Aggregator

Broadcast Media's Most Prestigious Leadership Conference — Forecast 2025 — begins on Wednesday morning at the Harvard Club in breezy Midtown Manhattan, and the VIP-exclusive annual symposium has just secured two big names from the advertising and marketing world. 

The VP of Sales for iHeartMedia's radio properties across Amish Country and the Lehigh Valley has been promoted to Market President, putting her in charge of the company's properties in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton and Reading, Pa., radio markets.

She's the former Chief Marketing Officer of Angi Inc., and directed the rebrand of what was once Angie's List. Now, she has been tapped to serve in the role of VP and "Chief Experience Officer" for the owner of Premion and a collection of broadcast TV stations including flagship CBS affiliate WUSA9.

The goal of this exercise is to remove the opportunity for error in our systems

The post How We Automate Downloads of Audio From FTP appeared first on Radio World.

Fred Jacobs says most PDs have not been taught to even consider the dynamics of metadata

The post Getting the Most From Metadata Is a Mindset Issue appeared first on Radio World.

It is presently one of three signals offering listeners Country music found across a wide swath of the Keystone State under the "Froggy" brand. It covers the western portion of the Pittsburgh market; Wheeling, W. Va.; and Cadiz, Ohio. Soon, it will be another Member station tied to an Educational Media Foundation brand.

In February 2023, the estate of Tejano music pioneer and evangelical broadcast ministry owner Paulino Bernal was put in control of his wife. It was in June 2024 when the FCC received the necessary paperwork required to transfer the late owner's AMs to the family matriarch. Now, a LMS filing indicates that the estate has agreed to part ways with one of those stations.

On November 1, the call letters of a Class B1 FM serving the Columbus, Ohio, market from the southeastern suburb of Baltimore, Ohio, changed along with its programming. Now, just days after the K-LOVE Christian Contemporary non-comm network debuted under a lease deal, the network's parent is agreeing to purchase the facility.

“Turkey Tour” brings in 1.5 tons of donations

The post KRBE Gathers Hunger Bags appeared first on Radio World.

In its draft order to be acted on this month, the commission did not accept NAB's suggested approach

The post Geotargeting Rules Will Lack a Standard for Synchronization  appeared first on Radio World.

Stations currently eligible for full listings on LPFM.us, the official national LPFM station directory.

.

.

.

Vietnam's VOV Giao Thông adds a range a Lawo digital consoles and AoIP routing solutions

The post VOV Traffic Service Upgrades for Expansion appeared first on Radio World.

“The broadcast industry can use their powerful voices to improve the lives of their listeners.” How are these words from broadcast industry veteran Kelly Orchard, who holds a Master's in Psychology, perhaps more important than ever? Learn by listening to this classic RBR+TVBR InFocus podcast, hosted by editor-in-chief Adam R Jacobson.

It was anticipated, but unconfirmed. Then, in the 2pm Eastern hour, Salem Media Group's third quarter 2024 earnings report arrived. How did the company focused on Christian-themed and conservative secular spoken word programming perform in the three-month period ending September 30?

A particularly problematic situation in the Washington, D.C. market, involving the owner of CBS affiliate WUSA9 is once again engaged in difficult negotiations with a MVPD regarding a new retransmission consent agreement. Could this lead to a "blackout" of the station to paying customers of a regional competitor to Comcast?

The new multi-year linear and digital rights agreement sees the rebranded FanDuel Sports Network Midwest, formerly a Bally Sports property, serve as the St. Louis Cardinals' exclusive local media partner.

Amid industry-wide conversations regarding a significant reduction-in-force initiative at iHeartMedia, "key leadership promotions" have come to the company's Los Angeles radio stations. At the same time, two veteran programmers — husband and wife — have resigned from KFI and "AM 570 L.A. Sports." What does this mean for a cluster of stations that are among iHeart's top billers?