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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Saturday Aircheck: WFIL 56 & WIBG 99 Philly - 1970-1983
Includes George Michael, Long John Wade, Don Wade, John
Records Landecker, Don Cannon, Chuck Knapp, Hy Lit, Joe Niagra, Tony Mann, Dick
Fennessy, & Jim Nettleton.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Man With Horsehead Crashes TWC’s Jim Cantore
World-Herald photos |
But somebody wearing a horse head was.
According to Paul Hammel at the World-Herald, while Cantore
did a live report Thursday afternoon amid the wind-whipped snow at 10th and Q
Streets in Lincoln ,
a man wearing a costume horse head walked into the background of the shot,
waving and posing.
The man in the horse head cantered off before a reporter
could catch his identity.
Cantore, who is based in Atlanta , is famous for his live reporting for
the Weather Channel as hurricanes make landfall, tornadoes approach, and
blizzards dump snow.
NYC Radio: Jockless Days At NashFM 94.7 To End
Kelly Ford |
Starting Monday, Kelly Ford, a 20-year vet at KYGO Denver, will handle mid-days.
She’ll be followed in PM Drive by Jesse Addy, who was at Cumulus’ WDVD-FM in Detroit.
She’ll be followed in PM Drive by Jesse Addy, who was at Cumulus’ WDVD-FM in Detroit.
Jesse Addy |
Although WNSH-94.7 probably won't be the only place where
Kelly Ford and Jesse Addy will be heard, New York Market Manager Kim Bryant
stated in a recent interview that Nash FM will not be part of a national
network.
Announcements concerning the morning show and evening on
NashFM should be made soon.
Study: Radio/TV Scores Well For Sandy Coverage
2013 Hurricane Sandy
Responsiveness Study Released
Overall, state governments and electric utilities provided
more effective responsiveness and handling of the 2012 Hurricane Sandy
emergency than did local and federal governments, according to the J.D. Power
and Associates 2013 Hurricane Sandy Responsiveness Study released Thursday.
The study is based on interviews of more than 5,900 U.S.
residential customers in 31 utility territories impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
The online survey was conducted from January 4 to January 11, 2013. Overall
responsiveness is measured by examining three areas across electric utilities
and local, state, and federal governments: preparedness for the hurricane;
efforts to support hurricane recovery; and effectiveness of communications.
Obtaining timely outage information is critical to utility
customers. Customers received most of their information regarding the outage by
calling their utility directly (37%); listening to radio or watching TV (29%);
and going directly to their utility's website (17%). Nearly three-fourths (71%)
of customers who made contact with their utility during the outage used their
mobile cellphone or smartphone. Satisfaction is highest among customers who say
they received proactive outbound communications, in which their utility sent
emails, text messages or outbound phone calls.
Hurricane Sandy 's damage is
estimated at $50 billion and is considered the second-costliest hurricane in U.S. history.
Rochester Radio: Com, Non-com Team For News Coverage
WXXI 1370 AM (5kw) and WDKX 103.9 FM (800w) in Rochester,
N.Y., are very different stations serving very different audiences — and that’s
a big reason that their unusual seven-year partnership continues to yield
winning results for both broadcasters.
The public broadcaster, WXXI, first approached the
commercial radio station, WDKX, in 2006 to team up on covering a mayoral race
in the city. Since then, according to a story at current.org, the two have continued to collaborate on examining
race, politics, education and other community issues in a partnership that
amplifies the voice of both stations and boosts their newsgathering
capabilities.
At first glance, the two seem to be unlikely partners. WXXI
operates both TV and radio stations; it airs news and public affairs on its AM
signal for an audience that’s 81 percent white and 16 percent African-American.
The locally owned WDKX airs mainly hip-hop and R&B for an audience that’s
60 percent African-American and younger than WXXI’s. It frequently is among the
top-rated stations in the city.
But by partnering, WXXI has been able to get its news
coverage and personalities in front of WDKX’s audience, who otherwise might not
tune in for public radio fare. And WDKX has boosted the local news on its
airwaves by drawing on the resources and connections of WXXI’s bigger news team.
Ingraham On Scarborough’s Disdain For Talk Radio
May stem from his own 2010 radio ‘cancellation’
On her Thursday program, conservative talker Laura Ingraham
struck back at MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough and others who want to
blame talk radio for 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s presidential
election loss, suggesting that Scarborough’s anger may be linked to his radio
show getting cancelled in 2010.
“You got to have leaders that will turn out against the
crazies in your own party,” Scarborough said Thursday morning according to The Daily Caller, “and if you do — you start winning those middle, those swing
voters.”
Scarborough, along with others on his program Thursday,
attacked certain elements in the conservative movement, including talk radio.
That has been a constant theme of his MSNBC program dating back to President
Barack Obama’s re-election victory last November, including earlier this week
when Scarborough tied conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Fox News to
a string of lost presidential elections.
