Industry News Bits 11-16-16

Word National Promotion Director Kenny Rodgers announces he is leaving the label to join Capitol CMG as its Director of National promotion. Rodgers will start at CMG Nov 21st…  

WRVL/Lynchburg (The Journey) PD Mike Weston checks in with HisAir.Net to share a post election video they’ve done. Check it out here…  

Moody Radio has Thanksgiving Day Specials available for affiliates on FTP. Two holiday favorites for affiliates including “The Crossing: A Cabin Boy’s Journal” and “Remembering Pilgrims” are both 54-minutes in length, with each special produced in four parts. 

Long-time host of the weekly Hour of Decision radio program, heard around the world, for more than 60 years, Cliff Barrows, has died. Barrows worked as the director of music programming, and later television and radio programming, for Billy Graham Crusades. One of the first members of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Barrows traveled the world with Graham starting with the first Crusade in Michigan in 1947. “Cliff Barrows was the voice behind my father for 60 years, emceeing the platform for his Crusades and ‘The Hour of Decision’ radio program,” said Billy Graham’s son Franklin. He was 93-years-old and passed away at the hospital after a brief illness.

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