Legacy

In Texas' state capital, the audio home for fine arts music is KMFA-FM, a Class C1 noncommercial facility with a signal stretching from Temple through Austin and south to New Braunfels.  At the end of this month, the 56-year-old Classical station will have a new Chief Executive Officer. He's inbound from Chicago, exiting a station he joined nearly three years ago.

With a focus on high-impact and investigative reporting, the awards honor work from television stations, networks, radio and podcasts, visual media, online media outlets, independent producers, newspapers and other print publications.

Since lockdown, some music streaming services have been reporting a drop in consumption on their platform. Huh? Indeed, that seems to be the case, and Futuresource Consulting says it is the result of "new confinement rules to fight COVID-19." Could increased consumption to radio stations, via AM or FM or via a smart speaker, app or laptop, play a role in this decline?

It is licensed to Ashland City, Tenn., but has a signal that covers all of Nashville during daylight hours. While the AM has just 35 watts at night, there's a 100-watt FM translator that allows it to cover Nashville's west side. These facilities are heading to a new licensee, pending FCC approval. And, it is a certainty that "The Mighty 790" is involved in their future.

Simultaneous to a $29 million transaction struck just over two years ago, Corpus Christi, Tex.-based Mako Communications agreed to offer to HC2 certain Construction Permits that it may obtain at a later date, for no cash consideration. Mako is now handing four of them over.

As the Media Rating Council sees it, its accreditation is "the primary mechanism for transparency and accountability in advertising and media measurement." But, what exactly is "accreditation," and how does the process work? A webinar scheduled for Wednesday aims to explain all.

"Major enhancements" include a new, cloud-native architecture; a redesigned user interface; integrated caption editing; intelligent number representation; flexible new pricing models; and an advanced API for third-party developers.

During Wednesday night’s awards, Alejandro Ortiz, executive creative director at Campbell Ewald Detroit/NY, was announced as the chief judge for the 2022 Radio Mercury Awards. Additionally, it was announced that the Creative Use of Nonbroadcast Audio category ended in a tie, resulting in two winners.

Going to Las Vegas in late April to learn more about radio industry tech advancements and ways to improve your stations' bottom line? Perhaps a quintet of sessions presented by the Erica Farber-led RAB can assist.

Salem Media Group is leaving Music City and taking its "Fish" with it. At the same time, it is saying Aloha to O'ahu. Who's the buyer? Look no further than the parent of the KLOVE and Air1 noncommercial CCM networks.

Marketing attribution software company LeadsRx, along with select partners, are offering a no-cost "Triage Assessment Program" designed to help businesses in a time of need as the nation faces the COVID-19 and economic crises.

The workforce of the U.S. is comprised of more and more minorities, such as Hispanics. Furthermore, there is a positive association between the rise in Hispanic workers and Hispanic buying power, a FSU Master's student writes in a column worthy of a close read. "This implication is one that marketers must be proactive in responding to," the report concludes.

He's formerly the SVP of Ad Sales at the Marquee Sports Network and played a key role in the relaunch of the RSN. Before that he was President of ABC National Television Sales and in the past was a VP for both WLS-7 in Chicago and WABC-7 in New York. Now, this broadcast TV ad sales vet is heading up WPEC-TV.

In an intriguing turn of events, the bankrupt Diamond Sports Group, which operates regional sports networks through a licensing agreement with Bally, has asked a Houston federal bankruptcy court to approve an amended plan that would erase its Major League Baseball agreements as of December 31, 2024.

That's the somewhat skewed look at video consumption presented in a new report from Statista, which also shows robust consumption of digital videos during the same 12-month period.