Ingraham explained that Romney’s appearances on her show
were sparse and said that suggested that his campaign had attempted to distance
itself from talk radio, as opposed to embracing it.
Bakersfield Radio: Talker Ralph Bailey Quits KNZR
Ralph Bailey |
Talk radio host Ralph Bailey resigned without warning Thursday from his afternoon show on KNZR 1560 AM, among the top-rated stations in the local market.
Jennifer Self at bakersfieldcalifornian.com reports, Bailey
could not be reached for comment moments after a posting on his Facebook page
announced his departure, but local Buckley Radio General Manager Mary Lou Gunn
confirmed Bailey resigned, adding that she wishes him well.
"He was a huge part of the success of the radio
station," Gunn said of Bailey's nine-year tenure with Buckley. "He
will be hard to replace."
Bailey's Facebook posting:
"It was with a heavy heart that I tendered my resignation to Buckley Radio today. However, future opportunities and challenges make it virtually impossible not to seek out new adventures. I would like to thank Steve Darnell, Kathy Baker and posthumously Rick Buckley. To my colleagues, I hope I was a team player who made the station and the client top priority and someone who grasped the concept of pulling on one side of the rope. To my sponsors, I hope I played a small role in your success and thank you for your support! And to my listeners, (and you know I'm blubbering like a baby, by now) you gave me a voice in this community! I pray you will travel with me wherever I go!!! Thank you all!! It's been an incredible ride!!!!"
Shortly after 3 p.m., at the scheduled start of Bailey's
radio program, fellow KNZR radio host Jaz McKay and producer Tony Whitnack
announced Bailey was no longer with the station.
McKay, whose noon-to-3 p.m. program served as the lead-in to
Bailey's show, said he noticed a change in his colleague's demeanor in the last
week or so and noted Bailey missed two shows last week.
McKay speculated that Bailey might be poised to change
careers or could be headed to arch-rival radio station KERN, owned by American
General Media.
NYC Radio: Reunion Of Country WHN Staff Planned
Ed Salamon |
It's been a good couple of weeks for country music fans.
First, they got a full-time station back, Nash-FM (94.7).
And now, WFDU-FM (89.1) will host an on-air reunion of the WHN-AM
(1050) air staff to mark the 40th anniversary of WHN switching to a country
format in 1972. The event is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Tuesday,
February 26, according to Ray Edel at northjersey.com.
The broadcast will also be available via streaming audio, Click Here.
The New York station was country for 15 years, and during
that period it became the most listened-to country radio station of all time.
Radio personalities reuniting on air will include Country
Radio Hall-of-Famer and Sirius on-air personality Lee Arnold, WCBS-FM (101.1)
morning personality Dan Taylor, Mike Fitzgerald and Jessie Scott. Gene Ladd
will do the news, just like in the 1970s. Former WHN music director Pam Green
will schedule the music and former program director Ed Salamon will oversee the
event.
On Monday, Salamon's book "WHN: When New York City Went
Country" will be released by Archer Books.
WHN staff will gather for a panel discussion at 6 p.m. Monday at
Hill Country Live, 30 W. 26th St., Manhattan. Admission is free and the public is invited.
Eugene Radio: ‘Donkey Show’ Suit Fails In Court
It took a jury less than two hours Thursday to reject all
claims in a lawsuit filed by a former KFLY-FM 101.5 FM Eugene, OR radio
personality who claimed that he faced such intense verbal abuse on “The Donkey
Show” that he was forced to quit.
According to Greg Bolt at The Register-Guard, the jury of
eight women and four men took less than two hours to decide against former radio
personality Michael Fleming on all counts and awarded no damages.
Fleming had charged that he was subjected to vitriolic and
demeaning verbal abuse while serving as an unpaid co-host of “The Donkey Show”
in 2011 and early 2012. He said the on-air insults created such a toxic work
environment that he feared for his safety and had no choice but to quit.
Attorneys for Fleming and Bicoastal Media, the company that
owns station KFLY-FM where “The Donkey Show” airs, spent about
three hours making their closing arguments Thursday morning. Mario Conte, the
attorney for Bicoastal, said Fleming failed to show that he was subjected to
discrimination, was demoted or was treated any differently from anyone else who
appeared on the program.
“All alleged discrimination happened on ‘The Donkey Show,’
including the alleged demotion. It was all part of the show,” Conte said in
e-mailed comments after the verdict was announced. “Mr. Fleming was a voluntary
participant in ‘The Donkey Show’ for over four years without ever complaining
to Bicoastal’s management.”
Conte said the insulting
banter on “The Donkey Show” essentially was part of a shtick aimed at
generating controversy. Yes, it was crude and crass, Conte said, but it was an
equal opportunity insulter.
Lewinter told jurors that the abuse went so far beyond
playacting or good-natured ribbing that it started to affect Fleming’s quality
of life and self-image. It forced him to seek counseling and caused weight
gain, loss of sleep and other physical effects.
