With the Memorial Day holiday weekend coming in hours, Miami-based Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) early Friday released its first quarter 2021 results, ahead of an earnings call for analysts and investors in six days.
How did the multimedia company targeting U.S. Hispanics perform in the first three months of the year?
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Charter Communications‘ Spectrum Community Investment Loan Fund has invested $1 million in the Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF).
The nonprofit certified community development financial institution (CDFI) will provide low-interest loans to small businesses in Charter’s North Carolina service area.
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In much of Connecticut, Rocker “I-95” is perhaps used more than the actual Interstate highway traversing the southern portion of the Constitution State. It’s a heritage station based in Danbury, and has a Country sibling that is today one-third of a Hudson Valley-focused Country station.
Both FMs have a new Market President and Chief Revenue Officer.
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Podcasting is definitely the audio flavor of the times.
And to take advantage of that a podcasting services provider, Podcastle, has added to its audio tool chest.
According to the company, clients can now edit audio, convert text into podcasts and create usable audio clips from video and other audio sources.
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Podcastle founder and CEO Artavazd Yeritsyan said, “Although many tools have come onto the market for photo and video editing, audio technologies have been less accessible. We believe that audio will continue to be one of the fastest-growing and influential categories in storytelling.” He added, “Our goal is to remove barriers so that people can focus on creating interesting content and not have to worry about complex or expensive software to do it.”
As a further demonstration of widespread interest in the podcasting sector, the company announced funding from venture capital firm Sierra Ventures last year.
Info: https://podcastle.ai
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Audacy, the former Entercom, has announced some personnel changes in its San Francisco and Sacramento operations.
Current Audacy Sacramento Market Manager Stacey Kauffman will assume the role of regional vice president and market manager for Audacy Northern California. She will oversee KGMZ(AM), KLLC(HD2), KITS(FM), KLLC(FM), KCBS(AM), KRBQ9FM) and KGMZ(FM) in San Francisco.
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She succeeds Greg Nemitz and will report to Regional President Doug Abernethy. Kauffman has been with Entercom/Audacy since 2015. She has also worked for Hubbard Broadcasting, Radio One and Susquehanna Radio.
Kauffman announced that Kieran Geffert has been promoted to vice president of sales for Sacramento and San Francisco. Geffert will handle sales throughout northern California. Geffert started with KCBS(AM) when it was part of CBS Radio.
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Connected TV adoption has exploded. But how are advertisers fairing amid the transition from linear to what in the U.S. is called “CTV”?
That’s a question Innovid and Digiday believe they have the answer to, as it has released the results of a survey of 100+ brand marketers and agency execs’ thoughts on the state of Connected TV advertising.
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“There is no small irony in the observation that the deal to combine WarnerMedia and Discovery will, at least initially, have a far greater impact on linear TV than it will on streaming,” note Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson of MoffettNathanson, the esteemed Wall Street analyst house. “Yes, the deal is ostensibly about assembling the right assets for a DTC future. But perhaps its most significant impact early on will be that it slows rather than hastens the pace of the transition.”
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Your RF site is more than a transmitter and a tower. It’s an entire ecosystem!
Radio World’s latest free ebook helps you to make sure it is running efficiently, safely and profitably.
Workbench legend John Bisset shares some of the best tips from years of helping readers maintain their sites. Paul Tinkle helps non-engineers understand what to watch for when they visit a site.
Peter Burk explains how a remote control system can help you improve routine maintenance and reduce emergency calls. Buc Fitch lays out a philosophy for clean reliable power.
Sean Edwards helps you identify trouble spots in your antenna system. Josh Bohn explores options for site connectivity.
The folks at Fluke list 10 dumb things people do when testing electricity. And award-winning engineer Jeff Welton opens up his famous bag of tips ‘n tricks!
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Newly released research finds that the total market value of digital content will grow by 105% over the next five years.
This value, says Juniper Research, takes into account pay-per-download revenue, in-app content spend, subscription revenue and ad spend over digital content.
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LISTEN. LEARN. PROFIT.
That’s the first thing you see when you visit Hala Taha‘s website.
Hala is the host of the Young and Profiting Podcast and the CEO of YAP Media. She started both brands as a side hustle, scaling to $1M in revenue and 30 employees before quitting her day job.
And, at the How to Make Real Money Podcasting virtual conference in July, Hala’s going to teach you how to turn your side hustle into a profitable business, too.
Hala has never been afraid to smash through the lanes and make her own path. She began her career in radio as an interim producer at WQHT-FM “Hot 97” in New York on The Angie Martinez Show, while pursuing a bachelor’s degree. Pouring her heart and soul into the success of the show, Hala decided to drop out of college and work full time for the radio station — for free.
After being rejected from her dream job at Hot 97 and later starring in an MTV reality show only to have the TV network pull the plug right before airing — Hala knew it was time to invest her time and talent in a brand she would own herself. She was tired of the gatekeepers telling her no.
She launched the Young and Profiting Podcast as a side hustle, to teach people how to be financially wise and have a more successful life. She grew to be one of the biggest influencers and podcasters on Linkedin. And then she decided she would scale and offer what she built for herself to others, and the social media and podcast agency YAP Media was born.
Today, Hala has graced the cover of Podcast Magazine and the Young and Profiting Podcast continuously ranks as a #1 Education podcast across all apps. YAP Media has several high-end clients and over 40 employees, around the world and will generate $2M in revenue in its first year.
When Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan interviews Hala on July 15, she’ll share all of her secrets to success. What drives her? How did she turn her side hustle into a profitable business? She’ll explain how she thrived on rejection and used it as a stepping stone to success. And, she’ll tell you how you can make money podcasting.
A nice collection of comments on microphones in the May 26 issue! But I have a comment about the quote in the first piece that “No radio station ratings have ever been tied to the mic used in the studio.”
I wholeheartedly disagree. If you ask a listener, they’re not going to flat out tell you that they love a station’s compressor, particular jingle, studio, microphone or one particular recording. They only know what they hear, and it’s generally without being analytical.
Whatever that mystique is that makes one station sound better than another certainly contributes to why the station is a favorite.
Every element is a little percentage point towards making a station number one. And it’s like dominoes. You break the chain and the result will disproportionately affect the outcome.
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As they say, “The chain is only as strong as the weakest link.” The secret of being a number one station is doing all those little percentages the right way; but with the microphone it’s a lot more than 1%. It’s the product that the listener hears upon which they make their preference judgments.
Comparing the quality of the air sound to the budget of whether you can use the microphone as a hammer and evaluating the choice of what to purchase is just plain outrageous.
I am often reminded of the quote by Ken Levine, a former DJ with us at a couple of L.A. stations and writer, director and producer of “M*A*S*H,” “Frasier” and “Cheers”: “Enough is a feast to an idiot.” And that’s exactly the mid ground “rollover and play dead” mentality of stations that just sound mediocre. It is super easy to beat them in the ratings because I maintain that the listener most certainly can tell the difference.
Of course personality factors into it as well, but put the same personality on a station that is superior in these other elements we are discussing, and it’s a slam dunk that they will have an edge. No details and listeners don’t really ever know why — except “It just sounds better.”
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LOS ANGELES — He stayed on with the company following its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and transition from LBI Media.
Now, Estrella Media‘s VP of PR and Corporate Affairs is moving on.
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