Beasley Media Group has announcds Juline Jordan has been promoted to Midday Personality at Class Rock WCSX 94.7 FM in Detroit.
Jordan has spent over 20 years working in Detroit, most recently working as a weekend and fill-in on-air personality at WCSX-FM. Prior to that, she was heard on WRIF-FM.
“Juline is an outgoing personality who thrives on listener engagement on-air and in live settings, said Beasley Media Group Detroit Vice President and Market Manager Mac Edwards. “She impressed us with an eagerness to share and assist in generating ideas for promotions and features that will continue to strengthen the WCSX Classic Rock brand! Additionally, her creative digital and writing chops will help grow our social platforms in midday & beyond.”
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"I'm very humbled and grateful to be part of the full-time WCSX lineup,” said Jordan. “It's my extreme pleasure to be given this opportunity, and I'm more inspired than ever to give Detroit my very best. I would like to thank my program director, Jerry "JT" Tarrants and our market manager, Mac Edwards for believing in me and giving me this opportunity rock Detroit every day."
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission will be voting to eliminate a number of restrictions on media ownership, according to The Hill.
The rules on the chopping block include prohibitions against the common ownership of both a newspaper and broadcast station in the same market. The restrictions, which have been in place for more than 40 years, are aimed at ensuring that communities have access to a diverse set of news outlets.
But Ajit Pai, the FCC's Republican chairman, says that the rules are outdated and prevent news organizations from being competitive in a market where ad dollars are being vacuumed up by internet giants like Facebook and Google.
"This rule was established in 1975 with the stated purpose of preserving and promoting a diversity of viewpoints," Pai wrote in an op-ed for The NYTimes on Thursday.
"Arguably, it made sense at the time. But with the internet now dominating the news landscape, the rule is no longer needed, and may actually be undermining the diversity of viewpoints it was intended to foster."
But critics say the change will lead to increased media consolidation, shutting out smaller, independent owners from the market.
"He's fulfilling a longstanding industry wish list and ignoring how decades of runaway media consolidation have significantly harmed local news and independent voices," said Free Press CEO Craig Aaron in a statement last month. "The FCC has routinely failed -- and been repeatedly scolded by the courts for doing so -- to consider how gutting these rules will impact already abysmally low levels of broadcast ownership by women and people of color."
"We need to strengthen local voices and increase viewpoint diversity, not surrender our airwaves to an ever-smaller group of giant conglomerates," Aaron added.
There’s a battle raging inside Charter Communications, and the outcome could decide whether the cable giant continues its acquisition spree — or gets gobbled up itself, according to The NTYPost.
Tom Rutledge
Charter’s Chief Executive Tom Rutledge — who last year swallowed Time Warner Cable and renamed it Spectrum, making Charter the nation’s third-biggest pay-TV operator — insists that he can increase Charter’s dominance with still more purchases.
The NYPost reported in June that Charter was weighing an approach to Cox Communications, an Atlanta-based regional cable provider. More recently, rumors have circulated that Charter has been in talks to do a deal with Altice, which most recently scooped up New York-based Cablevision.
But 76-year-old billionaire John Malone, who is Charter’s biggest shareholder with control of 27 percent of its stock, is meanwhile showing signs that he’s willing to head in the other direction — namely, a sale of Charter at the right price, insiders say.
John Malone
“I think Malone is a seller,” one source told The Post. The source added that “Malone, though, doesn’t control Charter,” and “the board is totally behind Rutledge.”
The Post reported exclusively Nov. 1 that SoftBank, the Japan-based buyout fund that owns Sprint, had rekindled on-again, off-again talks to acquire Charter.
Although a deal isn’t imminent, “I wouldn’t count Malone out,” a telecom executive told The Post. “There is a 50-percent chance a SoftBank-Charter deal happens in six months.”
“My guess is Rutledge has a few quarters to increase the share price,” the telecom exec said.
Skeptics say a tidal wave of cord-cutting, as viewers flock to cheaper streaming services from Netflix and Amazon, is making that look iffy. Charter’s shares on Friday closed at $338.44, well off a Sept. 6 peak of $403.65..