The conflicts between Fleming and Chad 'Tanner' Haney became so tense that
they made Fleming fear for his safety, Lewinter said, particularly after the
episode involving the Super Bowl bet. That was when Fleming complained to a
supervisor about Haney, after which Haney made remarks on the air that Fleming
took as threats.
“It was a crude, crass show,” Conte said. “People were
called names and insulted on the air all the time.”
Toledo Radio: Andrew Z To Relaunch Show
Andrew Z |
“The ironic thing is the one car we have, the radio broke
the week after we got fired, I swear to God,” Zepeda told Srah Ottney at toledofreepress.com. “So I haven’t really listened to terrestrial radio since I
left. I don’t have the money to get it fixed. Actually I use my phone. That’s
what I use for all my entertainment now.”
Fittingly, Zepeda plans to relaunch “Andrew Z in the
Morning” on Feb. 25 via a free mobile app called Toledo’s APP Station.
The show will stream live 6:30-9:30 a.m. Monday
through Friday. Afterward, the show will replay on a loop all day. The show
will be the first Toledo radio station exclusively available via smartphone,
Zepeda said. The app is available for Android and will be available for iPhones
soon.
The show’s cast will feature familiar voices, including
Zepeda’s wife Michelle, Brandon Doriot, Calen Savidge and Corey W. King.
Zepeda said he is confident people will seek out the show
because “it is still the best show in Toledo.”
To start, the show will broadcast from Zepeda’s Perrysburg
home, but he hopes to find more sponsors and studio space soon. Zepeda also
alluded to another project in the works featuring more traditional media that
would be announced soon.
Zepeda said he was “blindsided” Dec. 26 when he was told
“Andrew Z in the Morning: The People’s Show” was being dropped by Cumulus
Media.
The firing came six days after Zepeda was sentenced to 30 days at the Wood County
Justice Center, with permission to apply for work release, and five years’
community control, including no bars or alcohol.
In October, Mayberry found Zepeda violated his intervention
in lieu of conviction by participating in a Sept. 13 celebrity charity boxing
match at which alcohol was served. The violation meant Zepeda was convicted of
three felony charges related to a 2010 break-in at his former business in
Perrysburg. An appeal is pending.
Hoops Ref Tries To Interrupt Play-By-Play
The old saying, "talk is cheap" took on a new
meaning during a regular season Atlantic 10 basketball game.
According to USAToday, Saint Louis play-by-play announcer
Bob Ramsey didn't agree with a foul called against the Billikens' Dwayne Evans
during Tuesday's game against VCU.
"They're going to call a cheap foul on Evans and I'll
tell you what," Ramsey started to say on the live broadcast. The referee
who made the call just so happened to overhear Ramsey's "cheap"
labeling and didn't take too kindly to the announcer's criticism, confronting
him live on the air.
The referee, Bo Borowski, probably wished he didn't start to
jaw with the WXOS 101.5 FM (ESPN) radio announcer, who didn't back down one
bit.
R.I.P. Lee Bayley Radio Ex, Former Tulsa Personality
Lee Bayley The 60s |
He was 73.
Bayley jumped to TV in 1965, when he joined KOTV as the host
of "Dance Party."
He hosted "Dance Party" from 1965 to 1970, before
heading to LA. He served as
VP/Programming & Operations for Drake-Chenault, Ops Dir. At American Independent
Radio and PD at Top 40 KIQQ. He also was
VP/GM at TM Programming.
LEE BAYLEY KAKC AIRCHECK: Click Here.
In January 1979, KAKC shocked the Tulsa radio market by
dropping Top 40 programming after 21 years for adult standards. A year later
the station was purchased by the owners of KCFO-FM (now KVOO-FM) which changed
the format to Southern Gospel music and Christian talk programming. In 1984 the
legendary 970 call letters were changed to KCFO-AM.
In 1985, KBBJ 1300 picked up the KAKC call letters. On April 16, 2007 KAKC changed their format
to sports, with programming from ESPN Radio.
His memorial service is Saturday.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Opinion: What Radio Can Learn From The Movies
Charlie Sislen |
Sislen writes in the 1980s when VCRs burst onto the scene people
could watch movies at home when they wanted. Many proclaimed this advancement
the death of the movie theater. People’s televisions have gone from a 19” tube
to a 60” high-definition flat screen with theater-like surround sound. There
are numerous commercial-free movie channels, and on-demand video is now
available to most Americans.
Anyone observing this phenomenon would conclude that the
movie theater business is dead. Why leave your home, pay for a ticket, and eat
overpriced snacks, when you can watch that same movie at home in just a few
short weeks in the comfort of your own home?
However, the reality is different. Box office receipts have
been on a steady rise, and saw their highest level ever in 2012. The 2012 growth was also significant since it
was achieved without an increase in average ticket price. (Source: Wall Street Journal)
So what did the movie industry do?
