RBR analysis: Farewell to Austin
OK, the NAB Radio Show in Austin started off with a real downer. The bankers on the first panel at the Dickstein Shapiro broadcast finance confab were the physical embodiment of gloom and doom
Marconi winners announced in Austin
Winners of the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters Marconi Radio Awards were announced Thursday night at the annual NAB Marconi Radio Awards Dinner &...
NAB: HD Radio content sees strong momentum
iBiquity Digital announced significant momentum in the expansion of HD Radio content for HD2/HD3 multicast channels, including new audio formats and groundbreaking consumer data...
RadioTime buys RadioSherpa
RadioTime, Inc., a developer of technology for finding and listening to radio online, today announced it has acquired RadioSherpa, which provides a real-time program...
WWI/CBS Radio will air Palin interview
CBS News anchor Katie Couric scored a big “get,” an interview with Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin (R-AK), and the CBS family will make...
Westwood One re-engineers Metro Traffic
Emulating successful broadcast weather operations, Westwood One is going to pull its Metro Traffic service from 60 local operations to 13 regional hubs. That...
Martin open to resolving localism issues
Under questioning at the NAB Radio Show in Austin, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin acknowledged angst among broadcasters who think the Commission’s pending proposal to...
Hail to the chiefs!
“Bring back the local read,” said Pierre Bouvard, President Sales & Marketing, Arbitron, who also proposed that each station turn over a piece of its inventory to its national rep exclusively
Radio’s problem is perception
All of the group heads said their companies were embracing new technology to put their content on new platforms, but a lot of the discussion was about programming – developing the content
Bonneville uses HD to bring WorldBand to DC
Washington DC is a multilingual community, and Bonneville International is going to take advantage of an HD side channel on its Newser WTOP-FM to...
KLBJ selects ConvoCast for audience-powered content
KLBJ AM 590 Austin, TX, an Emmis station, announced a partnership with ConvoCast, a voice-enabled audio community company that has created an innovative platform...
Content Factory adds “Into the Night With Tony Bruno”
Veteran sportscaster Tony Bruno will add to the growing roster of The Content Factory. Tony's career spans two decades including stints with ESPN and...
Group PD's embrace PPM
“I can’t wait. Atlanta is our first market,” said Lincoln Financial Media VP of Programming and Operations John Dimick as he spoke of Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM) on a panel with other group PDs
Radio’s red plague continues
Who woulda thunk that CL King’s Jim Boyle was overly optimistic the other day when he predicted that radio was going to drop 8%-9%...
The Laura Ingraham Show adds WBAP, KVI
Yet more of the show's 17 New M-F stations being announced: Talk Radio Network Enterprises' The Laura Ingraham Show debuts September 22 on Citadel/ABC's...