At least five companies said over the weekend that they will no longer advertise their products during Fox News' "Hannity" television show, which sparked an outpouring on Sunday of counter-protests on social media.
Keurig, Realtor.com, 23 and Me, Eloquii and Nature's Bounty all pulled their ads from the television show, in response to Fox host Sean Hannity's coverage of the sexual misconduct allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. The Hill is reporting Realtor.com and Keurig both said they are stopping their ads from airing during the show after being questioned about the advertisements on Twitter. Neither company specifically said their decision was over Moore coverage, but only made the announcement in response to critics.
“Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We are adjusting our media buy to no longer include this show placement. –MS,” Realtor.com wrote to a Twitter user on Friday who tweeted a clip of Hannity’s Fox News show at the company.
Keurig said in a tweet to the president of liberal group Media Matters for America that the company is stopping its ad during Hannity’s show.
“Angelo, thank you for your concern and for bringing this to our attention,” the Keurig account wrote to Angelo Carusone. “We worked with our media partner and FOX news to stop our ad from airing during the Sean Hannity Show.”
Angelo works for Media Matters, all they do is target companies that run ads on @seanhannity's show by tweeting to the companies posing as phony "concerned" customers. Don't forget to thank Angelo for the boycott coming your way by actual customers. https://t.co/kjDeRtPbSa
Media Matters has for months tried to put pressure on Hannity’s advertisers. In May the group published a list of the Fox News host's advertisers on its website.
The latest push comes after Hannity during his Thursday night show urged viewers not to rush to judgment regarding the allegations against Moore.
“Every single person in this country deserves the presumption of innocence,” Hannity said. “With the allegations against Judge Moore, none of us know the truth of what happened 38 years ago. The only people that would know are the people involved in this incident.”
Hannity also said Moore should drop out of the race if the allegations against him are true.
Some advertisers may not find him brand-safe, but “Hannity” led the 9 p.m. cable news ratings in October, pulling in an average of 3.2 million viewers, ahead of Rachel Maddow’s 2.5 million over at MSNBC, according to Nielsen. Not only is “Hannity” bringing in the numbers, but the boycott has led to fans doubling down on their support for the Fox News personality. Some people have even launched their own “boycotts,” posting videos of themselves smashing their Keurig coffeemakers.
According to iSpot TV, Hannity's Hannity program earned $153.5 million in advertising revenue so far this year as of October 31. That trails Tucker Carlson Tonight, which generated $161 million in ad revenue during that same time even though it attracts fewer viewers than Hannity. A year ago, Hannity's ad revenue was $161.6 million. Carlson also generated more advertising spending than the $153.7 million in ad revenue the Kelly File earned in 2016 and the $110.8 million The O'Reilly Factor netted. Forbes reports Data from iSpot and another ad-monitoring service called Standard Media Index also shows that the average cost of a commercial on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News' second most popular show, is more expensive than Hannity. According to SMI, the average price for a 30-second spot on Hannity was $9,900 as of September compared with $11,900 that Fox News earns for a Tucker Carlson commercial. iSpot TV estimates the average price of Tucker Carlson Tonight spots at $13,129, above the $12,812 earned by Hannity
ESPN launched its flagship SportsCenter program on messaging app Snapchat on Monday, reimagining the show that provides sports highlights and commentary into a short-form series.
The new show deepens the relationship between ESPN parent Walt Disney Co and Snapchat parent Snap Inc., reports Reuters.
The sports network, which has made Snapchat content since 2015, is trying to reach a younger audience, while the social media app, whose messages disappear after viewing, is adding more content in an effort to grow its user base beyond its core youth demographic.
The partnership is a two-year deal and Snap and ESPN will share revenues, Snap said, though it declined to give specifics.
SportsCenter will air twice a day on Snapchat during weekdays, and once a day on weekends. A roster of six hosts will give commentary and perspectives, including ESPN anchors Katie Nolan and Elle Duncan, and ESPN Radio host Jason Fitz, Snap said.
President Trump on Saturday said that the U.S. needs as “many news outlets as you can” get in the face of the rumored sale of news network CNN.