Simply put, according to Sislen, they invested in their product to create an
environment that people were willing to pay for.
So how does this relate to our industry?
Radio needs to upgrade the environment that our audience
experiences.
This is not only what comes out of the speakers; your audience must have a positive experience in all aspects of the radio station. This includes the station web experience and every time the station is out on the street.
This is not only what comes out of the speakers; your audience must have a positive experience in all aspects of the radio station. This includes the station web experience and every time the station is out on the street.
Radio needs to build and reinforce that local companionship
and be part of the community, which the others cannot offer. When they open up
the mic, personalities need to remind themselves that people come to them for
companionship, entertainment, and information.
Harrisburg Radio: Heritage WTPA To Keep Rockin’
For more than 32 years, WTPA-FM Harrisburg has been the classic rock
voice of Central Pennsylvania , but that
position came into doubt last year, when the station fell into trusteeship
following the 2011 merger of Cumulus Media and Citadel Broadcasting.
PennLive.com reports the station's trustee inked a deal with a new,
independent owner — Pat Garrett.
His message: 92.1 FM will keep on rocking, although they have a new website URL.
On-air personality Randy “Rock” Johnson will remain at WTPA,
alongside Kevin the Kid Beam and Bill Mulfair.
WTPA will be led by general manager Tim Michaels, who has 25
years of radio experience and received the Pennsylvania Broadcasters Award for
Excellence. Michaels replaces Chris Tyler, who is now the program director and
brand manager for Cumulus Newsradio 910 WSBA and Sportsradio 1440 in York .
Michaels and Garrett said WTPA will retain the classic rock
format, with a few minor changes.
CR&M Provides Look Into Chicago Ratings
Lars at Chicago Radio and Media again provides an excellent
breakdown of Arbitron Ratings in Chicago. The Arbitron ratings for the Chicago
radio market for the January period -- which covers the dates of
01/03/13-01/30/13 -- were released on Monday.
Persons
ages 25-54...
In the overall numbers (Monday-Sunday 6:00am-Midnight),
WTMX-FM jumps back into first place jumping up 1.6 share in four weeks time to
a 6.2 share -- the station's highest share since 2011. Second place goes to
WVAZ-FM, who improves .2 share to a 5.7 average. Third place is a two-way tie
between WOJO-FM and WUSN-FM, each with a 4.2 share. For WOJO-FM, that
represents a .4 drop, as fans seemed to have moved over to rival WNUA-FM. For
WUSN-FM, it is a .9 share increase from the month before. WDRV-FM/97.1 The
Drive drives back up to pre-holiday shape with a .6 increase in share to a 4.1
and moves back to fifth place.
CR&M notes increases for the January ratings period
include WNUA-FM, which is now up to #7 and a 3.9 share. This marks the highest
ratings the station has seen in this demographic since flipping to a
Spanish-language format almost four years ago. WSCR-AM gains more strength
moving up to a tie at #8 and a 3.7 share. WXRT-FM gains .6 and is back up to a
3.3 share, now ranked at #13.
Of course, the biggest decrease in ratings and share belongs
to WLIT-FM. The post-holiday blues for the station has it dropping from its
year-high of a 10.3 share and a #1 ranking to only a 2.9 share and a ranking of
#14.
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Tom's Take: WLS-FM has dropped to a tie at #16 with a 2.6 share 6+. The Classic Hits station has a 4.1 share at this time last year. WLS-FM needs to un-muzzle legendary talent.
Tom's Take: WLS-FM has dropped to a tie at #16 with a 2.6 share 6+. The Classic Hits station has a 4.1 share at this time last year. WLS-FM needs to un-muzzle legendary talent.
WCBS-TV Anchor Resigns After Arrest
Rob Morrison, a news anchor for WCBS-TV in New York, said on
Wednesday that he had resigned from his job after his weekend arrest on charges
of choking his wife during a domestic dispute at their home in Darien, Conn.
According to Marc Santora at nytimes.com, after meeting with
WCBS executives on Wednesday, Morrison announced his decision to leave his
position, anchoring the morning and noon news programs. His wife, Ashley
Morrison, works as a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch.
Morrison’s decision came one day after he was arraigned
and charged with strangulation, threatening and disorderly conduct. He was
released on bail, but a judge in Connecticut ordered that Mr. Morrison, 44,
stay at least 100 yards away from his wife, except at work.
“My family is my first and only priority right now, and I have informed CBS2 management that I need to put all of my time and energy into making sure that I do what’s best for my wife and my son,” Mr. Morrison said in a statement. “I very much appreciate the opportunity that CBS2 has given me, and I thank them for accepting my decision.”
Clive Davis Responds to Kelly Clarkson
Music mogul Clive Davis has responded to Kelly Clarkson‘s
criticism of his new memoir, and her accusations that he is a liar, and that he
“bullied” her, “belittled” her music and called her a “shitty writer.”
