By: Seth Resler Jacobs Media Strategies As a digital marketer, it’s easy to get caught up in the latest trend. We tend to dismiss digital tactics that have been around for a while simply because they have been around for a while. Yet some of these stalwarts, while not sexy, still have value in them.…
By: David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week (April 2-8), with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. Broadcast operations that use uninterruptable power supply (UPS) devices as either…
Michigan Radio has announced the hiring of Matt Shafer Powell as the station’s new Program Director. As the Program Director, Matt Shafer Powell will help lead the station’s on-air hosts, manage the station’s program schedule and be responsible for the overall sound of Michigan Radio, the state’s largest public radio service. He will also engage…
WLEW-AM/FM (Bad Axe) News Director Craig Routzahn signed off for the final time following the station’s 1 p.m. newscast last Friday (4/1). Routzahn holds the record as the longest serving continuous on-air personality at the station with 46-1/2 years behind the microphone. Routzahn joined the station in the fall of 1975, hired by Station Manager…
Beasley Media Group has announced that Lynn Montemayor has been named as the General Sales Manager of the company’s Detroit-based radio properties, including WRIF-FM, WCSX-FM, WMGC-FM, WDMK-FM, Detroit PRAISE Network and Motor City Sports Talk The ROAR. She most recently spent four years as a Partner & Chief Marketing Officer of Fortysix/5, a Motor City-based…
By: David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP Last week, the US House of Representatives passed the MORE Act which, if enacted, would take marijuana off the list of Schedule I drugs – those drugs whose possession and distribution is a federal felony, as is the use of the radio waves to promote their use. As we have warned before…
On April 6, WDRQ-FM (Detroit) (New Country 93.1) has launched a new morning show, “Goose & Renee,” bringing together current morning personality Renee Vitale with Aaron “Goose” Seller weekdays from 5:30 – 10 a.m. Seller started his 23-year radio career in 1999 in Detroit’s Fisher Building, home of Cumulus Detroit, and has been heard on…
This week, WLUC-TV’s Don Ryan sat down with WMQT/WZAM (Marquette) owner Tom Mogush to talk about the upcoming plans for his stations and more. Mogush recently announced that he is selling his stations to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. Both Mogush and longtime station personlity/Program Director Jim Koski have said they intend to stay on…
Graham Media Group has announced that its WDIV-TV (Detroit) has launched an hour-long morning local newscast, streaming on digital platforms and OTT apps. WDIV-TV’s morning newscast streams from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Local4+, and will feature the morning news team of Rhonda Walker, Evrod Cassimy, meteorologist Brandon Roux, traffic reporter Kim DeGiulio and…
iHeartMedia’s WLLZ-FM (Detroit) has announced the addition of the Josh Innes Show in the station’s morning slot. Innes is based at the company’s WNRQ-FM (Nashville), which he joined as morning host in April 2021. He previously spent his career in the Sports format with stints at KILT-AM, KBME-AM and KFNC-FM (Houston). His resume also includes…