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Radio Royalty Roundtable: Execs Tackle The Issues.

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How’s the music industry’s new push to secure a performance royalty from AM/FM airplay playing among broadcasters? Inside Radio caught up with some executives in a virtual roundtable to gauge their reaction. Has your view of radio paying a performance royalty changed at all over the past few years? Jonathan Brewster, CEO, Cherry Creek Media:..
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The Great Performance Royalty Debate That Would Retune Radio.

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It’s the same, only different. That’s the way many observers on both sides of the debate over whether AM/FM radio should pay a performance royalty are assessing the prospects that broadcasters will be able to successfully beat back legislative efforts during the new congressional session. So what is the same, and what’s new? Here’s a..
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Metro FM Sports Presenter Robert Marawa Is Back To His Sports Show

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Metro FM sports presenter Robert Marawa is retaining his spot on his popular show after all said and done. Marawa is expected to return to his sports show on Metro FM on Thursday evening following his victory over a stand-off with his employers. The presenter has been absent from his regular radio slot for almost..
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Bob Mabena joins MSG Afrika Broadcasting

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Black-owned and -operated media company MSG Afrika Group has announced the appointment of renowned radio practitioner Bob Mabena as their group head of programming of their subsidiary MSG Afrika Broadcasting with effect from 1 May 2017. In his new role at MSG Afrika, Mabena will oversee talent and content output in the four group radio..
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Better measurement and squeezing out fake news

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We hope you had a relaxing Easter weekend and that you’re ready to hit the ground running. To get you in the mood, kick back and find out about the new Socio-Economic Measure (SEMs), set to replace the market segmentation tool, Living Standard Measure (LSMs), over the next two years. It follows industry sentiment regarding,..
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Glenn Beck And The Blaze Countersue Host Tomi Lahren.

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The high-profile lawsuit in which the Blaze’s on-air radio host, Tomi Lahren, charged that its owner Glenn Beck fired her because of her pro-choice views has come right back at her. Beck and the Blaze have filed a countersuit in Dallas County Court in Texas. The countersuit states that Lahren’s employment agreement “remains in full..
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Will radio become an audiovisual channel in the future?

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The world around us is constantly changing and evolving as new technology becomes available and mainstream. The extent to which our world is changing now more than ever, was recently made abundantly clear at the 2017 CES Conference, held in Las Vegas this year. New technologies on show included augmented and virtual reality, wearable tech..
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Liberty Radio Awards announces induction lineup.

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The Liberty Radio Awards’ gala banquet taking place on 22 April at the Sandton Convention Centre will acknowledge the people who have made a significant contribution to the radio industry as well as the young ‘Bright Stars’ who will play a substantial role in the industry’s future. The following individuals will be inducted into the..
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Jacaranda FM’s Rian van Heerden stays put… for now !!!

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Rian van Heerden, host of the award-winning The Complimentary Breakfast on Jacaranda FM, was due to leave the station at the end of March but his listeners persuaded him to stay a while. On 30 March, Jacaranda FM’s programme manager, Gavin Meiring interrupted the show explaining that there had been numerous requests from listeners for..
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Blurring the lines between talk and music radio

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The earth tremors that shook Johannesburg on Monday night have nothing on the shaky state of morning drive radio shows on the SABC’s commercial stations. Following the shock “redeployment” (in a week of shock ‘redeployments’ in government) of DJ Fresh to Metro FM, without a plan in place to replace him at 5FM, it’s no..
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