In his new book “The Soundtrack of My Life,” Davis wrote
about how difficult Clarkson was to work with at the beginning of the career
and how “emotional” she was at times.
As anyone who has read “The Soundtrack of My Life” knows, I think Kelly Clarkson is a tremendous vocal talent and performer. In the book, I provide an in-depth look at our years together during which we shared major multi-platinum success, as well as a few creative differences. I am truly very sorry that she has decided to take issue with what I know to be an accurate depiction of our time together.
Before the book was published, I had every fact checked with five independent individuals who were present on a daily basis throughout it all. The chapter as it is written was thoroughly verified by each and every one of them. I stand by the chapter as written in my book. At the same time I wish, and will always wish, Kelly’s talent and her career to soar to ever new heights.
- Clive Davis
Howard Stern Slams Clive Davis
Howard Stern stood up for Kelly Clarkson on Wednesday,
slamming Clive Davis for comments he made about the “American Idol” alum in his
new memoir, “The Soundtrack of My Life.”
Study: Big Game Brand Name Recall Is Low
Despite unprecedented hype around television ads that ran
during this year’s Big Game, many viewers said they didn’t watch them – and
even when they did, consumer recall of brands advertising during the game was
uniformly low, according to a research study conducted by Nielsen Entertainment
for the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB).
Although the game brings out the advertising industry’s best
commercials, the results of the study show the limitations of television ads in
selling products and highlight the fact that sight, sound and motion can
distract from advertisers’ basic messages -- in contrast to radio, where the
audio message is more direct and personal and is not obscured by video or
picture.
While ad recall may have been as high as 57 percent, on
average, only 12 percent of viewers could recall the type of product being
advertised. Similarly, the brand was
recalled by only 14 percent of viewers, on average, but in several cases by
fewer than 1 in 10 viewers.
“The strength of radio’s unique audio delivery drives
product and brand recall,” stated Erica Farber, RAB President and CEO, “As
recent studies have proven, radio performs tremendously to extend brand awareness
established on TV and further, impacts product and brand awareness as a
stand-alone and when added to a TV campaign.”
CBS Radio Makes Fitzsimmons Director of Music Initiatives
Chad Fitzsimmons |
Working with the Company’s nearly 85 major market music
radio stations, its array of digital assets, and CBS’s owned television
stations across the country, Fitzsimmons will develop and launch a variety of
unique partnership opportunities for record labels to promote today’s most
popular artists and up-and-coming musicians to millions of music fans across
the country. In addition, he will create
exclusive one-of-a-kind experiences that allow listeners to engage directly
with their favorite artists.
Fitzsimmons will report to Greg Strassell, Senior Vice
President, Programming, CBS RADIO, while also working closely with the entire
senior programming leadership team, and Helen Leisengang, Vice President,
Integrated Marketing and Special Events.
He will be based in Los Angeles .
“We’re delighted to name Chad to this exciting new position
which will maximize exposure for artists on our stations, and elevate our
ability to execute larger than life programs across the full spectrum of our
portfolio,” said Strassell.
“Chad has
worked on some of the most highly regarded music events, including CBS RADIO’S
pre-GRAMMY concert held at the famed GRAMMY
Museum , and was instrumental in
creating the Red Bull Sound Space at KROQ and AMP Radio in Los Angeles .
He knows what it takes to drive the best results for an artist using the
powerful platform of radio.”
“Strengthening radio and records symbiotic relationship has
countless benefits – the most important being what these new initiatives will
provide for the fans,” said Dan Mason, President and CEO, CBS Radio.
“We’ve had very creative meetings with labels and artist
management as of late, and we look forward to continuing the two way dialogue,
bringing to bear the full resources of CBS Radio.”
Billboard Includes YouTube Metrics For Hot 100 Chart
From Ben Sisario, NYTimes:
This week the Billboard Hot 100, the magazine’s 55-year-old singles chart, takes a evolutionary step by incorporating YouTube plays into its formula. The move comes just in time for Baauer’s song “Harlem Shake,” the latest viral video phenomenon, which will make its debut at No. 1 this week thanks to the change.
“Harlem Shake,” a bass-heavy hip-hop track with no lyrics beyond a few samples, got little mainstream attention when it was released in May as a free download. But this month its popularity exploded on YouTube, as thousands of fans uploaded videos of themselves dancing — some might say simply flailing — along to the song. By last week more than 4,000 videos were going up each day.
Download sales and Spotify streams of the track also skyrocketed. But the remarkable trajectory of “Harlem Shake” led Billboard to move forward right away on its methodology update, something it had been in discussions with YouTube about for nearly two years, Bill Werde, the magazine’s editorial director, said on Wednesday.
Nash Bash Pleases NYC Country Fan
Photos from the Night 3 Finale at the Roseland Ballroom.
Top Darius Rucker performs, left: Kix Brooks, Center & Right: The Henningsens.
