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People Moves 3/29: A Pair Of On-Air Exits At 105.1 The Bounce
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:08 PM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167450/people-moves-3-29-a-pair-of-on-air-exits-at-105-1-the-bounce/
Along with the Program Director change this week at Beasley Media Classic
Hip-Hop 105.1 The Bounce WMGC-FM Detroit a pair of on-air hosts exited the
station earlier this month.
Comedian Foolish joined The Bounce in July 2017 to co-host Bigg Foolish in
mornings after previously hosting mornings at 97.9 WJLB and Hot 107.5 WGPR
in the market. His presence has been eliminated from the station with the
morning show rebranded as The Morning Bounce with Bigg and Shay Shay
remaining in place.
Original Bounce Ambassador Reggie Reg Davis is also out. Davis originally
served as a weekend host at WMGC-FM and then joined DJ Dinero in nights
last September.
Midwest Communications CHR Y94 93.7 KOYY Fargo ND has promoted morning
co-host Corey Zero Schaefer to Program Director. Schaefer fills the opening
created by Jake Kellys exit last month and will remain part of The Morning
Playhouse with Rat and Maiyah.
Adams Radio Group has announced that O.J. Jackson will retire as VP/General
Manager of its Northwest Indiana cluster on March 31 and be succeeded by
Director of Sales Jennifer Finnerty-Figg.
Jackson has served as GM of the cluster that includes Classic Rock X-Rock
103.9 WXRD, Country Indiana 105.5 WLJE, and AC 107.1 The Z WZVN since 2012
after previously serving as Sales Manager for previous owner Radio One
Communications.
Adams Radio Group is announcing the retirement of accomplished and
award-winning broadcast executive O.J. Jackson, Vice President and General
Manager of Adams Radio Group of Northern Indiana.
Jackson’s retirement goes into effect on March 31st, 2018. Jennifer
Finnerty-Figg, Director of Sales for Adams Radio of Northern Indiana, will
become Vice President General Manager of the Adams Northern Indiana
cluster. President and CEO of Adams Radio Ron Stone says “OJ Jackson has
enjoyed a fine career and will be missed by me and everyone at Adams Radio.
He deserves an amazing retirement given his contributions to radio over the
past 40 years. I have learned a great deal from OJ and it has been a
pleasure to work with him. I, and all of Adams wish him all the best in his
new adventures!” Ron added “Jennifer has been trained by OJ of 15 years for
her new role and I have no doubt whatsoever that she will be amazing in it!
I am very excited for her and look forward to working with Jen as our
newest VP/GM”.
Jackson’s career started in the late ‘60s, including radio and television
stations in Indiana and Michigan as on-air host, weatherman and producer.
Jackson moved into sales and management in Northwest Indiana with Porter
County Broadcasting, owned by the late Country Disc Jockey Hall of Fame
member “Uncle” Len Ellis. He was responsible for the design and building of
a station in Wabash, Indiana for the company, then went on to other
executive positions in radio, television and advertising in Valparaiso and
South Bend before returning to Northwest Indiana to become Vice President
and Sales Manager with Ellis-owned Radio One Communications. In 2012,
Jackson became General Manager of the company, and stations WLJE-FM,
WAKE-AM, WZVN-FM and WXRD-FM, retaining the position when the properties
were acquired by Adams Radio Group in 2014.
During his career in Northwest Indiana Jackson helped lead the way in
creating a regional presence for WLJE-FM and its sister stations. He
created the “Chicago to South Bend” moniker for WLJE, which is still used
today. He also launched the Region News Team brand used by all stations
owned by Adams Radio Group of Northern Indiana.
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Doug Wright To Semi-Retire From KSL Salt Lake City; Dave Noriega & Debbie
Dujanovic To Take Slot
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:55 PM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167453/doug-wright-to-semi-retire-from-ksl-salt-lake-city-dave-noriega-debbie-dujanovic-to-take-slot/
On the fortieth anniversary of his joining Bonneville Media News/Talk 1160
KSL/102.7 KSL-FM Salt Lake City, Doug Wright will step away from his daily
talk show at the station.
Wright joined KSL in 1978 as Production Director and began hosting a daily
talk show in 1986. He will continue hosting The Movie Show on Fridays from
9am-12pm after passing the baton on Monday-Thursday to Debbie Dujanovic and
David Noriega. Dujanovic, who serves as an investigative reporter at KSL-TV
and Noriega, who is a sports producer for the station, will take over the
11am-12pm hour from Wright on Monday, April 2 before absorbing the full
9am-12pm slot in June.
The post Doug Wright To Semi-Retire From KSL Salt Lake City; Dave Noriega
Debbie Dujanovic To Take Slot appeared first on RadioInsight.
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Darryl Parks: Shocking (and insightful) things people say in your career
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:40 PM PDT
https://darrylparks.com/2018/03/29/shocking-and-insightful-things-people-say-in-your-career/
The post Darryl Parks: Shocking (and insightful) things people say in your
career appeared first on RadioInsight.
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Cleveland Plain-Dealer: WAPS' 330 Day promotion keeps Akron T-shirt
producers busy
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:30 PM PDT
http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2018/03/330_day_promotion_keeps_akron.html
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producers busy appeared first on RadioInsight.
