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Well Entercom Adds AM Simulcast For ‘The Game’ In San Francisco.

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Entercom has launched a new sports outlet, “1550 The Game” KGMZ San Francisco, which will simulcast programming content from “95.7 The Game” KGMZ-FM. The new “Game” in town will also air Oakland A’s baseball when there is a conflict with Golden State Warriors basketball on KGMZ-FM.

“With the overlap of play-by-play between our athletic partners, we launched sports content on the AM frequency to provide our fans with more options to listen to all of their favorite games,” senior VP/market manager Gregory Nemitz said. “This also gives us the opportunity in the future to create additional exclusive programming on 1550-AM to super serve Bay Area sports fans.”

The weekday on-air lineup now heard on both “95.7 The Game” and “1550 The Game” features: Joe Fortenbaugh, Lorenzo Neal and Dan Dibley (6-10am); Matt Steinmetz & Daryle “The Guru” Johnson (10am-12pm); “The Greg Papa Show” with Greg Papa and Bonta Hill (12-3pm)
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Well Triton Digital Integrates DynAdmic Into A2x Marketplace.

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Triton Digital announced the integration of its a2x programmatic audio marketplace with DynAdmic, a content-targeted video ad network whose technology analyzes spoken-word audio for targeted ad placement.

DynAdmic’s audio recognition technology analyzes spoken-word inventory in podcasts and talk radio to understand the topics being discussed and then assigns categories and keyworks based on those topics, which advertisers can then use to target their ads.

Under the partnership, DynAdmic will use its proprietary audio recognition technology to offer its advertisers digital audio inventory within the a2x marketplace.

“We are pleased to have integrated DynAdmic with a2x and are proud to provide their clients with access to highly targeted inventory from the world’s top audio publishers,” said Triton Digital managing director, market development and strategy Benjamin Masse. “Everybody wins with targeted ads, as they greatly improve the lis
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The IHeart Music Festival Dates And Daytime Stage Acts Announced.

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The iHeartRadio Music Festival returns to Las Vegas Sept. 21 and 22, with the first acts for its Saturday Daytime Stage announced on Monday. Headlining will be Dua Lipa, 5 Seconds of Summer, Lil Uzi Vert, Dustin Lynch, Bazzi, Belly, Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots, and Greta Van Fleet. The main stage performance lineup for the 2018 event will be announced in the coming months.

The main event takes place at T-Mobile Arena, while the Daytime Stage is hosted at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. In addition to live performances, the latter will feature fan zones and interactive experiences from iHeartRadio’s brand partners. They include 1800 Tequila, Bai Beverage, Bioré Skincare, Capital One, The CW Network, Macy’s and Taco Bell. Tickets for the Daytime Stage go on sale Thursday, May 3.

The “Macy’s iHeartRadio Rising Star” talent search will return for the seventh year, providing emerging artists the chance to perform onstage
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HOT NEWS:- Entercom Recruits Digital Publishing Execs To Radio.Com.

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Entercom has recruited a pair of digital publishing vets in new executive roles at Radio.com as it prepares to make a strategic shift at the streaming audio platform it acquired last November from CBS Radio.

Pamela Russo, most recently with Meredith Corp., will join as senior VP and general manager on April 30, while Entertainment Weekly executive editor of digital Christopher Rosen comes on board as editorial director.

Entercom says Russo will oversee the Radio.com brand and business, focusing on advertiser and consumer products, client development and revenue growth, content and talent partnerships, distribution strategy, and audience development. Tapping into the company’s radio stations and live events, she’s tasked with developing the streaming service’s brand voice and positioning, while building out its staff to a quickly grow the platform.

Rosen will take a content development role, overseeing editorial and video strategy, while m
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State Lawmaker Asks FCC To Revoke St. Louis Station’s License.

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A Missouri state lawmaker is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to revoke the license of a St. Louis radio station for racist and offensive comments made by one of its hosts. Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis) has sent a letter to FCC chair Ajit Pai accusing Entertainment Media Trust classic country/talk KQQZ (1190) of violating the FCC’s rules against obscenity, indecency and profanity.

At issue are comments made by Bob Romanik, host of “Kool Killer Kountry,” who is known for using the n-word and “various misogynistic and homophobic slurs over the years,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Romanik made headlines in recent days after Rep. Bob Burns (D-St. Louis County) called into the show and defended the host, triggering a backlash and calls for Burns to resign.

An excerpt from the show posted on YouTube includes Romanik talking about “a movement for the white people.” In the snippet, Burns said he listened to the s
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Well Looking Back At Hurricane Maria: The Importance Of AM Radio.