Tom's Take: Nash 94.7 should have aired their 'coming out' party.
Top Darius Rucker performs, left: Kix Brooks, Center & Right: The Henningsens.
Tom's Take: Nash 94.7 should have aired their 'coming out' party.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Robin Roberts Returns To GMA
Robin Roberts, the "Good Morning America" anchor whose medical battles have kept her from the ABC show for months, returned to her job on Wednesday.
Boston Radio: Official Mike Salk To WEEI
Mike Salk |
Salk helped grow the "Brock and Salk Show"
exponentially the last four years. As of this past September, the show ranked
No. 1 with the station's core demo of men 25-54. Salk also was a frequent
contributor to 710 ESPN's website and will do the same, in a variety of ways,
for WEEI.com. He also has been a part of the ESPN Radio network since 2007,
hosting "SportsCenter Saturday" and serving as a regular fill-in host
over the past few years.
Salk is no stranger to the Boston
sports talk radio scene, having worked at 890 ESPN Radio Boston from 2005 until 2009. He primarily
served as co-host of the station's midday show with Bob Halloran, and he also
was the station's Red Sox beat reporter, covering every game of the team's run
to the 2007 World Series.
"For a kid who grew up rooting for Boston 's sports teams, I can't wait to get
behind that microphone and connect with the most avid sports fans in the
country," Salk said. "From the best play-by-play in radio to their
breakthrough work with the Jimmy Fund, WEEI is still the gold standard in
sports talk radio.
Said Jason Wolfe, VP of Programming for Entercom Boston:
"Mike Salk has a proven record of success, and I couldn't be more excited
to bring him back home to Boston .
He's a very skilled broadcaster, a fun personality and a passionate sports fan.
I'm really looking forward to the new dynamic that he and Michael Holley will
provide on a daily basis."
Bobby Bones Show To Launch On 35 Stations
Premiere Networks, Tuesday announced that 35 country radio
stations will carry The Bobby Bones Show, which will launch nationwide Monday,
February 25.
As the affiliate count continues to rapidly expand, the
program, which transitioned from a CHR format and debuted on Nashville’s The
BIG 98/WSIX Monday, February 18, will launch in the following stations: WFUS-FM/Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL; KSD-FM/St. Louis, MO;
WCKY-FM/Findlay, OH; KWNR-FM/Las Vegas, NV; KASE-FM/Austin, TX; WCKT-FM/Ft.
Meyers-Naples, FL; KNST-FM/Tucson, AZ; KTGX-FM/Tulsa, OK; KBQI-FM/Albuquerque,
NM; KHEY-FM/El Paso, TX; KTOM-FM/Monterey-Salinas, CA; WAVW-FM/Ft. Pierce, FL;
WMAD-FM/Madison, WI; KSWF-FM/ Springfield, MO; WSTH-FM/Columbus GA;
KMFX-FM/Rochester, MN; KYKR-FM/Beaumont, TX; WTXT-FM/Tuscaloosa, AL;
WOBB-FM/Albany, GA and more.
The news was announced Tuesday during a press conference
hosted by The Big 98/WSIX at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s legendary Ford
Theater in Nashville.
To kick off the event Country star Brad Paisley shared a
special video message with Bones and revealed the national markets where The
Bobby Bones Show will launch on February 25. Paisley will also appear as Bones’
first guest, adding to the excitement of the syndication launch.
WSIX’s Amy Paige and The AntMan then hosted a Q&A
session with Bones, followed by special appearances from Country music stars
including Jake Owen, Gloriana, Joe Nichols, Craig Campbell, Jana Kramer, Josh
Thompson, Dustin Lynch, Parmalee, Brett Eldridge, Chris Janson, The Farm, Eric
Paslay, Jon Pardi, Charlie Worsham, Kristin Kelly, Greg Bates and Joel Crouse,
who all stopped by to give Bones and his co-hosts Lunchbox and Amy a warm
welcome.
Broadcasting live from WSIX in Nashville, The Bobby Bones
Show airs weekday mornings from 5 to 10 a.m. CT. and will also be available on
iHeartRadio.com and the iHeartRadio mobile app, Clear Channel’s all-in-one free
digital listening service.
Country Top 30 with Bobby Bones, a new four-hour weekend
country music program, will launch nationwide, the weekend of March 2 and 3.
Report: News Anchor Becomes Homicidal
Rob, Ashley Morrison |
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NYC TV anchorman Rob Morrison turned homicidal while in custody for choking his wife early Sunday, promising “he would kill” her once cops turned him loose.
WCBS-TV brass are livid that the “News at Noon” anchor lied
to them about how he bruised his face when he showed up for work on Monday,
according to the nydailynews.com.
He “misled station management and has made a horrible
situation even worse,” a source said.
Tuesday night, Morrison blamed his arrest on his
mother-in-law, whose 911 call from her home in Indiana
sent cops to his Connecticut
house to defuse the volatile situation.
