Broadcasting Industry News
WWJ-AM Celebrates 100 Years On The Air!
This week, Entercom’s WWJ-AM (Detroit) celebrated a century of service to Southeast Michigan. It was August 20, 1920 when experimental station 8MK began broadcasting and has continued to broadcast news, information, sports and entertainment each day since. Not only was WWJ Detroit’s first radio station, it was the first commercial broadcaster in the country. It…
Read MoreWKHQ’s Robby and Rochelle Host 100th Episode of Morning Show
This past Tuesday (8/18), Robby and Rochelle (Robby Bridges and Rochelle Gagnon) hosted their 100th episode of the The 106 KHQ Morning Show on MacDonald Garber Broadcasting’s heritage Adult Top 40 WKHQ-FM (Traverse City). The duo presented highlights of their favorite moments on the show so far and featured some surprises and special guests calling…
Read MoreTCF Bank Spartan Media Network Set to Begin Broadcasting This Month
Michigan State Athletics and Fox Sports College Properties announced today a new partnership with TCF Bank to rebrand the statewide Spartan Sports Network as the TCF Bank Spartan Media Network. In addition, long-term extensions were announced with the three flagship stations that anchor the network: Detroit’s WJR 760-AM, Lansing’s WVFN 730/WJIM 1240-AM and 94.9 WMMQ-FM,…
Read MoreFlint City Bucks Games to Air Sundays on WBSF
The 2019 USL2 National Champion Flint City Bucks will have their games televised live on Cunningham Broadasting’s WBSF-TV (Flint). The first live telecast for the soccer team will be Sunday, August 23 from 12 to 2 p.m. when they host Midwest United FC at Kettering University’s Atwood Stadium in Flint. Because of the state’s Executive…
Read MoreEntercom Launches ‘Breaking Down the Barriers’ on WWJ News Radio 950 in Detroit
Entercom has announced the launch of “Breaking Down The Barriers,” a two-part community programming initiative on WWJ-AM (Detroit) to celebrate the diversity of the city and its surrounding suburbs. The initiative will include two segments, “Voices of the Community” and “Black Business Minute,” both began August 10. “Breaking Down the Barriers” is part of Entercom’s…
Read MoreWCMU Public Media Hosts Town Hall on Moving Forward from Flooding
On August 11, WCMU Public Media and the Midland Center for the Arts hosted a one-hour virtual town hall titled “Moving Forward: Midland.” The town hall was a forum to talk about how businesses, nonprofits and families are moving forward, following millions of dollars of flood damage in the Midland area which occurred on top…
Read MoreNPR’s ‘1A’ to Takeover Michigan Radio’s ‘Stateside’ Next Week
By: Steven Chrypinski, Michigan Radio The speculation about Governor Whitmer as a potential vice presidential candidate has been put to rest, but Michigan is still in the national political spotlight for the November election. Next Tuesday, Jenn White, host of NPR’s national 1A program, will be taking over Michigan Radio’s Stateside show to talk with…
Read MoreWKHM Debuts The Chamber Show
McKibbin Media Group has announced the debut of “The Chamber Show,” a monthly program to air on the company’s WKHM-AM (Jackson). Presented in partnership with The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, the show hosted by Pat O’Dowd, Business Development Manager and Tim Booth, Events and Legislative Affairs Manager will tell the story of the Chamber,…
Read MoreGordon Smith Health Update: ‘Prognosis Is Extremely Positive’
The MAB Newsletter reported last Friday (8/7) that NAB President/CEO Gordon Smith suffered a stroke on the Wednesday prior. However, it was not a stroke, with Smith releasing a statement late Thursday (8/6) through the NAB saying, “I am delighted to tell you that after a very extensive MRI last night it was discovered that…
Read MoreWIKB Presents Virtual Livestock Auction
With the COVID-19 Pandemic here, Iron River Community Broadcasting’s WIKB-FM (Iron River) conducted avirtual livestock auction on August 7 in conjunction with the Iron County Youth Market Livestock Council (ICYMLC). The auction was heard on WIKB-FM 99.1 and also available with a live online video feed on WIKB’s and ICYMLC’s Facebook pages. Bidding can be…
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