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To the College Broadcaster I Heard Tonight
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:47 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/ross/167429/to-the-college-broadcaster-i-heard-tonight/
Like a lot of the radio that interests me, I came upon the college
Alternative station I heard tonight by accident. Its name was similar to a
better-known commercial station. That station wasn’t available online, so I
decided to listen. “Sober Up” by AJR was ending. The student on the air
ID’d it as the band “Air.” Then he back-sold M83’s “Midnight City” as by
“M-B-3.” A few breaks later, AWOLnation became “Owl-Nation.”
The student on the air didn’t get all the band names wrong. He didn’t do
anything particularly risible. He made it through a PSA perfunctorily —
clearly reading, but not stumbling. He plowed through a dense weather
forecast a little too quickly. Mostly the breaks were backsells, and most
of them were “that was/this is.”
But even if the broadcast had been more spectacularly bad, there would be
no derision here. Beyond victims of actual tragedies, there is nobody I
feel worse for than Brian Collins, the college sportscaster tormented for
more than a decade for uttering “boom goes the dynamite.” You’re supposed
to stink when you’re a college broadcaster. And you’re supposed to be able
to do it in relative anonymity. If it were allowed to ruin your life,
college radio would have been a serious error in judgment for most of us.
If you also stunk on the radio in college, you’re allowed to laugh at
Collins, but only as a proxy for your own early foibles. If you were one of
those people who somehow became good quickly, and you still enjoy sneering
at somebody who wasn’t, boy, are you ever ungracious about your own gifts.
And if you weren’t on the radio or TV in college, there is zero chance that
you would have been any better any sooner than Brian Collins. So be nice.
I wondered if there was some way to reach the jock on the air, but he was
not indulging in that other telltale trait of college radio newbies —
endlessly giving the request line, then complaining when nobody called.
Besides, with the wisdom of a lifetime, I have finally come to understand
that no one wants to be hot-lined over a mispronunciation. Not even to
avoid doing it a second time. And he probably would have thought I was
trying to prank him into pronouncing “Air” and “MB3” wrong.
But recently, one of my daughter’s friends came home from college and
announced that she was doing a radio show on her Internet station. There
are things I’d like to tell her, and the guy I heard on college radio
tonight:
For starters, I’m glad you’re there. Because I hear about onetime-prominent
college stations that now struggle to fill shifts. My friend who teaches a
college course is often happy for a class of a dozen students or more. I’d
never known radio to be a particular interest of my daughter’s friend
before; I was delighted that radio still held just enough sway to attract
somebody not inextricably drawn there from birth.
If your breaks are mostly “that was/this is” now, I understand. That is
what I often hear listening to college radio. It is, for that matter, what
I often hear listening to commercial broadcast radio. What else do you have
to imitate? For many of us, that first on-air break sounded pukey. We
thought we were imitating our radio heroes, but it was more the parody of
radio that you saw when there was a DJ voice in movies or commercials. But
who would even know to do that now?
If you want to talk about something other than “that was/this is,” you have
choices. I would be happy to know a little something about your school or
your town or your life. My college radio station was full of people who
wanted to be Steve Dahl — Howard Stern hadn’t yet come to prominence — and
just freestyle, or overshare about their lives and opinions. Those results
were often painful (again, they were supposed to be). But I wish I were
coming across Dahl and Stern wannabes now.
How about adapting the contents of your tweets? Because however stilted you
may be on the air today, you may well be funny on social media. If you can
be funny or have content and still be brief enough for a posting
(especially the old Twitter limits), you actually understand the essence of
on-air communication.
In fact, if social media is a strong suit, feel free to talk about it. As a
professional broadcaster, you’ll be asked to do so frequently, and if you
have something better to say than “like us on Facebook, follow us on
Twitter,” you’ll be in good shape. And these days, it may be your off-air
presence that gets you hired.
Please react to the music. My daughter’s friend gets to pick hers. But even
if you’re on the air playing unfamiliar artists, chances are excellent that
friends or roommates have played new music for you before. What did you
tell them (especially if you were trying to be polite)? One of the
attractive things about listening to college radio well into adulthood is
hearing somebody whose passion for the music is not tempered by adult
realities.
And, oh yeah, be yourself. But only if you want to. Because radio is
famously the liberator of the shy. If what you do on the air has some basis
in reality, that’s good. But feel free to enhance it. Scott Shannon would
back me up on this one.
And what is your advice for college broadcasters? Please leave a comment.
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RadioInsight.
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David Hinckley: Don Imus Leaves a Trail of Way More Than Dust
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:40 AM PDT
https://medium.com/@dhinckley/don-imus-leaves-a-trail-of-way-more-than-dust-c46f83eafd81
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Ben Shapiro To Launch In Syndication In Six Major Markets
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 08:14 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167432/ben-shapiro-to-launch-in-syndication-in-six-major-markets/
Westwood One is launching the Ben Shapiro Show into syndication on Monday,
April 2 with seven clearances including six in major markets.
