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Radio vet Kesha Monk, coping with Stage III cancer, needs our help
Our prayers and well-wishes go out to Kesha Monk, former midday personality on Emmis Urban AC WRKS “98.7 Kiss FM” New York. Kesha was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer and is need of help from her peers in the Radio industry. Read More
Making Moves: Friday, January 27, 2012
Clear Channel Country WINR (680) Binghamton, NY flips format, using “Real Oldies” … Major Trendz Radio Networks moves on from its miss with “Jonesy in the Morning,” by signing 45 King In the Mix – offering a Saturday night mix from 10pm – midnight on MajorTrendzRadio.com. The company also signs on comedian Spike Davis for the Spike Da…
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Making Moves: Monday, January 23, 2012
Urban AC WTTH “96.1 The Touch” in Atlantic City picks up the syndicated “Kissing After Dark With Lenny Green” for nights, Monday–Thursday, 7–midnight. Green is syndicated by Superadio, and based out of Emmis Urban AC WRKS “98.7 Kiss FM” New York … In other Urban AC news, veteran Los Angeles personality Myke Julius resurfaces on San Diego Urban AC X…
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Emmis' latest quarter was "transformative" but "disappointing"
Young-end revenues were a challenge, says Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan, with movie and cellular business weaker than expected. For the fiscal quarter ended November 30, U.S.
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Major Trendz Entertainment to Launch Urban Radio Network
Last week, Major Trendz Entertainment Corporation announced it would be getting into the radio syndication game with Miss Jones, who was recently let go from Clear Channel’s WUSL “Power 99” Philadelphia, amidst several lawsuits brought against the morning diva and the company. Now, Major Trendz Entertainment says it will launch a full-time satellit…
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Ed Lover makes a 1-day return to New York's "Hot 97"
It has been 13 years since Ed Lover was one half of the legendary Dre & Lover morning show on urban WQHT-FM (97.1) in New York City. For one day on Friday, Lover made his return to his former home to host a special midday show to promote the return of "Yo!
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WRKS "Kiss Fm" New York is now streaming!
Emmis Urban AC WRKS “987 Kiss FM” New York, is now finally available as a stream online. It’s the first of many new online ventures which Emmis has with crowd-sourcing entity Jelli.
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Radio’s Best & Worst: October 12, 2011
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending October 13, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Station (Online)Triple J Unearthed – Australia’s beloved non-comm Alternative station unveils a second online/digital…
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Nickolas Ashford, songwriter, performer and NYC radio personality, dies at 70
"Ashford and Simpson" was the songwriting credit on many Motown classics such as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", and Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson worked on many other music projects through the years. They met in New York in the 1960s and began to write and perform together.
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Jay "Mixin" Dixon to program WRKS "98.7 Kiss FM" New York
Jay Dixon, former PD of Cox Media’s urban AC WALR “Kiss 104.1” Atlanta, returns to New York as PD of Emmis Urban AC WRKS. He replaces Jill Strada, who left to program Beasley Broadcasting's Rhythmic WPOW "Power 96" in Miami.
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My Appointment (Listening) Book Through The Years
An Instant Request from Ron Gerber, host of KFAI Minneapolis’ Friday night “Crap From The Past.” He asks about “favorite music specialty shows of all time. I’d like to hear your thoughts on ‘American Top 40’ and its mid-’80s imitators (Rick Dees, Scott Shannon, ‘Countdown America’), Barry Scott’s ‘Lost 45s,’ Dick Bartley and Cindy Barton’s sh…
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New York's 98.7 Kiss Turns 30
You might have heard a lot about MTV, that other format launch that took place on August 1, 1981, but WRKS (Kiss 98.7) New York’s thirtieth anniversary deserves recognition as well. An unassuming station that pushed its way into one of the toughest markets for Urban radio, Kiss had a lot to do with what R&B radio sounded like for the next decade …
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Emmis New York cluster OM Brian D'Aurelio is leaving
D'Aurelio is one of the biggest names at Emmis in New York City to announce he will be leaving, following the move by Emmis to sell alternative modern rock WRXP-FM (101.9) to Merlin Media. D'Aurelio was the evening host on WRXP, and was also the Operations Manager for WRXP, urban WRKS-FM (98.7) "Kiss-FM" and Hip-Hop WQHT-FM (97.1).
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WALR Atlanta PD Jay Dixon Exits
He's served as PD of the Cox R&B Oldies WALR “Kiss 104.1” Atlanta for the past several years. Now the position has apparently been eliminated.
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Strada Heads To Miami's "Power 96"
Jill Strada, PD of Emmis Urban AC WRKS "Kiss 98.7" and APD/MD of hip-hop sister WQHT “Hot 97” New York, is headed to Miami to serve as PD of Beasley’s CHR/Rhythmic WPOW “Power 96.” She replaces Tom Calococco, who exited in April. Strada’s been with Emmis in New York for three years and previously served as PD of Cox Media’s Rhythmic WPYO “Power 95.…
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NYC's "Kiss" improved, and Emmis' last-quarter revenues improved 6%
From today's TRI Newsletter: Three months ago, Emmis was reporting that the revenue performance at New York’s urban AC “Kiss 98.7” WRKS was causing the cluster to under-perform the market, as reported by Miller Kaplan. Now with the full-year report just filed at the SEC, Emmis says Los Angeles and Chicago were “disappointing” – same as three months… Read More
Emmis New York hires new Vice President of Digital Programming
Lin Dai is the newly-hired Vice President of Digital Programming for the three Emmis stations in New York, including urban “Hot 97” WQHT, Urban AC WRKS "98.7 Kiss FM," and rocker WRXP (101.9). Dai was most recently at Alloy Media + Marketing, working with properties such as Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars.
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Miss Jones returns to the airwaves in New York
This time she'll be heard on Emmis Urban AC WRKS “98.7 Kiss FM," doing “Jonesy’s Kiss List Countdown” on Saturdays from 10am – 12 noon. The countdown is of the top 20 songs of the week, voted online by Kiss listeners.
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NYC veteran Ed Lover grabs Friday nights on "Kiss-FM"
The former host of the "Dre & Lover" morning show on hip-hop WQHT-FM
"Hot" (97.1) and who also spent time on WWPR-FM (105.1) is back on New
York City radio, joining urban WRKS-FM (98.7). He'll host a Friday night
show called "Friday Night Live" from 7pm-12am.
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Making Moves: Monday, February 7, 2011
Radio-Info confirms Brian Bridgman is no longer OM for R&B classic KDAY-FM (93.5) in Los Angeles. No replacement named ...
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