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When it comes to their social media preferences, U.S. teens are about as loyal as Brutus was to Caesar. Back in 2013, Facebook was their social network of choice. In 2014, Instagram took the throne for a while before being replaced by Snapchat in 2016.
Now, in the spring of 2019, Snapchat is still the number 1 for teens in the United States, but Instagram is making up ground. According to the latest edition of PiperJaffray’s bi-annual “Taking Stock With Teens” survey, 41 percent of the roughly 8,000 teenagers polled named Snapchat their favorite social media platform, while 35 percent of the respondents picked Instagram as their platform of choice.
The popularity of Snapchat and Instagram clearly comes at the expense of Facebook and Twitter, which seem to be less and less appealing to the teenage demographic.
U.S. Senator Mark Warner, who co-sponsored legislation this week to ban deceptive practices by social media companies, said on Thursday he was eyeing additional bills aimed at limiting hate speech and allowing users to move their data across platforms.
According to Reuters, the Democratic lawmaker said he would offer more bills in the next month or two, ideally with Republican colleagues as a co-sponsor.
The additional legislation could focus on hate speech, data portability, which gives social media users the ability to easily take their data to another site, and transparency about who or what is on the other side of an internet conversation, Warner said in an interview with Reuters.
On Tuesday, Warner joined with Republican Senator Deb Fischer to introduce a bill to bar online platforms like Facebook Inc or Alphabet Inc’s Google from misleading people into giving personal data to companies, or otherwise tricking them.
It would also ban online platforms with more than 100 million monthly active users from designing addicting games or other websites for children under age 13.
Warner is eager to increase transparency on social media platforms.
“Shouldn’t we have the right to know whether we’re being contacted by a human being versus a bot when you’re on social media?” he said.
Issues of engagement and data collection are key for social media companies since they use information gathered about users to sell advertisements, a key source of profit.
On Sunday, May 5, 2019, The Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters (PAB) will induct Beasley Broadcast Group, LLC founder, George Beasley, into the PAB Radio Hall of Fame.
George Beasley, founded Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. in 1961 and served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company for a remarkable career that spanned more than five decades. A radio veteran, he has received numerous broadcast industry distinctions from various organizations, including “Giant of Broadcasting” by the Library of American Broadcasting in 2012, “Broadcaster of the Year” by the Florida Association of Broadcasters in 2011. Beasley was inducted into the Hall of Fame the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters in 1998, and the Nevada Broadcasters Association in 2008.
The PAB Gold Medal Dinner is followed by the PAB Awards Luncheon on Monday, May 6, where radio and television broadcasters from across the Commonwealth will be recognized for outstanding achievement in broadcast journalism, station promotion, digital media and more.
Longtime radio personality, Andy Preston has died one day after a single-vehicle crash in Lake Park, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
According to WPTV-TV5, 63-year-old Andrew Roe Preston was in the parking lot of a cafe Tuesday night and as he placed the vehicle in drive his longtime partner, Amy Woods, 51, attempted to get in the front passenger seat, investigators said.
The car accelerated knocking Woods to the ground, sideswiped another vehicle, traveled through the parking lot and struck a tree, the sheriff's office said.
When the vehicle stopped, Preston opened the door and fell and struck his head, PBSO said. He died one day later in a hospital, according to a traffic report.
Woods sustained a minor injury to her knee.
Preston started at WKGR 98.7 The Gater almost 28 years ago ironically parting ways on Tuesday.
Former manager at iHeartMedia, Dave Denver says, "I had the great fortune of working with Andy Preston for 18 years. He was a natural born entertainer and story-teller. He lived life to full-capacity, planning every concert event, baseball game, festival trip or vacation that he could squeeze in and as often as he could. The greatest part of all of his personal journeys was the way he shared his experiences with his friends and The "Gater’s" audience. His passion was Rock & Roll and treasured every artist interview and was able to share a story with each of them as they talked, endearing Andy to the stars that made "The Greatest Rock & Roll Ever Made" I will remember him with the same level of stardom as the artists we play on the Gater."
Long-time friend Taylor Morgan says, "Andy gave me my start in radio in the West Palm Beach market in 1996 when I was hired as the evening jock at The "Gater", replacing him....who they moved to the afternoon drive slot. I made a lot of mistakes at the beginning and he never once made me feel that I had done something stupid. His patience and guidance and kindness and generous nature were unlike anything I have ever experienced with anyone else in the radio business in my 20+ year radio career. I will miss him calling me "Tay-Mor" (like J-Lo) whenever I see him. I am just numb."
