Radio Daily for 06-03-20

Radio Daily for Wednesday, June 3, 2020

RAB and NAB Will Not Move Forward with 2020 Radio Show

Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) President and CEO Erica Farber and National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President and CEO Gordon Smith issued the following letter on Wednesday regarding plans for the 2020 Radio Show: Dear Radio Show community, As the radio industry More

Entravision Appoints Chris Munoz to EVP/National Sales

Entravision has appointed Chris Munoz to the executive leadership team as the Executive Vice President of National Sales. Munoz will oversee the company's national spot television, national spot radio, network radio and national digital audio platforms. This appointment took effect on June 1. "Chris is More

Magnum Media to Acquire Three Outlets in La Crosse WI

Mississippi Valley Broadcasters, dba La Crosse Media Group, has agreed to sell 18kW Country WQCC-FM (106.3), 4kW Oldies KQEG-FM (102.7) and 1kW News/Talk WLFN-AM (1490)/La Crosse, WI to Magnum Communications, dba Magnum Media. Terms were not imeediaterly disclosed. Mississippi Valley More

MacDonald Broadcasting/Saginaw Appoints Jason Addams OM

Jason Addams joins MacDonald Broadcasting as Operations Manager and Program Director of its four-station cluster in Saginaw, MI, including Country WKCQ, Adult Hits WMJO (97.3 Joe FM) and AC WSAM-WSAG (The Bay). He'll also handle afternoons at WKCQ. He replaces Brian Hatfield, who left last March, Addams More

Urban One Set to Host ''We Are One'' Virtual Town Hall

Urban One has announced the presentation of a virtual town hall to discuss the current political and racial climate plaguing the African American community entitled, "We Are One: More Than A Hashtag," on Thursday, June 4 at 8pm ET. The one-hour virtual town hall will stream live on More

Cox Media Group Eexecutive VP/CFO Brett Fennell Exits

Cox Media Group Executive VP and Chief Fianacial Officer Brett Fennell has reportedly exited, where he had overseen the company's financial performance and profitability strategies. Fennell was appointed CFO in 2014, added Executive VP of National Ad Platforms in 2016 and then remained CFO during the More

KCQQ and KUUL/Quad Cities IA Elevate Mark Manuel to PD

Veteran air personality Mark Manuel is elevated to Program Director of iHeartMedia Classic Rock KCQQ-FM (Q106.5) and CHR KUUL-FM (101-3 Kiss FM)/Quad Cities, IA. He'll continue to serve as Web Content Director for the cluster and host afternoons on Q106.5. Before iHM, Manuel hosted mornings on Oldies More

WZZR and WRLX/West Palm Beach Swap Signals

iHeartMedia West Palm Beach announced today that Real Radio WZZR and Mia WRLX are interchanging signals. Beginning today, Real Radio will now broadcast on 92.1 and Mia will broadcast on 94.3. Real Radio 92.1 will continue to be the Palm Beach Hot Talk leader. Listeners can tune in to hear the station's More

How Are You Responding?

When I created the Dealing with Tragedy seminar on demand, I didn't expect emergencies on top of emergencies. But here we are. Most of my clients have asked what they should do following last week's George Floyd murder and the ensuing protests worldwide. There is no single answer. And this is a very More

Report: No Audience Impact From COVID-19 in Markets 50-100

According to just-released Nielsen data from an April 2020 listening analysis of 44 diary markets, and cited by Westwood One's Insights team on its blog, there was no audience impact from COVID-19 in markets ranked 50-100. AM/FM radio retained 97% of prior listening volumes in these markets with only a -3% More