The daily hour-long show will be fed from 5-6pm eastern which is when it
will air on Cumulus Conservative Talk 770 WABC New York. The other launch
affiliates carrying the program will air it at 9pm local time including
Cumulus 790 KABC Los Angeles, 890 WLS Chicago, 630 WMAL/105.9 WMAL-FM
Washington DC, Talk 106.7 WYAY Atlanta, 860 KKAT Salt Lake City, and
Bonnevilles 770 KTTH Seattle.
The daily show is a conversion of Shapiros daily podcast into radio form.
Shapiro is the editor of Conservative site The Daily Wire.
Westwood One, the largest audio network in the U.S., is expanding
distribution of the wildly-popular The Ben Shapiro Show podcast. Launching
on April 2nd, The Ben Shapiro Show will be syndicated across major U.S.
markets including legendary station WABC/New York City; plus KABC/Los
Angeles, WLS/ Chicago, WMAL/Washington D.C.; WYAY/Atlanta, KTTH/Seattle,
and KKAT/Salt Lake City. Weeks before the radio show launches, advertising
time in The Ben Shapiro Show is completely SOLD OUT.
The Ben Shapiro Show podcast has a fiercely loyal following with 15 million
downloads each month. Listeners tuning in to The Ben Shapiro Show on radio
will hear a high-energy, action-packed hour as Ben covers America’s most
powerful political personalities, brutally breaking down the culture, while
never giving an inch.
The Daily Wire and Westwood One are doing something unprecedented: were
launching the first podcast-to-talk radio transition ever,” said Ben
Shapiro. “And were doing it in 5 of the top 10 DMA markets in the country,
which is amazing in and of itself no show launches with this constellation
of stations. We already have an enormous digital audience, and we cant wait
to extend that audience to more traditional platforms.
“Ben’s wildly successful podcast delivers a fresh voice to a new generation
of millennial conservatives and we are excited to take this provocative
narrative to syndicated radio,” said Suzanne Grimes, EVP Marketing, Cumulus
Media and President, Westwood One. “As America’s largest audio network, we
are putting our full weight behind the show to connect Ben with millions of
new listeners across podcast, radio, and streaming platforms.”
Ben Shapiro is editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com, and host of The Ben
Shapiro Show, the top conservative podcast in the nation. He is a leading
conservative speaker on college campuses, consistently defending free
speech and open debate. Shapiro is the author of seven books, including The
New York Times bestseller, “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and
Intimidation Silences America” (2012). Shapiro is also a
nationally-syndicated columnist since age 17, and a graduate of UCLA and
Harvard Law School.
For more information on affiliating or advertising in The Ben Shapiro Show,
please contact Stuart Greenblatt at SGree...@Westwoodone.com.
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B96 Chicago Making Morning Show Change
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 07:44 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167423/b96-chicago-making-morning-show-change/
The J Show is out and Kevin Drex Bucher may be incoming at Entercom CHR B96
96.3 WBBM-FM Chicago.
Jamar J Niice McNeil joined WBBM-FM in 2008 for middays and moved to
mornings at the start of 2009 where he was first paired with Julian Nieh.
Following Niehs departure in 2012 the show was rebranded as The J Show with
J Niice paired with Showbiz Shelly Menaker and producer Gabe Ramirez. While
McNeil and Menaker have already been wiped from the WBBM-FM website Ramirez
remains.
Robert Feder reports that former 103.5 Kiss-FM WKSC morning host Drex is
incoming to fill the newly created opening. Drex hosted mornings at WKSC
from 2003-2010 after a long run in mornings at 102.7 KTFM San Antonio.
After departing Kiss-FM he hosted a nighttime talkshow on Cumulus News/Talk
810 KGO San Francisco from February 2015 until August 2016.
`
10 years to the day. Thank you Chicago. Exciting things on the way, hope
you join me for the next part of the adventure. ??? -J
A post shared by J Niice (@iamjniice) on Mar 29, 2018 at 5:04am PDT
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Americas All-Current CHR Superstation Is
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 07:03 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/ross/167420/americas-all-current-chr-superstation-is/
It’s always an intriguing question for programmers. Could you successfully
program an all-current CHR along the lines of WCAU-FM Philadelphia? WCAU,
now WOGL, famously revitalized the format with a total inventory of 50
titles in fall ‘81/spring ’82. And it did so beginning at a time when CHR
music was at its then-nadir.
That was a long time ago, and all-current is not where CHR lives right now.
Over the last decade, CHR has adapted the lessons of Country and Hot AC —
formats where recurrents are often the most important records on the
station. These days, CHR is usually on permanent staycation in “stay
current” — the category where songs go on their way from power rotation to
recurrent.
Nationally, CHR has effectively become a format of less than 20 currents
receiving meaningful rotation. (When I took my “virtual road trip” of East
Coast radio in December, the most aggressive stations were the ones
spinning songs in the No. 35-45 range.) It might seem like an odd response
to a wide world of music discovery, but the fraction of the audience most
interested in music discovery has been siphoned off, and it’s not worth
most people’s efforts to fight for them.
Except for Radio Disney. Over the last year or so, that channel has evolved
to what is effectively all-current CHR. There are a few stay-currents, but
I only know that Radio Disney is still playing “Havana” (about 4-7x a week)
because I looked at a monitor. But if you look at those songs spinning 7x a
week or more, there are 57 titles, just a few more than WCAU. The
online-only Radio Disney Country is mostly currents now as well.