After buying time on radio stations in the early days of broadcasting, Sears Roebuck & Co. in Chicago decided to start its own station. Its first test broadcasts used the call sign WBBX and then WES (“World’s Economy Store”). On April 12, 1924, the station became WLS (“World’s Largest Store”).
In its first month, WLS started its “National Barn Dance” program, a live country-music showcase that was the direct predecessor of the Grand Ole Opry.
A Chicago radio manufacturer signed on WENR Radio in 1925. The station entered a time-sharing agreement with WBCN Radio. An investor bought both stations in 1927. He later sold the licenses to NBC. The network kept WENR on the air. It shared a frequency with WLS for decades. One station would sign off and another would sign on.
Sears sold WLS to the “Prairie Farmer” magazine in 1928. The radio station became an essential part of agriculture in the Midwest. Farmers relied heavily on agricultural news, commodity prices and weather reports from WLS.
WENR-WLS boosted power to 50,000 watts in 1932, beaming its programming over much of the nation. Despite its part-time status, the station built a large amount of goodwill and a huge audience.
In addition to farm programming, WLS offered entertainment and educational programs. It also made history in news broadcasting. WLS reporter Herb Morrison famously said, “Oh the humanity!” as he watched the 1937 Hindenberg crash in Lakehurst, N.J. The recorded account aired the next day over NBC.
The station also experimented successfully in many forms of news broadcasting, including weather and crop reports. Its most famous news broadcast was the report of the Hindenburg disaster by Herbert Morrison.
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For about 15 years WLS shared it's frequency with WENR as part of the NBC Blue Network. In 1941 WLS changed frequency from 870 to 890 kilocycles with 50 kw of power. The transmitter site was in Chicago's south suburb of Crete, Illinois from 1924 to 1938. In 1938, they moved to it's current location in Tinley Park.
WLS was an NBC Blue Network affiliate during radio’s golden age. NBC was forced to sell the Blue Network, which became ABC. In 1954, ABC bought a controlling interest in WENR-WLS, combining the two into WLS. The network bought WLS outright in 1959.
The ABC era brought a major change. The staid, conservative WLS that brought Midwesterners a steady diet of farm reports, news and weather, general-interest music and entertainment and the “National Barn Dance” became a Top 40 station at 6 a.m. on May 2, 1960. ABC created one of the nation’s most influential radio stations in the rock era, attracting millions of listeners each week.
Here’s a sample of a 1962 aircheck featuring Dick Biondi:
By the late 1980s, it was an adult contemporary station during the day and offered talk programming at night. WLS switched to its current full-time news/talk format in 1989. Cumulus Media now owns the station.
➦In 1935..."Your Hit Parade," debuted on NBC Radio Red Network.
Your Hit Parade aired from 1935 to 1953 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television. It was sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or groups. Many listeners and viewers casually referred to the show with the incorrect title The Hit Parade.
Each Saturday evening, the program offered the most popular and bestselling songs of the week. The earliest format involved a presentation of the top 15 songs. Later, a countdown with fanfares led to the top three finalists, with the number one song for the finale. Occasional performances of standards and other favorite songs from the past were known as "Lucky Strike Extras."
Listeners were informed that the "Your Hit Parade survey checks the best sellers on sheet music and phonograph records, the songs most heard on the air and most played on the automatic coin machines, an accurate, authentic tabulation of America's taste in popular music." However, the exact procedure of this "authentic tabulation" remained a secret.
Doris Day
The origins of the format can be traced back to the Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra (aka Lucky Strike Orchestra), which aired from 1928 to 1931, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. Led by Benjamin A. Rolfe the show was heard on the NBC Red network for an hour at 10 p.m. on Saturdays (with Tuesday and Thursday broadcasts beginning around September 16 and 18, 1930, respectively).
One source says his contract was not renewed due to demanding a raise and the show being moved to the West Coast. As he zoomed in popularity he was rehired, returning (1947–49) to co-star with Doris Day.
Hugely popular on CBS through the WWII years, Your Hit Parade returned to NBC in 1947.
Dozens of singers appeared on the radio program, including "Wee" Bonnie Baker, Dorothy Collins, Beryl Davis, Gogo DeLys, Joan Edwards (1941–46), Georgia Gibbs, Dick Haymes, Snooky Lanson, Gisèle MacKenzie, Johnny Mercer, Andy Russell, Dinah Shore, Ginny Simms, Lawrence Tibbett, Martha Tilton, Eileen Wilson, Barry Wood, and occasional guest vocalists.
