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Monday, 21 May 2012 08:24
YouTube Celebrates Seven
YouTube celebrated its 7th birthday Sunday. At Myaircheck.com our video usage has grown leaps and bounds in three years of members posting rado and television airchecks so we can appreciate these numbers The…
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 16:52
Robin Gibb loses battle
Robin Gibb loses battle with colorectal cancer at age 62. It leaves one of pop music's all-time great trios with one remaining member. Brother Maurice died in 2003. Young brother Andy Gibb who…
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 07:52
GM's ad decisions cause ripple effect
A major shuffling of the ad budgets this week in the automotive industry and it leaves us wondering how the budgets will be divvied up this year. General Motors this week, just days…
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Friday, 18 May 2012 07:54
Hall Call
This week talk giant Rush Limbaugh entered Hall of Famous Missourians. In Canada recently retired CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson and 51-year veteran radio news anchor Andy Walsh (currently News 1130 Vancouver) entered…
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Friday, 18 May 2012 07:41
Radio Revenues Up
Radio revenues grew 1% in first quarter-Radio Advertising Bureau. Off-air and digital was a huge factor in the favorable numbers. This marks the third straight Q1 increase for radio in 2012. Political advertising…
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:29
Remembering the "Queen of Disco"
Some of us are old enough to remember spinning her disco LP's. Anyone who worked hit music radio in the '70s and '80s will have played her music. Donna Summer died of cancer…
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 07:49
Radio places four on Forbes "Celebrity 100"
Jennifer Lopez tops the list, dropping last year's leader Lady Gaga to number two and Justin Bieber lands at number three, but the latest Forbes Celebrity 100 list includes four who make their…
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 07:35
Radio Ticker: Moves in Boston and Canada
Clear Channel Radio purchases Alternative WFNX FM Boston from Phoenix Media. In Canada CBC, Canada's public broadcaster launches 40 web and mobile radio stations.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 07:42
It pays to have 20 jobs!
This is no entry level radio broadcaster's pad. Ryan Seacrest has dropped a cool $49 Million on a swank mansion in Beverly Hills, previously owned by Ellen Degeneres and the creator of Will…
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