Cumulus Media Saginaw/Flint Regional Vice President and Market Manager Cody Welling said, “The end result is truly special when the community comes together and fights for a worthy cause! The success of the Men Wear Pink campaign in Saginaw combines the passion and contributions of the many great listeners of Z93. In addition to our sales team and staff.
Impact 89FM (WDBM-FM), Michigan State University’s student-run radio station and media organization, recently earned multiple honors in the College Broadcasters, Inc. National Student Production Awards as well as the College Media Association Pinnacle Awards. These awards recognize excellence in student-produced audio, journalism, sports broadcasting, public service and overall programming.
Last week, the WGVU (Grand Rapids) family announced that they are mourning the loss of longtime reporter and local Morning Edition host David Moore, who passed away October 29. For 27 years, David helped Michiganders start their mornings informed and prepared, bringing listeners news, weather, and traffic from 1987 until his retirement in 2014.
“I’ve been thinking about this for a couple of years now, and I’m ready for a change,” said Fred Jacobs. “I appreciate all the opportunities I’ve had over the years, and the people, organizations, and companies we’ve worked for and collaborated with. From the early days of the company and the birth of the Classic Rock format to our focus on technology in the 2000s, it’s been quite a journey.”
Cumulus Media’s WLAV-FM (Grand Rapids) announced this week the debut of “Dave & Chuck the Freak” as its new morning show. The program originates at Beasley Media Group’s WRIF-FM (Detroit), has been on-the-air since 2001, starting at CIMX-FM (Windsor, Ontario) before moving to WRIF in 2013.
A few radio changes in our state that have seen some press this past week. The first one reported by WILX-TV (Lansing) that Macdonald Broadcasting’s WXLA-AM/W227DO (Lansing/Easy 93.3) flipped to its seasonal all-Christmas music presentation at midnight on November 1, making the station one of the first in the state to do so this year.
Courier began his television news career at KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas, where he spent three years covering stories across the Borderland. During his time there, he served as a morning reporter, traffic anchor and fill-in news anchor. He also produced and anchored the station’s midday newscast.
WNEM-TV (Saginaw) has announced the arrival of Caroline Klapp to its on-air team. Klapp joins from sister Gray Media station WNDU-TV in South Bend. She is anchoring at 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts alongside Chet Davis.
Osborn served as vice president and general manager of WXYZ-TV from 1972 to 1979. During his tenure, WXYZ-TV, then owned and operated by ABC, grew into the top-rated station in the Detroit market and became recognized as one of the nation’s powerhouse television stations.
With much of everyone’s focus on the outcome of the November 3 midterm elections, broadcasters cannot forget the regulatory dates and deadlines in November and early December. While the dates and deadlines in November tend to be lighter than in other months, many routine deadlines do fall in early December, and even the upcoming month does have dates worthy of note to all broadcasters.