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Monty Ross is the new Marketing/Promotions Director for Clear Channel-NY
Clear Channel Radio-New York President/Market Manager Joe Puglise says, "Monty’s prior brand marketing experience outside of our industry and the incredibly talented and hard-working Promotions and Marketing team already assembled in New York will be a great combination. He will definitely help accelerate both our brands’ consumer relationships as …
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The Hardest Working Act In Station Shows: 2011
Who is this fall’s “Hardest Working Act In Station Shows”? Here’s a hint: they come with their own transportation.Every year, we take a look at the roster of acts who are playing radio station holiday shows and other artist events, looking for the artists who are most actively making themselves available for those shows.
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Making Moves: Monday, October 31, 2011
Radio-Info.com hears from Merlin Media in Chicago, where longtime Minneapolis WCCO-AM (830) news anchor Jeff McKinney will be the new midday anchor for all-news WWWN-FM (101.1). Anchor Lise Dominique moves to a weekend anchor/weekday reporter role ...
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NYC's "Z-100" announces the "Jingle Ball 2011" lineup headlined by Lady Gaga
The annual event for WHTZ-FM (100.3) "Z-100," to be staged on December 9 at Madison Square Garden, as usual features an all-star cast. The headline act is Lady Gaga.
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Making Moves: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
WIOQ (Q102) Philadelphia PD Tim "Romeo" Herbster's Superadio syndicated "Saturday Night Online LIVE" show will now be heard on CHR WHTZ (Z100) New York where he was MD/nights for many years. It's his first time back on Z100 since 2009 ...
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"Hit Music Now" Takes over WGMY in Tallahassee
In Tallahassee, Clear Channel has flipped Hot AC WGMY “My 107.1” to CHR, and is calling it “Hit Music Now.” It will continue to run the syndicated Elvis Duran in morning drive, but also adds the voice tracking talents of JJ from co-owned WHTZ “Z100” New York, in afternoon drive. At night, Billy The Kidd is piped in from KHKS Dallas. Read More
Making Moves: Friday, September 16, 2011
New York City's WHTZ (100.3) "Z-100" is keeping its "bounce," signing evening DJ Mo Bounce to a contract extension ... Radio-Info hears from Allentown, Pennsylvania's WLEV(100.7), where Scott Evans has been brought in to co-host the morning show with current host Cindy Wear.
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Is "Female News" Threatening AC's Franchise?
In a listener poll that ran on the station Website in its earliest days, Merlin Media’s WEMP (101.9 FM News) New York offered respondents a choice of stations that they currently listen to that included not just All-News AM WINS, the perceived target of the new station, but also AC WLTW (Lite FM) and Top 40s WKTU and WHTZ (Z100). That list of sta…
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How Top 40 Went WKTU – A Fresh Listen
When WKTU New York emerged as No. 1 25-54 in the July PPM on Monday, it was the capper to a two-year comeback for a station that first galvanized the market (on its current frequency) 15 years ago.
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Latest July PPMs for NYC, L.A., Chicago and more
In New York City: AC "Lite" WLTW slips but holds first place, 6.6 to 6.6 to 6.0 since the May monthly PPMs. Its Clear Channel sister station rhythmic AC WKTU now ranks second, 4.9-5.1-5.1. Read More
What Makes A Great Sign-On?
Whether you’re inside or outside the industry—format changes are always one of the best things about being a radio junkie. And after a year or so where the economy froze stations in their tracks, this summer has been a big one.
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New York's Big Flips
Anytime a major radio station in the nation’s largest media market changes format, it captures the attention of not just the city, but the industry nationwide. It’s this grand stage that has provided some of the most memorable and ground-breaking format flips. Read More
CHR In 2004: “I Don't Want It Back”
If 1981, recently saluted in this column, was the year where Top 40’s first life-threatening doldrums finally started to turn around, its equivalent year in CHR’s current dominance has to be 2004. That came back to me recently when I came across a copy of the WHTZ (Z100) New York Top 100 Countdown for the year that had somehow not gotten filed away…
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Elvis Duran to host this year's NAB Marconi Awards Show in Chicago
The Z100, New York-based syndicated talent is the latest in a line of both local and syndicated hosts for the dress-up awards dinner. Ron Chapman of Dallas was last year's host in Washington, DC, and previous hosts include Laura Ingraham (2009), Billy Bush (2008), Glenn Beck (2007) and L.A.'s Big Boy (2006).
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Radio's Best & Worst: June 16, 2011
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending June 16, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or another) capacity are asterisked.*Station (FM)WZBA (The Bay) Baltimore – The legal ID is “family-owned, locally operated.” And under PD (and friend of ROR) …
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May PPMs show NYC stays "Lite", and L.A. loves its "Kiss" – but also talk KFI
The Los Angeles May PPMs show Clear Channel CHR KIIS-FM on an up-curve over the last three months, 5.1-5.2-5.4 with age 6+ AQH shares. But check Clear Channel talker KFI - 4.3-4.5-4.9, now in second place. Read More
Clear Channel to pay $20,000 over phone-rule violations at Z100, NY
The $20,000 payment is part of a consent order, which specifies a "voluntary contribution to the U.S. Treasury" (not a fine) that helps resolve the violations from 2006 and 2007.
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Fresh Listen: "The New PLJ Music Mix"
WPLJ New York, one of the Hot AC format's first modern-day success stories, has been dealing with a shifting landscape and a lot of new competition in recent years. Rhythmic WKTU, the increasingly adult-friendly WHTZ (Z100) and its Elvis Duran Morning Show, the new WWFS (Fresh 102.7), and a more '80s/tempo-based WLTW (Lite FM) have all picked away …
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New April PPMs: Baseball pays off for many flagships
Arbitron's just-issued April People Meter results show immediate fan enthusiasm, in the first month of the season. For example: New York – Yankees flagship WCBS-AM (880) jumps 3.7 to 4.8 to tie CHR "Z100" WHTZ for third place, with age 6+ AQH shares.
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After 20 years, K.T. Mills is cut loose by Long Island's AC WALK-FM (97.5)
Despite consistent top ratings for nearly every year,
Clear Channel has severed ties with afternoon host K.T. Mills.
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