“Don’t piss off your mother-in-law is the moral of the
story,” said Morrison, 44, Tuesday evening as he tried to relax listening to
the Grateful Dead’s “Attics of My Life.”
Morrison claimed he initially called his mother-in-law,
Martha Risk, hoping she could calm down him and his wife, fellow CBS anchor
Ashley Morrison.
Morrison said he and his wife began arguing after watching
the romantic comedy “Mystic Pizza,” starring Julia Roberts. He wouldn’t reveal
what sparked the fight other than to say it was a “basic disagreement that any
family would have.”
Report: S.O.B. To Leave CNN
Soledad O'Brien |
Page Six quotes a source as saying award-winning journalist
O’Brien has indicated she is ready to leave after she was initially promised a
plum prime-time slot, but that role has so far failed to materialize.
“The deal to move Erin to
the morning alongside Chris Cuomo is basically done. Soledad had been told she’d get a prime-time
slot, but that hasn’t yet happened, and now she is telling friends she is
likely to leave.”
The source added, “Soledad
is talented at producing in-depth, serious pieces of journalism, and is a tough
interviewer. That doesn’t seem to fit the direction the network is going.”
Another source added, “Soledad
is a big star, and would only stay for the right show. There’s word there will
be a flurry of announcements at CNN very soon, including Erin ’s
move to the morning.”
O’Brien jumped from NBC to CNN in 2003, anchoring “American
Morning,” and then moved on to anchoring specials. She’s anchored the current
morning show, “Starting Point,” since January of last year.
Report: Mindy McCready Feared Losing Kids
"A perfect storm" hit Mindy McCready in the days
before the country singer killed herself in the same spot where her boyfriend
had died five weeks earlier, reports CNN.
McCready, who burst onto the music scene in 1996 with the
chart-topping country hit "Guys Do It All the Time," suffered from
addiction that stalled her career. Her biggest notoriety in recent years came
from her participation in the 2009 season of the reality TV show "Celebrity
Rehab With Dr. Drew."
Private investigator Danno Hanks, who knew McCready for
several years and frequently advised her, said she called him Saturday, a day
before she died from what investigators have said was a self-inflicted gunshot.
"Saturday was a very bad day for her," Hanks said.
McCready, 37, told him about an e-mail she received on
Friday from the Arkansas Department of Human Services' Division of Children and
Family Services that included a proposed court order that would send her two
children to live with her mother in Florida .
"The proposed court order was the nail in her coffin,
the thing that sent her over the edge," Hanks said.
The Arkansas
agency declined to comment on the case, citing confidentiality laws.
CC Media Holdings Losses Rise to $191M 4Q
Radio and outdoor advertising giant CC Media Holdings Inc.
reported Tuesday that it lost $191 million in the last quarter of 2012 even as
sales increased.
Nolan Hicks at mysanantonio.com reports the company's net loss was significantly
worse than its results in the same period the year before, when it lost $43
million.
At the same time, CC Media Holdings' revenue increased 3
percent to $1.7 billion in the quarter, up from $1.65 million the year before.
“We are very pleased with our Company's progress in
strengthening our businesses over the past year, and we look forward to
continuing our momentum into 2013,” CC Media Holdings CEO Bob Pittman said in a
statement.
For all of 2012, the company posted a loss of $424 million,
compared to a $302 million loss in 2011.
The company has been struggling under a heavy debt load
since two capital investment firms, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital,
loaded the company up with more than $20 billion in debt as part the deal to
take the company private. The leveraged buyout closed in 2008, shortly before
the financial collapse that sent the U.S. economy spiraling.
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“Despite the slow economic recovery, we delivered a solid financial performance for the 2012 fourth quarter and full year,” Tom Casey, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, said. “At Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, we continued to outpace the competition in national advertising, digital, and total revenues. At Outdoor, theAmericas ’
progress in digital, airports and national advertising was encouraging, while
International saw strength in emerging markets. Across the entire company, we
remain aggressively focused on realigning our resources toward higher growth
areas.
“Despite the slow economic recovery, we delivered a solid financial performance for the 2012 fourth quarter and full year,” Tom Casey, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, said. “At Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, we continued to outpace the competition in national advertising, digital, and total revenues. At Outdoor, the
ESPN Set To Pass $7 Sub Fee In 2017
For help with its massive NFL rights bill and likely
re-upping with the NBA, ESPN can continue to count on hefty per-subscriber fees
that look to cross the monthly $7 mark in 2017. Based on distribution in 100 million
homes, that $7 amount would give it an annual take of about $8.4 billion in
affiliate fees alone within five years.
According to David Goetzel at mediapost.com, ESPN’s current
deal with Time Warner Cable calls for it to receive more than $5.40 a sub a
month starting in the middle of this year; then passing the $7 mark in 2017;
and closing in on the $7.50 mark the following year. The deal calls for an
annual increase in the 6.5% range.