Radio Disney is where Keala Settle’s “This Is Me,” from the No.1 “The
Greatest Showman” soundtrack, can actually be heard on the radio in
meaningful rotation. It’s where you can hear Rudimental’s “These Days,” the
rest-of-the-world’s most ubiquitous song right now, day-and-date with every
other territory. It’s where you hear In Real Life, Why Don’t We, and the
other teen acts that Mainstream CHR struggles with at the moment.
There’s not much you can’t hear on Radio Disney now, at least in edited
form. I haven’t heard its version of the Dua Lipa song known on the charts
as “IDGAF,” but I know from monitors that it has one. It’s also playing the
Dustin Atlas & Erin Bowman song whose full title is “Fake Ass Friends,” a
song which has nearly 200 spins between Radio Disney and Sirius XM’s CHR
formats, but almost none from broadcast radio.
“IDGAF” has also pretty well summed up broadcast programmers’ response to
any song that has a story on Radio Disney, Sirius XM Hits 1, or any other
non-broadcast outlet, even now that those stations are chart reporters. In
a recent survey of Country programmers, the importance of “streaming
stories” was finally among their top metrics, but Spotify was not — because
watching it specifically seemed to be too much legitimization. By contrast,
Radio Disney has Spotify playlists and promotes them on-air.
Radio Disney has been trying to close the gap between when listeners find
songs and when broadcast radio plays them. (Its only broadcast outlets are
on HD subchannels, with most listening online or on Sirius XM.) In doing
so, they raise the issue of whether pure pop has any activity outside
broadcast worth tracking, since the best-known stream stories have been the
Hip-Hop titles that CHR struggles to acknowledge (and which you won’t hear
on RD for the most part).
Tied to that is the question of whether teen pop matters in 2018. More than
at any time in the last 25 years, Hip-Hop has again become a soundtrack for
almost any self-respecting teenager. Do acts like Why Don’t We grapple for
acceptance at CHR because the kids like something else? Or because of CHR’s
own odd perspective: Teen idols who have visibly grown up are okay (Demi,
Selena, the Justins); neutral male acts who happen to be youthful (Charlie
Puth, Shawn Mendes) are too. But put two lead singers on any of those songs
and you’ve got a boy band, and those are unhip again.
(There were contradictions in the early ‘90s, too. Teen pop was publicly
discredited post-New Kids on the Block. But a lot of the records that held
CHR radio together through those doldrums were from Color Me Badd,
All-4-One, and Boyz II Men.)
What Radio Disney won’t give you a chance to hear is what a truly balanced
diet would sound like at Mainstream CHR. That’s not its job. If you want to
hear how Why Don’t We and In Real Life sound on the radio, you’ll hear them
within a few songs of each other, not next to “God’s Plan” or “Pray for
Me.” But it’s not as if most Mainstream CHRs are really playing “all the
hits” either. However, even if you’re a CHR PD who is reluctant to
acknowledge Radio Disney as a “story” on a particular song, it’s a good
place to hear how not just teen acts but, say, the new Echosmith sounds
on-air.
Here’s Radio Disney at 9 a.m. Eastern on the morning of March 28:
Keala Settle, “This Is Me”
In Real Life, “Tattoo (How ‘Bout You)”
HRVY, “Personal”
Echosmith, “Over My Head”
Lauv, “I Like Me Better”
Why Don’t We, “Trust Fund Baby”
We The Kings, “Sad Song”
Milo Manheim & Meg Donnelley, “Someday” (from “Zombies”)
J-Hope, “Hope World”
Foster the People, “Sit Next to Me”
Zedd f/Maren Morris & Grey, “The Middle”
Camila Cabello, “Inside Out”
Jack & Jack, “Beg”
Rudimental, “These Days”
Dustin Atlas & Erin Bowman, “Fake A** Friends” (heard here as “Fake
Friends”)
Bruno Mars & Cardi B., “Finesse”
Alice Merton, “No Roots”
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Answer & Streetz On Way To New Frequencies In Little Rock
Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:47 PM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167059/salem-media-acquires-streetz-101-little-rock/
When Salem Media takes over 101.1 KZTS Cammack Village/Little Rock on
Sunday, April 1 it will move the programming of Conservative Talk 96.5 The
Answer KHTE-FM England to KZTS.
Salem will end its Time Brokerage Agreement to operate KHTE-FM, whose
programming will revert to owner Crain Media Group. No word yet on what
that company will do with the station. However, Steve Hegwoods Core
Communicators will move the Urban Streetz format to N C Communications
currently silent 1380 KDXE North Little Rock/105.5 K288EZ Little Rock.
Original Report 3/13: Salem Media will acquire Urban Streetz 101 101.1 KZTS
Cammack Village/Little Rock AR from Flinn Broadcasting for $1.1 million.
The purchase gives Salem a fourth FM in Little Rock as it owns Christian AC
93.3 The Fish KKSP Bryant and Christian Preaching Faith Talk 99.5 KDIS-FM
Little Rock and operates Conservative Talk 96.5 The Answer KHTE-FM England
via Time Brokerage Agreement.
