“We have been able to write business in this tough time,” longtime Atlanta-market GM Brian Barber says of his two Spanish-language radio brands, owned by Davis Broadcasting. “Have we lost business? Sure. Everybody has. But I think it’s having a very cohesive team and being very unified and being very sensitive to the clients and speaking with them as to what their needs are and addressing those needs … and that’s what we’ve done.”
It’s a positive tale regarding Hispanic-targeted media in what is still considered an emerging market, and stations that capture a unique audience but may not have been able to capitalize through advertising during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How has Davis Broadcasting sailed through the tough waters caused by the novel coronavirus? What is it doing to compete against a reinvigorated iHeartLatino in Atlanta?
Find out in this fresh RBR+TVBR CORONAVIRUS INFOCUS Podcast hosted by Radio + Television Business Report Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson.
Listen to “Episode No. 32: Brian Barber” on Spreaker.
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