The radio series continued until January 16, 1953. ➦In 1941...An radio show with the name Life of Riley was a summer replacement show heard on CBS from April 12, 1941, to September 6, 1941. The CBS program starred Lionel Stander as J. Riley Farnsworth and had no real connection with the more famous series that followed a few years later.
The show is not to be confused with The Life of Riley, another radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a 1950s television series, and a 1958 comic book.
➦In 1945...President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died from a massive cerebral hemorrhage at age 63 (Bor - January 30, 1882). Often referred to by his initials FDR, he served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century.
Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, which realigned American politics into the Fifth Party System and defined American liberalism throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II. Roosevelt is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in American history, as well as among the most influential figures of the 20th century.
Roosevelt believed that his administration's success depended upon a favorable dialogue with the electorate — possible only through methods of mass communication — and that this would allow him to take the initiative. The use of radio for direct appeals was perhaps the most important of FDR's innovations in political communication. Roosevelt's opponents had control of most newspapers in the 1930s and press reports were under their control and involved their editorial commentary. Historian Betty Houchin Winfield says, "He and his advisers worried that newspapers' biases would affect the news columns and rightly so." Historian Douglas B. Craig says that he "offered voters a chance to receive information unadulterated by newspaper proprietors' bias" through the new medium of radio.
➦In 1954…A year earlier...Bill Haley scored his first national success with an original song called "Crazy Man, Crazy," a phrase Haley said he heard from his teenage audience, again released on Essex. "Crazy Man, Crazy" was the first rock and roll song to be televised nationally when it was used on the soundtrack for a 1953 television show starring James Dean.
In the spring of 1954, Haley and His Comets left Essex for New York-based Decca Records, where they were placed under the auspices of veteran producer Milt Gabler. Their first session, on April 12, 1954, yielded "Rock Around the Clock," which would become Haley's biggest hit and one of the most important records in rock and roll history. Most music historians agree that the song, featured in the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle," ushered in the rock 'n' roll era. It hit #1 on June 29, 1955 and stayed there for eight weeks, remaining on the charts for a total of 24 weeks, and has sold more than 25 million copies.
"Shake, Rattle and Roll" followed. it never achieved the same level of historical importance as "Rock Around the Clock" but it predated it as the first international rock and roll hit. It did not attain the Number 1 position on the American charts, but it became Haley's first gold record..
➦In 2002...WTJM 105.1 FM NYC switched call letters to WWPR
➦In 2007...Don Imus was fired from his syndicated program by CBS Radio after a week of controversy brought on by racial remarks broadcast a week earlier about the Rutgers women basketball team.
➦In 2016…Sportscaster Paul Carey died at age 88 (Born - March 15, 1928). His career spanned six decades. He is a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
Paul Carey
Carey was on the original announcing staff of WCEN, Mt. Pleasant when it went on the air August 8, 1949. After completing his college degree in June 1950, Carey returned to WCEN. In 1949, he was part of the first broadcast ever made of a Central Michigan University football game. After returning from serving in the Army in October 1952, he resumed his announcing and sportscasting duties at WCEN. In April 1953, Carey moved to WKNX in Saginaw, Michigan to become the afternoon disc-jockey. He also worked on WKNX-TV and did the first on-camera commercial for that station. During his stay at WKNX, Carey was program director of radio for two years. In June 1956, Carey joined the announcing staff at WJR in Detroit, Michigan and worked there until his retirement in January 1992.
After producing the Detroit Tigers Radio Network from 1964 to 1971, Carey joined Ernie Harwell as a play-by-play announcer for the team in 1973 and spent nineteen seasons calling the games until his retirement after the 1991 season. For sixteen of those years calling Tiger baseball on radio, he also handled the engineering for the broadcasts.
Carey also served as a play-by-play announcer for Detroit Pistons' basketball for six seasons (1969–1973, 1975–76 and 1981–82).
Beasley Media Group announces a format change at its WBOS 92.9 FM. The station has dropped Alernative to become Boston’s ROCK 92.9 … the “Next Generation of Classic Rock” officially launched today after the Dave & Chuck the Freak Morning Show at 10:30am.
Listeners can laugh all morning with Dave & Chuck The Freak and rock all day and night with Guns & Roses, Pearl Jam, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi, Green Day, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Stone Temple Pilots, Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more!
“With Dave and Chuck the Freak already established as the premier morning show for the next generation of Boston rockers, this musical adjustment better aligns our overall product, and positons the new ROCK 92.9 to make deep footprints in Boston, both now and well into the future,” said Cadillac Jack, Director of Programming at Beasley Media Group Boston.
