Posts Tagged ‘Issue 473’
Three Michigan Stations Receive 2025 Marconi Honors
WJR-AM (Detroit) afternoon personality Mitch Albom and Audacy’s WOMC-FM and WXYT-FM (both Detroit) received the prestigious award. The awards were presented this past Tuesday (10/21) in New York City.
Read MoreDowntown Detroit Partnership and WDIV-TV Announce Exclusive Broadcast Partnership
The Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP) and WDIV-TV (Detroit) announced a new broadcast rights partnership for the 22nd annual Detroit Tree Lighting presented by DTE Energy Foundation and produced by the Downtown Detroit Partnership taking place Friday, November 21, 2025, in the award-winning Campus Martius Park in Downtown Detroit.
Read MoreWLEN Opens Annual Hometown Hope Applications
Lenawee Broadcasting’s WLEN-FM (Adrian) has opened the applications for its Hometown Hope Marketing Grant for 2026. Twelve groups will be picked to get a full month of radio ads, social media posts, and interviews on WLEN to help share their mission.
Read MoreDetroit TV & Radio Legend Bob Hynes Dies at 93
Longtime Detroit TV and radio personality Bob Hynes died last Friday (10/17) in California, following a brief illness, according to a family spokesperson. The Saginaw native hosted his own morning show on WXYZ-TV for five years beginning in 1966.
Read MoreUpdated Shutdown News
We would normally provide you with some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. But, as the government shutdown has drastically limited activity at the FCC, and as Congress did not produce significant news this week while focused on the shutdown and other activity, we thought that we should provide some reminders on specific regulatory activity that is curtailed by the shutdown and about some of the issues that may arise once it is resolved.
Read MoreProgrammers To The Rescue…
By no means do I claim to be a sales expert, but as a long-term programmer, I feel compelled to come up with some ideas that we can implement today, quickly, to help our on-the-street sales forces close more business. What I’m about to suggest may seem simple, maybe even a little old-school, but at least it’s something we can do right now to help stem this revenue problem.
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