"I do feel you should have as many news outlets as you can — especially since so many are fake,” he told reporters on Air Force One.
He was responding to tense negotiations over AT&T’s proposed merger with Time Warner.
According to The Hill, reports conflicted this week about whether AT&T and Time Warner are being asked to sell CNN as part of the merger, in order to avoid monopoly regulations. CNN is part of Turner Broadcasting, which is owned by Time Warner.
Department of Justice (DOJ) and AT&T sources said the DOJ was mandating the sale, but the Justice Department denied it. AT&T was also rumored to have offered to part with CNN in order to secure the merger, but the company’s CEO said publicly that selling CNN is off the table.
The corporate negotiations are political in part because Trump frequently calls out CNN as “fake news.” Some critics alleged Trump could be seeking to retaliate against the network by interfering in a Justice Department decision regarding the $85 billion merger.
The head of the DOJ’s antitrust division denied that the White House is involved in the transaction.
Longtime Director of Production Jim Duncan has exited the eight station cluster at iHeartMedia/Los Angeles.
The move is the result of downsizing in the company, according to his Facebook post.
Part of Duncan's 51 years in the radio biz include a long and storied contribution to Country radio, including a 10-year run beginning in the 70s as Country Editor for Radio & Records. Duncan was also deeply involved in Country radio at the station level for decades, handling PD and on-air gigs at KSON/San Diego, KFOX/Los Angeles, and later, Country combo KZLA/KLAC/Los Angeles.
For many years, Duncan produced and hosted many Westwood One nationally syndicated shows aired on Country stations.
More recently, Duncan has been with iHM handling voice imaging for the LA Lakers and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
“I plan to spend time with my wife Judy (married 48 years), who recently retired from her job, and our kids and grandchildren. Who knows, maybe you’ll find me doing a weekend show in some small market.”
Sam Smith scores his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as The Thrill of It All debuts atop the list. effective November 14.
The set earned 237,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 9, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 185,000 were in traditional album sales. The album is Smith’s second full-length studio effort, and was released on Nov. 3 through Capitol Records. It follows his debut studio set, In the Lonely Hour, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the July 5, 2014-dated chart.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
Smith’s album was led by the single “Too Good at Goodbyes,” which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking his fifth top 10 song on the tally.
At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Maroon 5 collects its sixth top 10 album, as Red Pill Blues debuts at No. 2. The set earned 122,000 equivalent album units, of which 94,000 were in traditional album sales. The band’s last album launched at No. 1 in 2014, starting with 164,000 copies sold (before the chart transitioned to a units-ranked list later that year).ours.
Chris Brown’s Heartbreak on a Full Moon holds steady at No. 3, with 73,000 units (up 7 percent). The album debuted a week ago with 68,000 units, but with only three full tracking days of activity, following its release on Tuesday, Oct. 31.
Blake Shelton arrives at No. 4 with his latest album, Texoma Shore, starting with 63,000 units (55,000 in traditional album sales). It’s Shelton’s 11th top 10 album, stretching back to 2003’s The Dreamer, which debuted and peaked at No. 8.
Cheryl A. Scott was a dynamic businesswoman, a straight arrow, a nail driver and “a tough broad.” And that was only the half of her.
“Her greatest quality was forgiveness,” said her brother, Robert Dickey Jr., who ran KQV 1410 AM with Mrs. Scott after their father, Robert Dickey Sr., died in 2011.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Scott, 62, died Friday from lung and liver cancer. For six months, she received chemotherapy while continuing to work three days a week at the radio station. The cancer went into remission for two months but returned in October.
Mrs. Scott was the third oldest of Patricia and Robert Dickey’s 12 children. The oldest is Carol Finelli Brown, whose Total Traffic reports are carried on KQV and many other radio stations.
Their father was the only other family member who could be heard on-air, but radio is in their blood. The family was living in Long Island when Robert Dickey Sr. helped pioneer the all-news, 22-minute radio show at WINS-AM in New York City.
