With podcast revenue increasing from $15.9 million in Q1 of 2020 to $38.4 million this year, iHeartMedia's podcast division got a lot of air time on Thursday's earnings call. If you're keeping score at home, that's a 141.9% increase. [read more]
iHeartMedia's podcasting revenue increased 142% in the first quarter of 2021. Next week a new podcasting revenue report will be released that will raise even more eyebrows for the podcasting space. Don't be one of the 12 people on the planet ignoring podcasting. [read more]
Jacobs Media, with an assist from Veritone, presented its annual Techsurvey Thursday afternoon, which takes a look at trends in the mobile, social, and “connected car” spaces. Over 40,000 listeners participated in an online survey. Here are a few highlights. [read more]
Just in time for Mother's Day, Edison Research has released new data from its Moms and Media 2121 study which showed 46% of moms now own a smart speaker device. That's up 13% from the same time last year. [read more]
With Ed Christian sidelined from the Saga earnings call Thursday because of a pulled back muscle, the company reported net revenue of $22.3 million in Q1 this year compared to $26.1 million in Q1 of 2020. [read more]
For the first quarter of 2021 Salem Media's broadcast revenue declined to $45.2 million from $44 million. Digital revenue was up 5.7% to $9.6 million and publishing was up big, 43.4% to $5.7 million. Total revenue for the company increased 1.9% to $59.4 million. [read more]
NAB Chief Diversity Officer and NABLF President Michelle Duke hosted a panel on diversity, equity and inclusion at the 2021 NAB State Leadership Conference this week. Michelle's guests were Sarah Harris, VP of Social Impact at Audacy and Katherine Barnett, SVP for Human Resources at Hearst. WATCH [read more]
A number of radio stations are getting the good news that they have been honored with Edward R. Murrow Regional Awards. Since 1971, RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism with the Awards. [read more]
The Audacy station is pairing up Melissa McGurren and Austin Huff to host morning drive on WUSN-FM. McGurren spent most of her career on WTMX’s The Mix Morning Show in Chicago as a traffic reporter sidekick turned co-host. Huff is a Nashville native with over 10 years of radio experience on the air. [read more]
Cumulus has hired veteran Rock radio programmer Dave Rossi, as PD at WKSM/99ROCK in Fort Walton Beach-Destin. Rossi joins Cumulus from iHeart Nashville where he was PD at Classic Rock WNRQ-FM and WNRQ-HD2/ALT983. [read more]
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Valerie Smaldone is wrapping up her nearly three year run on WNYM-AM in New York City where she hosted the weekly show, “Bagels and Broadway,” the only radio show in New York dedicated to food and theatre. She'll be bringing back the show as a podcast later this year. [read more]
Erika Jay is the new midday talent at WLTJ-FM (Q92.9) in Pittsburgh. She joins Steel City Media from Forever Media’s WOGI-FM (Froggy 104.3) in the Pittsburgh suburb of Moon Township. [read more]
Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s “Call of the Day” podcast has reached a milestone 100 million downloads. Dr. Laura’s radio program is heard daily on SiriusXM, and her podcast features a call she designates as the best from each day’s show. [read more]
Westwood One will celebrate the start of summertime with its annual “Summer Kickoff with Justin Moore” special, airing over the Memorial Day Weekend. Top Country music stars will join Moore to salute to the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. [read more]
After writing about the 50th birthday at Connoisseur’s WPLR in Connecticut, the walls inside the Radio Ink ZOOM room were reverberating with wonder. How many active radio stations are there today that have carried the same format for 50 years or longer? [read more]
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With podcast revenue increasing from $15.9 million in Q1 of 2020 to $38.4 million this year, iHeartMedia's podcast division got a lot of air time on Thursday's earnings call. If you're keeping score at home, that's a 141.9% increase.
iHeartMedia's podcasting revenue increased 142% in the first quarter of 2021. Next week a new podcasting revenue report will be released that will raise even more eyebrows for the podcasting space. Don't be one of the 12 people on the planet ignoring podcasting.
Jacobs Media, with an assist from Veritone, presented its annual Techsurvey Thursday afternoon, which takes a look at trends in the mobile, social, and “connected car” spaces. Over 40,000 listeners participated in an online survey. Here are a few highlights.
Just in time for Mother's Day, Edison Research has released new data from its Moms and Media 2121 study which showed 46% of moms now own a smart speaker device. That's up 13% from the same time last year.
With Ed Christian sidelined from the Saga earnings call Thursday because of a pulled back muscle, the company reported net revenue of $22.3 million in Q1 this year compared to $26.1 million in Q1 of 2020.
For the first quarter of 2021 Salem Media's broadcast revenue declined to $45.2 million from $44 million. Digital revenue was up 5.7% to $9.6 million and publishing was up big, 43.4% to $5.7 million. Total revenue for the company increased 1.9% to $59.4 million.
NAB Chief Diversity Officer and NABLF President Michelle Duke hosted a panel on diversity, equity and inclusion at the 2021 NAB State Leadership Conference this week. Michelle's guests were Sarah Harris, VP of Social Impact at Audacy and Katherine Barnett, SVP for Human Resources at Hearst. 
A number of radio stations are getting the good news that they have been honored with Edward R. Murrow Regional Awards. Since 1971, RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism with the Awards.
The Audacy station is pairing up Melissa McGurren and Austin Huff to host morning drive on WUSN-FM. McGurren spent most of her career on WTMX’s The Mix Morning Show in Chicago as a traffic reporter sidekick turned co-host. Huff is a Nashville native with over 10 years of radio experience on the air.
Cumulus has hired veteran Rock radio programmer Dave Rossi, as PD at WKSM/99ROCK in Fort Walton Beach-Destin. Rossi joins Cumulus from iHeart Nashville where he was PD at Classic Rock WNRQ-FM and WNRQ-HD2/ALT983.
Valerie Smaldone is wrapping up her nearly three year run on WNYM-AM in New York City where she hosted the weekly show, “Bagels and Broadway,” the only radio show in New York dedicated to food and theatre. She'll be bringing back the show as a podcast later this year.
Erika Jay is the new midday talent at WLTJ-FM (Q92.9) in Pittsburgh. She joins Steel City Media from Forever Media’s WOGI-FM (Froggy 104.3) in the Pittsburgh suburb of Moon Township.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s “Call of the Day” podcast has reached a milestone 100 million downloads. Dr. Laura’s radio program is heard daily on SiriusXM, and her podcast features a call she designates as the best from each day’s show. 
Westwood One will celebrate the start of summertime with its annual “Summer Kickoff with Justin Moore” special, airing over the Memorial Day Weekend. Top Country music stars will join Moore to salute to the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
After writing about the 50th birthday at Connoisseur’s WPLR in Connecticut, the walls inside the Radio Ink ZOOM room were reverberating with wonder. How many active radio stations are there today that have carried the same format for 50 years or longer?
1480 WHBC Canton, OH is the new home of Tangled Up In Blues with Cornel Bogdan. The show first aired in September 2000 in Youngstown, OH.