Salem will begin operating KZTS via LMA on April 1.
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People Moves 3/29: A Pair Of On-Air Exits At 105.1 The Bounce
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:08 PM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167450/people-moves-3-29-a-pair-of-on-air-exits-at-105-1-the-bounce/
Along with the Program Director change this week at Beasley Media Classic
Hip-Hop 105.1 The Bounce WMGC-FM Detroit a pair of on-air hosts exited the
station earlier this month.
Comedian Foolish joined The Bounce in July 2017 to co-host Bigg Foolish in
mornings after previously hosting mornings at 97.9 WJLB and Hot 107.5 WGPR
in the market. His presence has been eliminated from the station with the
morning show rebranded as The Morning Bounce with Bigg and Shay Shay
remaining in place.
Original Bounce Ambassador Reggie Reg Davis is also out. Davis originally
served as a weekend host at WMGC-FM and then joined DJ Dinero in nights
last September.
Midwest Communications CHR Y94 93.7 KOYY Fargo ND has promoted morning
co-host Corey Zero Schaefer to Program Director. Schaefer fills the opening
created by Jake Kellys exit last month and will remain part of The Morning
Playhouse with Rat and Maiyah.
Adams Radio Group has announced that O.J. Jackson will retire as VP/General
Manager of its Northwest Indiana cluster on March 31 and be succeeded by
Director of Sales Jennifer Finnerty-Figg.
Jackson has served as GM of the cluster that includes Classic Rock X-Rock
103.9 WXRD, Country Indiana 105.5 WLJE, and AC 107.1 The Z WZVN since 2012
after previously serving as Sales Manager for previous owner Radio One
Communications.
Adams Radio Group is announcing the retirement of accomplished and
award-winning broadcast executive O.J. Jackson, Vice President and General
Manager of Adams Radio Group of Northern Indiana.
Jackson’s retirement goes into effect on March 31st, 2018. Jennifer
Finnerty-Figg, Director of Sales for Adams Radio of Northern Indiana, will
become Vice President General Manager of the Adams Northern Indiana
cluster. President and CEO of Adams Radio Ron Stone says “OJ Jackson has
enjoyed a fine career and will be missed by me and everyone at Adams Radio.
He deserves an amazing retirement given his contributions to radio over the
past 40 years. I have learned a great deal from OJ and it has been a
pleasure to work with him. I, and all of Adams wish him all the best in his
new adventures!” Ron added “Jennifer has been trained by OJ of 15 years for
her new role and I have no doubt whatsoever that she will be amazing in it!
I am very excited for her and look forward to working with Jen as our
newest VP/GM”.
Jackson’s career started in the late ‘60s, including radio and television
stations in Indiana and Michigan as on-air host, weatherman and producer.
Jackson moved into sales and management in Northwest Indiana with Porter
County Broadcasting, owned by the late Country Disc Jockey Hall of Fame
member “Uncle” Len Ellis. He was responsible for the design and building of
a station in Wabash, Indiana for the company, then went on to other
executive positions in radio, television and advertising in Valparaiso and
South Bend before returning to Northwest Indiana to become Vice President
and Sales Manager with Ellis-owned Radio One Communications. In 2012,
Jackson became General Manager of the company, and stations WLJE-FM,
WAKE-AM, WZVN-FM and WXRD-FM, retaining the position when the properties
were acquired by Adams Radio Group in 2014.
During his career in Northwest Indiana Jackson helped lead the way in
creating a regional presence for WLJE-FM and its sister stations. He
created the “Chicago to South Bend” moniker for WLJE, which is still used
today. He also launched the Region News Team brand used by all stations
owned by Adams Radio Group of Northern Indiana.
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Doug Wright To Semi-Retire From KSL Salt Lake City; Dave Noriega & Debbie
Dujanovic To Take Slot
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:55 PM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167453/doug-wright-to-semi-retire-from-ksl-salt-lake-city-dave-noriega-debbie-dujanovic-to-take-slot/
On the fortieth anniversary of his joining Bonneville Media News/Talk 1160
KSL/102.7 KSL-FM Salt Lake City, Doug Wright will step away from his daily
talk show at the station.
Wright joined KSL in 1978 as Production Director and began hosting a daily
talk show in 1986. He will continue hosting The Movie Show on Fridays from
9am-12pm after passing the baton on Monday-Thursday to Debbie Dujanovic and
David Noriega. Dujanovic, who serves as an investigative reporter at KSL-TV
and Noriega, who is a sports producer for the station, will take over the
11am-12pm hour from Wright on Monday, April 2 before absorbing the full
9am-12pm slot in June.
The post Doug Wright To Semi-Retire From KSL Salt Lake City; Dave Noriega
Debbie Dujanovic To Take Slot appeared first on RadioInsight.
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Darryl Parks: Shocking (and insightful) things people say in your career
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:40 PM PDT
https://darrylparks.com/2018/03/29/shocking-and-insightful-things-people-say-in-your-career/
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career appeared first on RadioInsight.
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Cleveland Plain-Dealer: WAPS' 330 Day promotion keeps Akron T-shirt
producers busy
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:30 PM PDT
http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2018/03/330_day_promotion_keeps_akron.html
The post Cleveland Plain-Dealer: WAPS 330 Day promotion keeps Akron T-shirt
producers busy appeared first on RadioInsight.