In 1976, her father, a Beaver County native, moved back to Pittsburgh to become general manager of KQV and WDVE-FM, both Taft radio stations. She eventually was brought in to "do the books". And becamdebusiness manager in 2011.
New York gossip columnist Liz Smith, who covered the breakup of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first marriage and helped lead the media’s charge into celebrity news, died on Sunday at her Manhattan home, the New York Times and other media reported. She was 94, according to Reuters.
The Texas native chronicled the lives of Hollywood and Broadway stars, along with moguls, models and the wealthy, starting in the 1950s.
Her column, called simply “Liz Smith,” ran in The Daily News from 1976 to 1991; in New York Newsday from 1991 to 1995, when that newspaper closed; continued in Newsday until 2005; and, with some overlap, in The New York Post from 1995 to 2009 — a 33-year run that morphed onto the internet in the New York Social Diary. According to the NYTimes, it was syndicated for years in 60 to 70 other newspapers, even as she appeared on television news and entertainment programs and wrote magazine articles and books.
She famously broke the news of Trump’s separation from his first wife, Ivana, in the New York Daily News, one of several papers where she worked over the years. She also worked at New York Newsday and the New York Post. Her column was widely syndicated, and at her peak she earned more than $1 million a year, according to the New York Times.
Unlike her predecessors in the gossip field, her coverage often had less to do with scandal and more about offering readers a window into the lives of the rich and famous.
Born Mary Elizabeth Smith in Fort Worth, she was the daughter of a cotton broker who fell on hard times during the Great Depression, the Times said. She later told the newspaper that she “couldn’t face” the family’s poverty and fell in love with the glamour of movies and their stars.
Smith graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism in 1949, where she wrote for The Daily Texan and The Texas Ranger. She later moved to New York where she worked as a typist, a proofreader, and a reporter before she broke into the media world as a news producer for Mike Wallace at CBS Radio. She spent five years as a news producer for NBC-TV. She also worked for Allen Funt on Candid Camera.
In the late 1950s Smith worked as a ghostwriter for the popular "Cholly Knickerbocker" gossip column that appeared in the Hearst newspapers. After leaving that column in the early 1960s she went to work for Helen Gurley Brown as the entertainment editor for the American version of Cosmopolitan magazine, later working simultaneously as Sports Illustrated's entertainment editor as well.
On February 16, 1976, Smith began a self-titled gossip column for the New York Daily News. During a 1979 newspaper strike, her Daily News editors asked her to appear daily on WNBC-TV's Live at Five, and she stayed with the program for eleven years. Her exposure on television made Smith a popular figure on the Manhattan social scene and provided fodder for her column, which had, by then, been syndicated to nearly seventy newspapers. She won an Emmy for her reporting on Live at Five for WNBC in 1985.
Smith was once reportedly the highest-paid print journalist in the United States
➦In 1906...Lee de Forest, who coined the term "radio", patented Audion tube.
Lee de Forest
De Forest was interested in wireless telegraphy and invented the Audion in 1906. He then developed an improved wireless telegraph receiver.
On 25 October 1906, de Forest filed a patent for diode vacuum tube detector, a two-electrode device for detecting electromagnetic waves, a variant of the Fleming valve invented two years earlier. One year later, he filed a patent for a three-electrode device that was a much more sensitive detector of electromagnetic waves. It was granted US Patent 879,532 in February 1908. The device was also called the de Forest valve, and since 1919 has been known as the triode. De Forest's innovation was the insertion of a third electrode, the grid, between the cathode (filament) and the anode (plate) of the previously invented diode. The resulting triode or three-electrode vacuum tube could be used as an amplifier of electrical signals, notably for radio reception. The Audion was the fastest electronic switching element of the time, and was later used in early digital electronics (such as computers). The triode was vital in the development of transcontinental telephone communications, radio, and radar until the 1948 invention of the transistor.