“Boston rock fans told us they wanted a classic rock station that rocks,” said station Program Director Ken West. “With the Dave & Chuck The Freak’s fast-moving morning show and tons of rock from the 80s and 90’s and more…they’re going to get it every day!”
iHeartMedia/Miami has announced that Ross MacLeod has been named Program Director for Classic Rock WBGG Big105.9 FM.
He will report to Rob Miller, Senior Vice President of Programming for iHeartMedia South Florida and Executive Vice President of Hot AC Programming and Strategy for iHeartMedia National Programming Group.
“Ross has had an extensive track record of success and has programmed multiple rock format brands across North America and genuinely understands our market,” said Miller. “His vision, creativity and innovative social media strategies, paired with his strong leadership with on-air talent will further solidify BIG 105.9’s legacy in South Florida.”
MacLeod was most recently Program Director for Jack 96.9 in Calgary, Canada overseeing on-air, online and social brands. He also served as Program Director for several broadcast stations, including 102.1 The Edge in Toronto, Canada as well as CJAY 92 in Calgary, Canada. “It's humbling to join the team of one of the greatest, market-leading classic rock stations in the country,” said MacLeod.”
XEPRS The Mighty 1090, the highest-rated sports talk station in San Diego and a fixture in the market for the last 16 years, went off the air just before noon Wednesday, according to The Union-Tribune.
The president of the company that operates the station said officials were trying to remedy the problem, but a program host said “there’s not a lot of optimism about our future as a sports radio station.”
“We have lost our connection in Mexico and are working to get this resolved,” said Mike Glickenhaus of JMI-owned Broadcast Companies of America, which operates 1090-AM.
Glickenhaus said the station was available via its website and mobile app, although ESPN Radio programming was airing instead of the usual local shows. However, it was announced late in the day that the station’s morning show will be back online and on the app Thursday.
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We ARE doing a show tomorrow morning, damnit! And our beloved @BenHigginsSD will be back with us. 6am on The @Mighty1090
*We will be streaming the show on our app and website so plan accordingly*
Whether the station’s two afternoon shows will follow was not known.
Darren Smith, who has been a host at the station since its founding in 2003, initially posted a meme on Twitter that showed a cartoon character with its lips zipped. Then about 1:45 p.m. he posted a 21-minute message with co-workers Marty Caswell and Jordan Carruth.
Added Smith: “Though it is surprising to hear somebody say that, I will tell you the two people at least who were sitting here in the studio, myself and Marty, we were aware this was a possibility.”
That’s because in December, an issue between two other BCA stations in San Diego and a business partner in Baja California, Jaime Bonilla Valdez, resulted in 105.7-FM going off the air and 1700-AM switching from ESPN and local sports play-by-play to Spanish-language content.
The lease with 1090 is with a different signal operator, Andreas Bichara.
Glickenhaus, according to Smith’s post, told employees the owners “have decided that they no longer are interested in being partners with BCA Radio.”
Smith said the issue was an ongoing contract negotiation “that did not go well.”
Ratings for 1090 — the Padres’ flagship station from 2004-16 — have declined since the Chargers left for Los Angeles in 2017. There is competition from two other stations, iHeartMedia's KLSD Extra1360-AM and Entercom's KWFN 97.3-FM, but 1090 remains the highest-rated among the trio, with the gap between them widening recently.
Some people are wary of smart speakers because they suspect they could be listening to them in their homes.
According to a new report, it turns out that in some cases they're right. Bloomberg writes that thousands of Amazon employees around the world listen to voice recordings captured by Echo owners' devices in order to help improve Alexa, the digital assistant that powers them.
The voice recordings are transcribed, annotated and fed back into the software to help improve Alexa's understanding of speech and help it better respond to commands.
Bloomberg said the workers listen to as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift, and use internal chat rooms to share files when they need help figuring out a muffled word. They also use the chat room to share funny recordings, and sometimes hear things that Echo users likely wouldn't have wanted them to.
No audio is supposed to be stored by people's Echo unless it hears the wake word, but Bloomberg said Alexa will sometimes mistakenly began recording without a prompt, and the workers are required to transcribe that audio too.
Amazon said in a statement that only a, quote, "extremely small sample" of voice recordings are listened to, adding, "We have strict technical and operational safeguards, and have a zero tolerance policy for the abuse of our system."
