A breakthrough new study that proves the incremental value of genuinely reflecting culture in marketing creative was unveiled today by The Association of National Advertisers' (ANA) Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM). The Cultural Insights Impact Measure (CIIM) was developed More

iHeartMedia Louisville Names Brent Johnson as GSM

iHeartMedia announced today that Brent Johnson has been named General Sales Manager, effective immediately. He will report to Kristy Beebe, SVP of Sales for iHeartMedia Kentucky-Indiana and be responsible for driving revenue growth and overseeing sales opportunities for 97.5 WAMZ, 100.5 KISS FM, More

Kim Reis Exits Entercom as VP/Digital Market Operations

Kim Reis

Entercom VP/Digital Market Operations Kim Reis exits the company after her position was eliminated. She has worked in the media industry for 26 years and joined the radio giant as Director of Digital Audience Engagement in July, 2013. Prior to her tenure at Entercom, she was Digital Media & More

Alexus Parker Joins National Radio Talent System as ID

Alexus Parker

The National Radio Talent System welcomes new Institutes Director Alexus Parker. She'll work directly with the broadcasters, universities and students of the Radio Talent Institutes, and managing social media. Prior to joining NRTS, parker was the Marketing Director for the iHeartMedia's cluster of More

Veteran Music Journalist, Radio Host Dauphin Dead at 45

Chuck Dauphin

CMA Award-winning journalist and veteran radio host Chuck Dauphin has died at Nashville's Alive Hospice following a series of complications from diabetes. He was 45. From 2011 until his death, he was a principle country music contributor at Billboard. Dauphin rarely turned down the More

Nick Reed Elevated to KSGF/Springfield Program Director

Nick Reed

SummitMedia/Springfield, MO, elevates Nick Reed to Program Director of News/Talk KSGF-FM (104.1). He joined KSGF in 2010 as PD/morning host but has focused on hosting the morning show for that past several years. Reed begins his new duties effective immediately, while continuing as an on-air host. More

Raina Douris Named New Host of NPR's World Cafe

WXPN, the member-supported public radio station of the University of Pennsylvania and producer of the NPR-distributed daily music program World Cafe, today announced that Raina Douris will become the new host of World Cafe starting on October 7. Douris, an award-winning radio personality from More

Edison Research Debuts The Infinite Dial South Africa 2019

Edison Research

The Infinite Dial, a study on digital audio from Edison Research, debuted in South Africa last week as Edison Research President Larry Rosin presented the findings in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. The study was commissioned by South Africa's National More

Beasley's 1450 AM WCTC Adds Gordon Deal Morning Show

Gordon Deal

Beasley Media Group announces News Talk Radio 1450 AM WCTC will debut This Morning - America's First News with Gordon Deal from 5am to 9am weekday mornings beginning on Monday, September 23 in New Jersey. The syndicated show can currently be heard on more than 275 markets across the United More

Premios de la Radio to Reveal Nominees Via Cross-Platforms

Premios de la Radio

Spanish-language broadcaster LBI Media has announced that it will reveal the full list of nominees for its 2019 Premios de la Radio in a new live format on October 7. For the first time in its 20-year history, Premios de la Radio will not announce its nominees via More

Victor Zaragoza Returns to News KCBS-AM/San Francisco

Victor Zaragoza

Victor "Big Daddy" Zaragoza returns to Entercom News KCBS-AM/San Francisco to handle sports and traffic reporting. Most recently, he aired in afternoons at co-owned Rhythmic Oldies KRBQ-FM (Q102.1) until his post was eliminated in August. Previously, he was a traffic reporter at KCBS in 2017. More

Jacapps V4 Platform is Now Integrated With Aptivada

jacapps

jacapps has announced that its mobile app platform, known as V4, has integrated with the Aptivada user management platform. This integration means that any of the hundreds of radio stations on the V4 platform who are Aptivada clients can now utilize Aptivada's registration features. jacapps COO More

Pioneering Veteran Journalist Cokie Roberts Dead at 75

Cokie Roberts

Radio Online is very sad to report acclaimed journalist and author Cokie Roberts has died at age 75. The cause of death has been reported as complications from breast cancer. Roberts recently acknowledge she'd had "health issues" over the summer and was doing fine. Over her illustrious career, More

iHeartMedia Baltimore Names Lynn Polovoy Market President

Lynn Polovoy

iHeartMedia appoints Lynn Polovoy as Market President for Baltimore, effective immediately. She has more than two decades of sales experience, most recently serving as Vice President of Sales for iHeartMedia Baltimore. Polovoy has also served as the General Sales Manager and account manager for More

Salem Media Group Shrinks Board to Reduce Costs

Salem Media Group

Salem Media Group has announced the resignation of board members James Keet Lewis, Jonathan Venverloh, Stuart W. Epperson Jr. and Edward C. Atsinger from its board of directors, effective September 11. SMG's CEO Edward G. Atsinger III commented, "The board More

Hilton Introduces iHeartRadio to Connected Room Platform

iHeartRadio

Hilton has announced a new integration with iHeartRadio to allow guests to stream live radio stations, music playlists and podcasts directly from their TVs through Hilton's high-tech Connected Room guest technology platform. This marks yet another Connected Room feature that allows guests even more More