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To the College Broadcaster I Heard Tonight
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:47 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/ross/167429/to-the-college-broadcaster-i-heard-tonight/
Like a lot of the radio that interests me, I came upon the college
Alternative station I heard tonight by accident. Its name was similar to a
better-known commercial station. That station wasn’t available online, so I
decided to listen. “Sober Up” by AJR was ending. The student on the air
ID’d it as the band “Air.” Then he back-sold M83’s “Midnight City” as by
“M-B-3.” A few breaks later, AWOLnation became “Owl-Nation.”
The student on the air didn’t get all the band names wrong. He didn’t do
anything particularly risible. He made it through a PSA perfunctorily —
clearly reading, but not stumbling. He plowed through a dense weather
forecast a little too quickly. Mostly the breaks were backsells, and most
of them were “that was/this is.”
But even if the broadcast had been more spectacularly bad, there would be
no derision here. Beyond victims of actual tragedies, there is nobody I
feel worse for than Brian Collins, the college sportscaster tormented for
more than a decade for uttering “boom goes the dynamite.” You’re supposed
to stink when you’re a college broadcaster. And you’re supposed to be able
to do it in relative anonymity. If it were allowed to ruin your life,
college radio would have been a serious error in judgment for most of us.
If you also stunk on the radio in college, you’re allowed to laugh at
Collins, but only as a proxy for your own early foibles. If you were one of
those people who somehow became good quickly, and you still enjoy sneering
at somebody who wasn’t, boy, are you ever ungracious about your own gifts.
And if you weren’t on the radio or TV in college, there is zero chance that
you would have been any better any sooner than Brian Collins. So be nice.
I wondered if there was some way to reach the jock on the air, but he was
not indulging in that other telltale trait of college radio newbies —
endlessly giving the request line, then complaining when nobody called.
Besides, with the wisdom of a lifetime, I have finally come to understand
that no one wants to be hot-lined over a mispronunciation. Not even to
avoid doing it a second time. And he probably would have thought I was
trying to prank him into pronouncing “Air” and “MB3” wrong.
But recently, one of my daughter’s friends came home from college and
announced that she was doing a radio show on her Internet station. There
are things I’d like to tell her, and the guy I heard on college radio
tonight:
For starters, I’m glad you’re there. Because I hear about onetime-prominent
college stations that now struggle to fill shifts. My friend who teaches a
college course is often happy for a class of a dozen students or more. I’d
never known radio to be a particular interest of my daughter’s friend
before; I was delighted that radio still held just enough sway to attract
somebody not inextricably drawn there from birth.
If your breaks are mostly “that was/this is” now, I understand. That is
what I often hear listening to college radio. It is, for that matter, what
I often hear listening to commercial broadcast radio. What else do you have
to imitate? For many of us, that first on-air break sounded pukey. We
thought we were imitating our radio heroes, but it was more the parody of
radio that you saw when there was a DJ voice in movies or commercials. But
who would even know to do that now?
If you want to talk about something other than “that was/this is,” you have
choices. I would be happy to know a little something about your school or
your town or your life. My college radio station was full of people who
wanted to be Steve Dahl — Howard Stern hadn’t yet come to prominence — and
just freestyle, or overshare about their lives and opinions. Those results
were often painful (again, they were supposed to be). But I wish I were
coming across Dahl and Stern wannabes now.
How about adapting the contents of your tweets? Because however stilted you
may be on the air today, you may well be funny on social media. If you can
be funny or have content and still be brief enough for a posting
(especially the old Twitter limits), you actually understand the essence of
on-air communication.
In fact, if social media is a strong suit, feel free to talk about it. As a
professional broadcaster, you’ll be asked to do so frequently, and if you
have something better to say than “like us on Facebook, follow us on
Twitter,” you’ll be in good shape. And these days, it may be your off-air
presence that gets you hired.
Please react to the music. My daughter’s friend gets to pick hers. But even
if you’re on the air playing unfamiliar artists, chances are excellent that
friends or roommates have played new music for you before. What did you
tell them (especially if you were trying to be polite)? One of the
attractive things about listening to college radio well into adulthood is
hearing somebody whose passion for the music is not tempered by adult
realities.
And, oh yeah, be yourself. But only if you want to. Because radio is
famously the liberator of the shy. If what you do on the air has some basis
in reality, that’s good. But feel free to enhance it. Scott Shannon would
back me up on this one.
And what is your advice for college broadcasters? Please leave a comment.
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David Hinckley: Don Imus Leaves a Trail of Way More Than Dust
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:40 AM PDT
https://medium.com/@dhinckley/don-imus-leaves-a-trail-of-way-more-than-dust-c46f83eafd81
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Ben Shapiro To Launch In Syndication In Six Major Markets
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 08:14 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167432/ben-shapiro-to-launch-in-syndication-in-six-major-markets/
Westwood One is launching the Ben Shapiro Show into syndication on Monday,
April 2 with seven clearances including six in major markets.