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When the power goes out, a $5 transistor radio is more valuable than a $500 smartphone. That is certainly a lesson learned from last September’s Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, which left residents with a single source of information: AM radio. Just how valuable it became is the subject of an in-depth feature in Columbia Journalism Review, titled “After Hurricane Maria, AM radio makes a comeback in Puerto Rico.”

As the hurricane approached last fall, many television stations knew they would lose power and actually shuttered during the storm. Wifi was decimated, leaving “old-fashioned” radio as the single media lifeline. “Maria erased the world of journalism in Puerto Rico,” says Carolina Rodriguez Plaza, production manager for the news team at WORA-TV Mayagüez. “It reemerged in a new form, with radio playing an important role.”

As Hurricane Maria’s 150-mile-per-hour winds toppled power lines and torrential rains grounded out the is
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Brad Kelly: Advertisers Having ‘Light Bulb Moment’ With Radio.

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Radio’s ability to reach more consumers on a weekly basis than TV or smartphones has major brand marketers rediscovering its ability to connect with consumers. Advertisers are having a “light bulb moment” with radio, says Nielsen Audio managing director Brad Kelly in an interview with MediaVillage.

“Now, the pendulum is swinging towards radio and audio as a whole,” Kelly tells journalist Alli Romano, who has covered digital media, radio and broadcast and cable TV for industry publications including Inside Radio, Broadcasting & Cable, TVNewscheck.com and Multichannel News. “Billion-dollar advertisers are re-discovering the power of radio and how it can augment, supplement and amplify their campaigns.”

Consumer packaged goods giants have begun to funnel dollars back into radio– Procter & Gamble invested $6.7 million in radio in the first half of 2017, six times more than in the same period in 2016 according to Kantar Media
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Close Tribune Buy, Sinclair Will Sell 23 Stations In 18 Markets.

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Aiming to appease regulators and accelerate the closing of its $3.9 purchase of Tribune Media, Sinclair Broadcast Group says it will sell 23 TV stations in 18 markets to six different buyers. The spinoffs add seven new markets to the original 11 the company had earmarked for sale back in February.

Tribune Media CEO Peter Kern said Sinclair’s latest move was intended to “pave the way for regulatory approval” of the blockbuster deal.

The buyers include Cunningham Broadcasting, Standard Media Group, Howard Stirk Holdings, Meredith Corp, a company affiliated with the CEO of Maryland-based Atlantic Automotive Corp. and a sixth party that hasn’t been announced.

“After a very robust divestiture process, with strong interest from many parties, we have achieved healthy multiples on the stations we are divesting,” Sinclair president and CEO Chris Ripley said in a statement. “While we continue to believe that we had a strong and supportable r
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A Mass Appeal Monoliths AC, Classic Hits Reach New Ratings Peaks.

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Christmas brings AC radio a huge cume infusion – the tricky part is trying to retain some of that ratings rocket boost, while luring back listeners that found a new favorite station when the Yule music was playing 24/7. Based on a new analysis of first quarter listening data, AC programmers have cracked the ratings code, delivering the format’s best numbers in seven years.

The usual scenario sees AC fall back to earth after the Holiday book ends and the influx of new listeners tails off. “This year has been different, however, with AC surging to one of its best starts to the year (post-holiday) that we have seen in PPM measurement, particularly with Millennial audiences,” Nielsen says in a new analysis released Wednesday. In fact, in the PPM markets, AC posted its highest first quarter share of 18-34 year-olds in any year since Nielsen began tracking national format trends in 2011.

AC cracked an 8.0 share among Millennials for the first time,
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Latest Edison Study: AM/FM Radio Grabs 50% ‘Share Of Ear’ In.

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AM/FM radio continues to dominate a rapidly expanding audio universe in the U.S., accounting for half the time Americans spend listening to audio. AM/FM grabbed a 50% “share of ear” according to new first quarter 2018 data from Edison Research – more than triple that of streaming audio. The new numbers include both AM/FM radio delivered over the air and via online streaming. But broadcast radio receivers are far and away the top device for listening to audio.

Since its inception four years ago, Edison’s quarterly Share Of Ear studies have become the de facto way to stack various audio sources up against one another to see how Americans allocate their audio time. With AM/FM, streaming and podcasts each measured by different measurement providers, using different methodologies, Share Of Ear has emerged as the definite single-source barometer for all things audio.

At 50%, the amount of time Americans 13+ spend with AM/FM is more than triple that for streaming audi
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