In 1904, a De Forest transmitter and receiver were set up aboard the steamboat Haimun operated on behalf of The Times, the first of its kind. On July 18, 1907, De Forest broadcast the first ship-to-shore message from the steam yacht Thelma. The communication provided quick, accurate race results of the Annual Inter-Lakes Yachting Association (I-LYA) Regatta. The message was received by his assistant, Frank E. Butler of Monroeville, Ohio, in the Pavilion at Fox's Dock located on South Bass Island on Lake Erie. DeForest disliked the term "wireless" and chose a new moniker, "radio."
De Forest is credited with the birth of public radio broadcasting when on January 12, 1910, he conducted experimental broadcast of part of the live performance of Tosca and, the next day, a performance with the participation of Italian tenor Enrico Caruso from the stage of Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
➦In 1913...actor/narrator Alexander Scourby was born in Brooklyn. His deep resonant voice was developed in radio drama of the 1940’s. He became one of TV’s most in-demand narrators, notably on Victory at Sea, the CBS series The Body Human, and the National Geographic specials. He died Feb 22, 1985 at age 71.
Jack Gale
➦In 1925...Legendary radio broadcaster Jack Gale was born. During his remarkable career he has been a radio performer, programmer, owner, voice-over talent, music publisher, manager and record producer spans more than 50 years.
Born in Baltimore, Gale started in radio prior to the emergence of rock 'n' roll and the Top 40 format.
He was heard on WSRS in Cleveland, WTMA in Charleston S.C., WITH in Baltimore, and WMEX in Boston before joining Stan Kaplan in 1965 at BIG WAYS in Charlotte, N.C., where the station and "Jack Gale the Morning Glory" achieved #1 ratings in 36 North and South Carolina counties.
Gale is still active and lives in the Fort Pierce, FL area.
➦In 1937...The National Broadcasting Company, (NBC) formed the first full-sized symphony orchestra for the sole purpose of broadcasting on the radio. Arturo Toscanini worked as its conductor for the first 17 years
➦In 1956...Dickie Goodman and Bill Buchanan (known as novelty records duo Buchanan and Goodman) appear in a New York City court to begin untangling the thicket of lawsuits brought on by their hit "Flying Saucer," which utilizes any number of "drop-ins" of other artists' hit records for comedic effect. This novelty song reached #3 on Billboard in 1956.
➦In 1965...The Album Charts..After 35 weeks, the Soundtrack to "The Sound of Music" reached #1 on the album chart. That album toppled Help! by the Beatles while the Ramsey Lewis Trio dropped with The In Crowd. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass moved back up with Whipped Cream & Other Delights and Bob Dylan was down after peaking at #3 with Highway 61 Revisited.
The rest of the Top 10: Look At Us from Sonny & Cher, Out of Our Heads by the Rolling Stones, the Soundtrack to "Mary Poppins", Barbra Streisand was emphatic with My Name Is Barbra and Herman's Hermits dropped to #10 with Herman's Hermits On Tour.
➦In 2001...Yankees Radio Broadcaster Frank Messer died.
An Asheville, North Carolina native, Messer was a member of the Marines during World War II in the South Pacific. After the war, he worked as a broadcaster in minor league baseball in the 1950s.
He got his major-league break when he joined the Baltimore Orioles and worked alongside their noted longtime voice, Chuck Thompson. In 1966, the year Bill O’Donnell also joined the broadcast crew, the O’s won their first world championship. Messer also called Baltimore Colts football during the 1960s.
Messer’s next major-league break came after the 1967 season, when Joe Garagiola left the Yankees broadcast crew to concentrate on the network jobs he also had at NBC Sports and NBC News. Messer took Garagiola’s place for 1968, working with ex-Yankees Jerry Coleman and Phil Rizzuto.
Jerry Coleman, Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto
The Yankees’ longtime public-relations director Bob Fishel had urged team management to approve a traditional play-by-play sportscaster, which the Yanks had not had since the firing of Red Barber after the 1966 season.
“Juline is an outgoing personality who thrives on listener engagement on-air and in live settings, said Beasley Media Group Detroit Vice President and Market Manager Mac Edwards. “She impressed us with an eagerness to share and assist in generating ideas for promotions and features that will continue to strengthen the WCSX Classic Rock brand! Additionally, her creative digital and writing chops will help grow our social platforms in midday & beyond.”
