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Radio Headlines For Tuesday 05-18-21

It should according to Doug Hyde (pictured), Local Insights Senior Director at Westwood One. Hyde has accumulated data that he says shows that streaming now represents 10% of radio listening. [read more]

Not according to the NAB, which stated pure-play streamers are not “well-positioned to participate in the existing EAS ecosystem." The NAB has requested the FCC report to Congress that enabling EAS alerts to consumers through the Internet would be too complex and infeasible. Read the comments HERE. [read more]



New York Public Media has fired Bob Garfield, co-host of On The Media, as a "result of a pattern of behavior that violated NYPR's anti-bullying policy," according to a statement. [read more]



(By Ken Benson) Lee Abrams, has spent 5 decades in the trenches reinventing Radio, TV News and Print. What advice does the creator of the Album Rock format and the designer of XM satellite programming have for Radio in 2021? Let's find out... [read more]

25 more House Reps and 6 more Senators have signed onto the Local Radio Freedom Act, a resolution preventing any new taxes or royalties imposed on radio. 112 House members and 14 Senators now support the resolution. Here are the lawmakers recently added... [read more]



Elvis Duran and the Morning Show’ is celebrating 25 years on Z100 New York. The show began on the station in 1996 and in 2006 started syndication at iHeartMedia Miami’s WHYI-FM. [read more]



Jobs heavyweight Indeed has returned to the top of the Media Monitors list. Progressive is at number two. [read more]

Now with over 400 stations carrying Bloomberg Radio, the business and consumer news programming has seen a 25% growth rate since partnering with Key Networks back in October of 2020. [read more]



Bloomberg Media and iHeart have signed a multiyear agreement to co-produce and distribute over a dozen new original podcasts. The agreement also includes distribution of Bloomberg Media’s slate of over 20 podcasts through the iHeartPodcast Network. [read more]



Townsquare Media’s New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW-FM) is presenting the latest in a series of Town Hall broadcasts to help New Jersey deal with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Summer of ’21 will focus on tourism and medical concerns now that some restrictions are being lifted. [read more]
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Reachout Radio, the closed-circuit radio broadcast that provides access to daily newspapers and magazines for people who are unable to read standard print, will come to an end after three decades of service. [read more]



96.3 News Radio KKOB is joining The Albuquerque Journal and KOAT-TV in tackling New Mexico's low literacy rates through ‘The Literacy Project’. New Mexico ranks 49th in literacy nationwide.  [read more]



WBGO Studios will be part of Newark Public Radio’s WBGO. WBGO Studios will develop new podcasts to add to the inventory of three existing programs. [read more]

Talkers AM 870 Los Angeles and AM 590 in Riverside/San Bernardino will welcome broadcast veteran Grant Stinchfield. The Newsmax TV host will be the new co-host with Jennifer Horn on The Morning Answer. [read more]



Cherry Creek Media/Wenatchee, Washington has promoted programmer Mav3rick to Operations Manager. He will now oversee the seven-station group. [read more]



iHeartMedia's Cities 97.1 in Minneapolis has hired Brian Oake to take over the morning show. Oake worked afternoons at what was then Cities 97, before becoming the morning show co-host in 2012 alongside Keri Noble. [read more]
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