By the end of this decade, ESPN is set to collect just about
$8 a sub a month.
Time Warner Cable serves 12 million homes, but if ESPN’s
deals with other operators follow the same general pricing model, total sub
fees covering 100 million homes should pass $9.5 million by the end of the
decade.
The details (which may have since been altered) of the Time
Warner Cable deal that was announced in September 2010 became public at a trial
Monday, where Dish Network is suing ESPN charging it with violating “most
favored nation (MFN)” agreements. MFN deals look to guarantee an operator the
same effective rates as other distributors.
But it is not as simple as if one operator pays $7 for ESPN,
another pays the same. The trial in New York federal court makes that
abundantly clear with ESPN witnesses offering insight into how operators can
choose various options, giving them what would amount to effectively the same
rate as what another pays.
Tom's Take: Everyone pays more for ESPN whether they watch or not. Keep this in mind when you pay your cable/sat bill this month.
ESPN Is Now Targeting Via Online Radio
As part of a companywide effort to up its digital ad game,
ESPN is looking to innovate in an area often shunned by tech advancements:
radio.
For the sports giant, the online radio and podcasting arms
of the business are surprisingly robust. According to adweek.com, the ESPN
Radio mobile app has registered over 3 million downloads while popular podcast
titles like Bill Simmons' B.S. Report have attracted tens of millions of
downloads over the years.
To take advantage of this audience, ESPN digital audio is
unveiling a dynamic cloud-based ad insertion program with the hope of targeting
listeners by device, location, age and gender in real time across live national
broadcasts.
The new technology, developed with online radio provider
Abacast, is a departure from the standard, static ad insertion platforms
available to online radio providers where ads must undergo somewhat cumbersome
coding and delivery processes.
Essentially, this means that during large radio broadcast
events like last month's BCS Championship game, during which ESPN Radio hosted
nearly 110,000 mobile audio streams, ESPN will be able to serve individual ads
to each one of those listeners during live breaks. While it may sounds obvious,
for online radio it is a first-of-its-kind technology for an industry largely
behind the times in digital ad technology.
Joe Garagiola To Announce Retirement From Broadcasting
Legendary broadcaster and former Major League catcher Joe
Garagiola will announce his retirement Wednesday after a 58-year television and
radio career, the last 15 of which were with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
According to Paul Casella at mlb.com, the team has scheduled a news conference to be held at Salt
River Fields at Talking Stick, the D-backs' training facility in Scottsdale,
Ariz, so that Garagiola, accompanied by Arizona president and CEO Derrick Hall,
can discuss his decision to retire from broadcasting.
Garagiola, who turned 87 last week, had an extensive
post-playing career that included stints as a regular panelist on NBC's
"The Today Show," multiple guest-hosting appearances on "The
Tonight Show" and hosting multiple game shows in the 1960s and '70s, along
with his prestigious baseball broadcasting career.
He was the 1991 winner of the Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford
C. Frick Award and was inducted into the Arizona Broadcasters Association's
Hall of Fame in 2010. Among his other honors, Garagiola received the Bud Selig
Award for lifetime achievement in the game of baseball in 2011.
Garagiola has associated with a number of legends throughout
his life, starting all the way back in St. Louis, Mo., where as a child he grew
up just a few doors down from future Hall of Famer Yogi Berra. The two both
made their Major League debuts in 1946, with Garagiola's Cardinals winning the
World Series that season. Berra, however, bested his childhood friend by
winning the title the following season and going on to win nine other World
Series as a player.
A left-handed hitter, Garagiola played nine seasons in the
Major Leagues, parts of six of them with the Cardinals, and finished with a
.257 batting average, 42 home runs and 255 RBIs in 676 games.
Upon his retirement as a player following the 1954 season,
Garagiola started calling Cardinals games on the radio alongside Harry Caray
and Jack Buck from 1955-62. Garagiola also worked with another legend, Vin
Scully, during part of his 30-year broadcasting tenure at NBC.
As NBC's No. 1 baseball broadcasting crew from 1983-88,
Garagiola and Scully called each Saturday's "Game of the Week," as
well as three All-Star Games, three National League Championship Series and
three Fall Classics.
FCC Chair Slated for Q&A At NAB Show
Julius Genachowski |
Genachowski will sit down for a conversation with NAB Joint Board Chair
Paul Karpowicz, president of Meredith Corporation - Local Media Group, on
Wednesday, April 10 at 9 a.m. in Las Vegas.
"NAB looks forward to hosting Chairman Genachowski at
the NAB Show once again to hear his views on current and future communications
issues before the Commission," said NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith.
"This session is sure to be informative for radio and TV broadcasters and
an excellent opportunity to learn about the regulatory issues shaping our
industry."
Genachowski was sworn in as FCC chairman in June 2009 after
spending more than ten years in the private sector as an executive and
entrepreneur in the technology industry.
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