Vote early, vote often for Hall candidates
Free Press has taken note of the "Distinguished Service Award" being presented to Clear Channel honcho Lowry Mays at NAB2005 in Las Vegas 4/18/05. And not to be outdone, they are holding a vote of their own, which features another chance for Mr. Mays to come out on top. He will face stiff competition, however, for entry into the Big Media Hall of Shame.
Free Press is currently soliciting votes at its website, and will announce the winner at the National Conference for Media Reform, which is being held 5/14/05 at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis.
The candidates: David Smith of Sinclair, Rupert Murdoch of News Corp., Mays, recently-departed FCC Chairman Michael Powell and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. There is also a mystery candidate #6 - - if you think a deserving candidate is not included among the five above, you're free to write in your own nominee.
Annual conference assesses non-commercial radio
Leaders from hundreds of community radio stations around the country will gather at the National Federation of Community Broadcasters' (NFCB) 30th annual conference, April 13-16, 2005, in Baltimore. NFCB, founded 30 years ago in 1975 to address the challenges facing community, noncommercial radio, will use this 30th annual conference to reconsider the state of Community Radio in today's media environment. Community Radio stations will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing stations in the US such as media consolidation, restrictive regulatory issues, funding challenges, expanded channels to provide more public service, and LPFM.
The conference will also include the 7th National Youth in Radio Training Project Conference where 200 young (high school aged and a little older) radio producers and their adult project directors will come together for two days of workshops, listening sessions, intensives, and hands-on experience.
Randy Price announces retirement after 29 years in broadcasting
Randy Price, SVP and Chief Technology Officer for the Journal Broadcast Group will retire from his position, effective May 31. The announcement was made today by Doug Kiel, Journal CEO.
In the past 15 years, Price spearheaded the Journal Broadcast Group's build out to digital plants, HDTV and HD Radio. Price has managed through tape format transitions in television news gathering, radio's clustering of stations in a single operation and led the company's efforts to link traditional broadcast engineering with the information technology advances of a digital high speed business.
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