The daily hour-long show will be fed from 5-6pm eastern which is when it
will air on Cumulus Conservative Talk 770 WABC New York. The other launch
affiliates carrying the program will air it at 9pm local time including
Cumulus 790 KABC Los Angeles, 890 WLS Chicago, 630 WMAL/105.9 WMAL-FM
Washington DC, Talk 106.7 WYAY Atlanta, 860 KKAT Salt Lake City, and
Bonnevilles 770 KTTH Seattle.
The daily show is a conversion of Shapiros daily podcast into radio form.
Shapiro is the editor of Conservative site The Daily Wire.
Westwood One, the largest audio network in the U.S., is expanding
distribution of the wildly-popular The Ben Shapiro Show podcast. Launching
on April 2nd, The Ben Shapiro Show will be syndicated across major U.S.
markets including legendary station WABC/New York City; plus KABC/Los
Angeles, WLS/ Chicago, WMAL/Washington D.C.; WYAY/Atlanta, KTTH/Seattle,
and KKAT/Salt Lake City. Weeks before the radio show launches, advertising
time in The Ben Shapiro Show is completely SOLD OUT.
The Ben Shapiro Show podcast has a fiercely loyal following with 15 million
downloads each month. Listeners tuning in to The Ben Shapiro Show on radio
will hear a high-energy, action-packed hour as Ben covers America’s most
powerful political personalities, brutally breaking down the culture, while
never giving an inch.
The Daily Wire and Westwood One are doing something unprecedented: were
launching the first podcast-to-talk radio transition ever,” said Ben
Shapiro. “And were doing it in 5 of the top 10 DMA markets in the country,
which is amazing in and of itself no show launches with this constellation
of stations. We already have an enormous digital audience, and we cant wait
to extend that audience to more traditional platforms.
“Ben’s wildly successful podcast delivers a fresh voice to a new generation
of millennial conservatives and we are excited to take this provocative
narrative to syndicated radio,” said Suzanne Grimes, EVP Marketing, Cumulus
Media and President, Westwood One. “As America’s largest audio network, we
are putting our full weight behind the show to connect Ben with millions of
new listeners across podcast, radio, and streaming platforms.”
Ben Shapiro is editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com, and host of The Ben
Shapiro Show, the top conservative podcast in the nation. He is a leading
conservative speaker on college campuses, consistently defending free
speech and open debate. Shapiro is the author of seven books, including The
New York Times bestseller, “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and
Intimidation Silences America” (2012). Shapiro is also a
nationally-syndicated columnist since age 17, and a graduate of UCLA and
Harvard Law School.
For more information on affiliating or advertising in The Ben Shapiro Show,
please contact Stuart Greenblatt at SGree...@Westwoodone.com.
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B96 Chicago Making Morning Show Change
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 07:44 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167423/b96-chicago-making-morning-show-change/
The J Show is out and Kevin Drex Bucher may be incoming at Entercom CHR B96
96.3 WBBM-FM Chicago.
Jamar J Niice McNeil joined WBBM-FM in 2008 for middays and moved to
mornings at the start of 2009 where he was first paired with Julian Nieh.
Following Niehs departure in 2012 the show was rebranded as The J Show with
J Niice paired with Showbiz Shelly Menaker and producer Gabe Ramirez. While
McNeil and Menaker have already been wiped from the WBBM-FM website Ramirez
remains.
Robert Feder reports that former 103.5 Kiss-FM WKSC morning host Drex is
incoming to fill the newly created opening. Drex hosted mornings at WKSC
from 2003-2010 after a long run in mornings at 102.7 KTFM San Antonio.
After departing Kiss-FM he hosted a nighttime talkshow on Cumulus News/Talk
810 KGO San Francisco from February 2015 until August 2016.
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10 years to the day. Thank you Chicago. Exciting things on the way, hope
you join me for the next part of the adventure. ??? -J
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Americas All-Current CHR Superstation Is
Posted: 29 Mar 2018 07:03 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/ross/167420/americas-all-current-chr-superstation-is/
It’s always an intriguing question for programmers. Could you successfully
program an all-current CHR along the lines of WCAU-FM Philadelphia? WCAU,
now WOGL, famously revitalized the format with a total inventory of 50
titles in fall ‘81/spring ’82. And it did so beginning at a time when CHR
music was at its then-nadir.
That was a long time ago, and all-current is not where CHR lives right now.
Over the last decade, CHR has adapted the lessons of Country and Hot AC —
formats where recurrents are often the most important records on the
station. These days, CHR is usually on permanent staycation in “stay
current” — the category where songs go on their way from power rotation to
recurrent.
Nationally, CHR has effectively become a format of less than 20 currents
receiving meaningful rotation. (When I took my “virtual road trip” of East
Coast radio in December, the most aggressive stations were the ones
spinning songs in the No. 35-45 range.) It might seem like an odd response
to a wide world of music discovery, but the fraction of the audience most
interested in music discovery has been siphoned off, and it’s not worth
most people’s efforts to fight for them.
Except for Radio Disney. Over the last year or so, that channel has evolved
to what is effectively all-current CHR. There are a few stay-currents, but
I only know that Radio Disney is still playing “Havana” (about 4-7x a week)
because I looked at a monitor. But if you look at those songs spinning 7x a
week or more, there are 57 titles, just a few more than WCAU. The
online-only Radio Disney Country is mostly currents now as well.