Radio broadcasters are teaming up with auto manufacturers and technology companies to fight off growing competition from the likes of Sirius XM Holdings and iTunes for passenger mind-share, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Those collaborative efforts were on display at the National Association of Broadcasters Show, which is being held this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
This year, the NAB Show features a new pavilion dedicated to the in-car experience as rapid technological advancements like fifth-generation wireless technology and autonomous driving causes the two industries to converge.
German car maker Audi showed off hybrid radio technology that enables its cars to seamlessly switch from a station’s FM signal to web streaming. Audi will roll out the technology in cars sold in the U.S. next year, said Martin Koch, head of the car company’s infotainment and multimedia development.
Audi is also encouraging radio broadcasters to add greater content to the real estate they have on the newest dashboards, Koch said. Stations can better engage passengers by including logos, recently played songs and podcasts, he said. Radio stations now offer little more than their frequency and current show or song name.
Broadcast radio still dominates the content consumed inside cars because most vehicles on the road don’t have the technology to offer streaming.
The average age of a car on U.S. roads is nearly 12 years, according to the Bureau of Transportation. Radio’s prominence could decline as more people switch to connected cars, unless broadcasters adapt.
Summit Media/Knoxville has announced the addition of programming veteran Loyd Ford to program Country WCYQQ 100.3 FM.
Ford has an extensive radio programming background, and most recently ran Rainmaker Pathway Consulting in Greenville, SC. Prior to that, he spent 13 years as Mgr./Radio Division for Americanist Direct Marketing. Before that, he held radio programming and brand management jobs at Capstar, SFX, Clear Channel, Entercom, and Amcom General stations.
He succeeds Kevin King, who recently returned to ADX Communications/Pensacola as OM.
Summit Media/Knoxville Pres. Chris Protzman said, “Loyd comes to Knoxville operations with extensive experience in Country brand building, audience development and talent management. I am delighted to have the breadth of veteran experience (+20 yrs) in Country radio that we will be enjoying with Loyd at the helm. We are excited to have him on the Q Generation team!”
“What a great time to move to Knoxville and take an active role in the community there,” said Ford. “I love the team environment of this special Summitmedia cluster and look forward to working with the Knoxville programming and operations team. You can tell the work that has gone into the Q100.3 brand, and we all look forward to what is coming. We’re headed to Rocky Top!”
WDAS 105.3 FM has announced that Adimu Colon has been named the new host of “The Quiet Storm”.
Adimu Colon
“The Quiet Storm” broadcasts weekday nights from 7:00 p.m. to 12 a.m.
Colon joins the WDAS from Washington, D.C., where he most recently served as an on-air personality for WPGC-FM as well as afternoon drive host and assistant program director/marketing director for WMMJ-FM. His extensive radio background also includes working at WBLS FM in New York City, KKBT FM in Los Angeles, California and WOWI-FM in Norfolk, Virginia. Additionally, Colon served as a television personality on BET Networks and is a graduate of Hampton University.
“Adding a talent likes Adimu to our roster cements WDAS position as the market-leading station for the best in R&B,” said Derrick “DC” Corbett, Director of Urban Programming for iHeartMedia Philadelphia. “It’s phenomenal for both the radio station and for the city of Philadelphia as he is the perfect match for our top-rated night show. He joins a group of legendary on-air talent who laid the foundation at WDAS as well as the unmatched tam of on-air personalities who turn the mics on daily in our studios.”
“I’m extremely humbled and grateful to everyone at iHeartMedia for this opportunity to get to know and connect with WDAS listeners in the city of Brotherly Love,” said Colon. “The WDAS brand is legendary in both Philly and in radio and I’m excited to continue in its rich history of serving the people of Philadelphia.”
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When it comes to their social media preferences, U.S. teens are about as loyal as Brutus was to Caesar. Back in 2013, Facebook was their social network of choice. In 2014, Instagram took the throne for a while before being replaced by Snapchat in 2016.
Listeners can laugh all morning with Dave & Chuck The Freak and rock all day and night with Guns & Roses, Pearl Jam, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi, Green Day, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Stone Temple Pilots, Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more!
“Ross has had an extensive track record of success and has programmed multiple rock format brands across North America and genuinely understands our market,” said Miller. “His vision, creativity and innovative social media strategies, paired with his strong leadership with on-air talent will further solidify BIG 105.9’s legacy in South Florida.”
Summit Media/Knoxville Pres. Chris Protzman said, “Loyd comes to Knoxville operations with extensive experience in Country brand building, audience development and talent management. I am delighted to have the breadth of veteran experience (+20 yrs) in Country radio that we will be enjoying with Loyd at the helm. We are excited to have him on the Q Generation team!”
