Gray Television’s WILX-TV’s (Lansing) March Make an Impact was held March 21-25 in support of the Capital Area Diaper Bank. Thanks to viewer donations, the event will help more than 2,200 babies with the the diapers and cash raised. The Capital Area Diaper Bank is a non-profit, operated completely by volunteers, that supplies baby diapers…
Former National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President and Chief Executive Officer Senator Gordon H. Smith has been nominated by the Beasley Media Group Board of Directors to be added to the slate of Directors to be presented at the annual shareholders meeting on May 25th. The official unanimous vote took place during the company’s Board…
WKAR Public Media alerts us that PBS was recently named the most trusted media organization for the 19th year in a row, according to a nationwide survey. PBS continues to outscore government institutions and media sources— such as broadcast, cable, streaming and social media— in both value and trust, respectively. According to survey results, 80%…
By: Seth Resler Jacobs Media Strategies As a digital marketer, it’s easy to get caught up in the latest trend. We tend to dismiss digital tactics that have been around for a while simply because they have been around for a while. Yet some of these stalwarts, while not sexy, still have value in them.…
By: David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week (April 2-8), with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. Broadcast operations that use uninterruptable power supply (UPS) devices as either…
Michigan Radio has announced the hiring of Matt Shafer Powell as the station’s new Program Director. As the Program Director, Matt Shafer Powell will help lead the station’s on-air hosts, manage the station’s program schedule and be responsible for the overall sound of Michigan Radio, the state’s largest public radio service. He will also engage…
WLEW-AM/FM (Bad Axe) News Director Craig Routzahn signed off for the final time following the station’s 1 p.m. newscast last Friday (4/1). Routzahn holds the record as the longest serving continuous on-air personality at the station with 46-1/2 years behind the microphone. Routzahn joined the station in the fall of 1975, hired by Station Manager…
Beasley Media Group has announced that Lynn Montemayor has been named as the General Sales Manager of the company’s Detroit-based radio properties, including WRIF-FM, WCSX-FM, WMGC-FM, WDMK-FM, Detroit PRAISE Network and Motor City Sports Talk The ROAR. She most recently spent four years as a Partner & Chief Marketing Officer of Fortysix/5, a Motor City-based…
By: David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP Last week, the US House of Representatives passed the MORE Act which, if enacted, would take marijuana off the list of Schedule I drugs – those drugs whose possession and distribution is a federal felony, as is the use of the radio waves to promote their use. As we have warned before…
On April 6, WDRQ-FM (Detroit) (New Country 93.1) has launched a new morning show, “Goose & Renee,” bringing together current morning personality Renee Vitale with Aaron “Goose” Seller weekdays from 5:30 – 10 a.m. Seller started his 23-year radio career in 1999 in Detroit’s Fisher Building, home of Cumulus Detroit, and has been heard on…