Avis Budget Group beefs up SiriusXM offering
Avis Budget Group announced that the satcaster is now available as a premium add-on across a majority of its Avis and Budget car rental fleets. More than 60% of its rentals now have factory-installed satellite radio receivers. The in-dash access to SiriusXM replaces the portable plug and play satellite radio previously offered to Avis and Budget renters.
SBS Ramps Up A New Digital Marketing Department
Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) has made its entrance into the world of digital marketing solutions. The company superserving Hispanic consumers across broadcast media and through its LaMusica app and web portal has launched a pure-play digital marketing department.
Westwood One unveils 2011 NCAA Football schedule
We’ve got both the lineup of college football doubleheaders and all-star broadcasters for the 2011-2012 seasons from Westwood One. John Tautges will call play-by-play...
Nearly 70 Radio Stations Get EEO Letter
The FCC this week announced its next EEO audit – one limited to only 69 radio stations. No television stations or cable systems were included in the audit notice. Wilkinson Barker Knauer partner David Oxenford shares his tips on what to do if any station in your cluster is on the list of audited stations.
WNIX flips to News-Talk
Delta Radio Network, LLC, set to close on its purchase of the Debut Broadcasting stations in the Mississippi Delta, flipped WNIX-AM Greenville, MS from...
WIBC team wins at the Brickyard
Before the race cars hit the track for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, 10 media teams competed Thursday (5/26) in a competition to prove that even...
Mattress Retailer Rides High With Radio Spots
In last week’s Media Monitors Radio Spot Ten report, Mattress Firm made a statement by greatly increasing its national spot count at the stations tracked by Media Monitors.
Music discovery still dominated by radio; not with teens
So says Nielsen’s Music 360 Report: Radio is still the dominant way people discover music (48%)
Study finds radio tech haves and have nots
An independent study sponsored by Wheatstone Corporation shows the radio industry evolving into technology "haves" and "have nots"
Movin’ 101.1 to change to Sports Talk
The Bonneville St. Louis Radio Group announced that beginning 1/1 it will change the format of WMVN (101.1 FM) from its current upbeat “Movin’”...
PPM highlighted in WSJ
The scary subhead to yesterday's story in the Wall Street Journal was "Philly Stations Cut Ad Rates." The story actually quotes an ad buyer...
‘Uber’ Ratings, Coming Soon … From Eastlan and IBA?
Vocal opposition to Nielsen Audio's decision as of today appears to outweigh those who support Nielsen's business decision to delete non-subscriber station analysis from all but its costly responder data. Now, the man who created the Independent Broadcasters Association (IBA) says he's ready for Eastlan to ramp it up as a bigger competitor to Nielsen Audio.
First Media Closes On Its Peach State Purchase
In late April, RBR+TVBR first reported on the sale of a group of radio stations serving the Albany, Ga., market. As 2020 comes to a close, this $450,000 deal -- which involves one of the nation's biggest broadcasting companies -- has closed.
Big Fine Set For Queens Pirate Pest
José Luis Gerez will have to pony up a hefty fine for repeatedly moving the antenna for a pirate operation first detected in 2013.
The InFOCUS Podcast: Robin Szabo
Szabo Associates began life as a media collection services operation in 1971. Why? Was Radio plagued with a collection of deadbeats? That's just one of the questions Robin answers in this latest InFOCUS Podcast, presented by DOT.FM. LISTEN HERE