 18-34 in Los Angeles total market regardless of language. 1
According to the August 2019 Nielsen Audio Ratings Report Survey in Los Angeles, Don Cheto also ranked as the #1 morning drive (M-F 6a-10a) radio show among Spanish-language radio stations in Los Angeles with Hispanic Adults 18-34, and tied for #1 with Hispanic Adults 18-49 and 25-54.
KBUE-FM also topped Midday in the Los Angeles Metro area among Spanish-language radio stations, ranking #1 M-F 10a-3p with Hispanic Men 18-34. 2
“We are committed to offering the best entertainment and radio content to our loyal listeners every hour and every day of the year. We owe our success to them and to the hard work that our team puts in every time they walk into the radio booth. With great success comes great responsibility, so we will continue striving to provide our listeners with the quality programming they deserve,” stated Pepe Garza, programming director, La Que Buena Radio (KBUE-FM).
The morning show revamped its production team and format in 2016, and added two new sidekicks: Gisselle Bravo and El Chino, as well as Said Garcia Solis, who aside from being the show’s producer, also acts as an on-air personality. These changes have contributed to the show’s steady growth in ratings and popularity. “Don Cheto Al Aire” is a family friendly radio show with universal appeal among Hispanics of all ages, genders and lifestyles. The show covers a gamut of topics that range from news headlines, current events to human interest stories, games and contests, all done in a humorous and culturally relevant format.
Don Cheto is a widely admired and hilarious Latin radio personality that brings his extensive and colorful life experience in both Mexico and the United States to millions of listeners. His rural Mexican style, heritage and language idioms keep listeners tuned in as he delivers non-stop entertainment and comic relief while tackling current events affecting the Latino community in the U.S.
1 Source: Nielsen Audio, LA Metro, August 2019, ranked by Average Rating. 2 Source: Nielsen Audio Research, Los Angeles Metro, August 2019 PPM
Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. has announce the appointment of Eduardo Maytorena as Local Sales Manager of the Los Angeles market, KLAX-FM 97.9FM La Raza and KXOL-FM Mega 96.3FM.
Maytorena will lead the Company’s LA-based sales teams across Radio, Digital and Experiential Marketing. In this role, Mr. Maytorena will work closely with clients in the greater Los Angeles area to help them engage our audience and implement effective advertising and sales strategies to meet evolving market trends. Mr. Maytorena will continue to be based in Los Angeles and will report to Rachel Elster, SVP Sales West & Alessandra Alarcon, President of SBS Entertainment/LA.
Most recently, Eduardo served as Senior Account Executive leading advertising sales in Los Angeles for SBS since May 2018. Previously, he served as a Partner for Mezcalifornian Films as Co-Writer, Director and Producer of independent feature films. From 2010 to 2018 he served as Creative Sales Director of Radio Centro 93.9FM, as well as the Creative Sales & Marketing Director of Hoy Newspaper. Mr. Maytorena is an accomplished executive with 15 years of media experience. Exceptional work ethic, combined with relentless desire to win, has fueled consistent gains in revenue, profit and market share throughout his career.
“Eduardo is the consummate ad sales executive and one of the most driven and creative leaders on our Sales team in Los Angeles. He’s a professional of the business who comes to the role with passion and deep experience that will elevate how we serve our clients in the area. Los Angeles is a highly competitive market and Eduardo is the kind of Sales leader our team needs to meet the rapidly changing advertising landscape,” said Albert Rodriguez, COO of SBS. “His understanding of our diverse audience will ensure we continue to push barriers while delivering strategic results to make a lasting difference with our clients.”
"I am beyond excited for this opportunity and look to continue using my experience and relentless drive to grow shares while working alongside the great team and family that we have at SBS LA," stated Eduardo Maytorena.
AT&T rallied Monday after Elliott Management announced it owns $3.2 billion in the underperforming telecom giant’s stock and said in a letter that it hopes to help the company trim unneeded assets.
According to CNBC, the hedge fund said it sent a letter to the company’s board and argued for ways AT&T can “improve its business and realize a historic increase in value.”
The activist investor said its AT&T stock purchase is one of the firm’s largest investments ever. Elliott also believes that AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson’s exit is on the table and thinks that the telecom company will engage and settle soon, people familiar with the situation told CNBC.
In response to the hedge fund’s letter, AT&T said its management team and Board of Directors “maintain a regular and open dialogue with shareholders and will review Elliott Management’s perspectives in the context of the company’s business strategy.”
“We look forward to engaging with Elliott. Indeed, many of the actions outlined are ones we are already executing today,” AT&T said in a statement. “AT&T’s Board and management team firmly believe that the focused and successful execution of our strategy is the best path forward to create long-term value for shareholders.”
But Elliott’s new stake, as well as its doubts about Time Warner, drew praise from President Donald Trump, a longtime critic of the CNN parent.
Great news that an activist investor is now involved with AT&T. As the owner of VERY LOW RATINGS @CNN, perhaps they will now put a stop to all of the Fake News emanating from its non-credible “anchors.” Also, I hear that, because of its bad ratings, it is losing a fortune.....
Much as they were four years ago, the Big Three evening newscasts continue to be obsessed with Donald Trump. According to Newsbusters, the network newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC pounding Trump incessantly with highly-negative coverage.
However, the networks’ fixation on Trump left comparatively little airtime for his would-be presidential challengers.
From June 1 through August 31, MRC analysts found the networks devoted 838 minutes of airtime — nearly 14 hours — to coverage of President Trump personally, the vast majority of which was negative. (Note: This report only examines coverage of Trump himself, not generic stories about his administration’s activities or those of other top-ranking officials, which accounted for an additional 213 minutes of evening news airtime.)
The airtime devoted to Trump was eleven times greater than that spent on the leading Democratic candidate.