Radio Disney is where Keala Settle’s “This Is Me,” from the No.1 “The
Greatest Showman” soundtrack, can actually be heard on the radio in
meaningful rotation. It’s where you can hear Rudimental’s “These Days,” the
rest-of-the-world’s most ubiquitous song right now, day-and-date with every
other territory. It’s where you hear In Real Life, Why Don’t We, and the
other teen acts that Mainstream CHR struggles with at the moment.
There’s not much you can’t hear on Radio Disney now, at least in edited
form. I haven’t heard its version of the Dua Lipa song known on the charts
as “IDGAF,” but I know from monitors that it has one. It’s also playing the
Dustin Atlas & Erin Bowman song whose full title is “Fake Ass Friends,” a
song which has nearly 200 spins between Radio Disney and Sirius XM’s CHR
formats, but almost none from broadcast radio.
“IDGAF” has also pretty well summed up broadcast programmers’ response to
any song that has a story on Radio Disney, Sirius XM Hits 1, or any other
non-broadcast outlet, even now that those stations are chart reporters. In
a recent survey of Country programmers, the importance of “streaming
stories” was finally among their top metrics, but Spotify was not — because
watching it specifically seemed to be too much legitimization. By contrast,
Radio Disney has Spotify playlists and promotes them on-air.
Radio Disney has been trying to close the gap between when listeners find
songs and when broadcast radio plays them. (Its only broadcast outlets are
on HD subchannels, with most listening online or on Sirius XM.) In doing
so, they raise the issue of whether pure pop has any activity outside
broadcast worth tracking, since the best-known stream stories have been the
Hip-Hop titles that CHR struggles to acknowledge (and which you won’t hear
on RD for the most part).
Tied to that is the question of whether teen pop matters in 2018. More than
at any time in the last 25 years, Hip-Hop has again become a soundtrack for
almost any self-respecting teenager. Do acts like Why Don’t We grapple for
acceptance at CHR because the kids like something else? Or because of CHR’s
own odd perspective: Teen idols who have visibly grown up are okay (Demi,
Selena, the Justins); neutral male acts who happen to be youthful (Charlie
Puth, Shawn Mendes) are too. But put two lead singers on any of those songs
and you’ve got a boy band, and those are unhip again.
(There were contradictions in the early ‘90s, too. Teen pop was publicly
discredited post-New Kids on the Block. But a lot of the records that held
CHR radio together through those doldrums were from Color Me Badd,
All-4-One, and Boyz II Men.)
What Radio Disney won’t give you a chance to hear is what a truly balanced
diet would sound like at Mainstream CHR. That’s not its job. If you want to
hear how Why Don’t We and In Real Life sound on the radio, you’ll hear them
within a few songs of each other, not next to “God’s Plan” or “Pray for
Me.” But it’s not as if most Mainstream CHRs are really playing “all the
hits” either. However, even if you’re a CHR PD who is reluctant to
acknowledge Radio Disney as a “story” on a particular song, it’s a good
place to hear how not just teen acts but, say, the new Echosmith sounds
on-air.
Here’s Radio Disney at 9 a.m. Eastern on the morning of March 28:
Keala Settle, “This Is Me”
In Real Life, “Tattoo (How ‘Bout You)”
HRVY, “Personal”
Echosmith, “Over My Head”
Lauv, “I Like Me Better”
Why Don’t We, “Trust Fund Baby”
We The Kings, “Sad Song”
Milo Manheim & Meg Donnelley, “Someday” (from “Zombies”)
J-Hope, “Hope World”
Foster the People, “Sit Next to Me”
Zedd f/Maren Morris & Grey, “The Middle”
Camila Cabello, “Inside Out”
Jack & Jack, “Beg”
Rudimental, “These Days”
Dustin Atlas & Erin Bowman, “Fake A** Friends” (heard here as “Fake
Friends”)
Bruno Mars & Cardi B., “Finesse”
Alice Merton, “No Roots”
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Answer & Streetz On Way To New Frequencies In Little Rock
Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:47 PM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167059/salem-media-acquires-streetz-101-little-rock/
When Salem Media takes over 101.1 KZTS Cammack Village/Little Rock on
Sunday, April 1 it will move the programming of Conservative Talk 96.5 The
Answer KHTE-FM England to KZTS.
Salem will end its Time Brokerage Agreement to operate KHTE-FM, whose
programming will revert to owner Crain Media Group. No word yet on what
that company will do with the station. However, Steve Hegwoods Core
Communicators will move the Urban Streetz format to N C Communications
currently silent 1380 KDXE North Little Rock/105.5 K288EZ Little Rock.
Original Report 3/13: Salem Media will acquire Urban Streetz 101 101.1 KZTS
Cammack Village/Little Rock AR from Flinn Broadcasting for $1.1 million.
The purchase gives Salem a fourth FM in Little Rock as it owns Christian AC
93.3 The Fish KKSP Bryant and Christian Preaching Faith Talk 99.5 KDIS-FM
Little Rock and operates Conservative Talk 96.5 The Answer KHTE-FM England
via Time Brokerage Agreement.
Salem will begin operating KZTS via LMA on April 1.
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