Industry News Bits WED 11-6-24

November 6, 2024

Fundraisers this week .. UCB/UK .. Lighthouse Radio Network/St Johns, CN .. Let us know when your Station Fundraiser takes place… news@hisair.net

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OCT Nielsen PPM results are all in for subscriber stations.

Go HERE for latest PPM ratings. NOV release starts 11/25

AQH Share for Persons 12+, Mon-Sun 6AM-Mid OCT
WERC HD2/Birmingham – 4.0
WAGG/Birmingham – 1.7
WPZZ/Richmond – 3.4

KFIS/Portland (104.1 The Fish) turned the switch this week to All Christmas music.

The 4th annual Small Market Radio Summit 2025 takes place January 8-11, 2025 in Myrtle Beach, SC.

SMRS is an event designed to help you as a leader in a smaller market better tell your story to your donors, partners, and supporters so as to steward the resources that have been given to them. Informal conversational sessions will include content that will help you learn to tell their stories, find out what a partner really wants (and needs) to hear, and how to take your story and gain support for your cause.

Speakers include Jason Sharp, Jon Hamilton, Bill Sammons, Todd Stach, & more. More info HERE.

HisAir Job Alert sponsored by FaithSearch Partners

88.9 Moody Radio (WMBW Chattanooga) is an actively growing audience-first multimedia ministry that creates and delivers biblical, practical, and relevant content that helps individuals take their next step with Jesus. You appreciate this mission and would love for God to use your promotions and morning show technical producer skills for the sake of the gospel, then 88.9 Moody Radio is looking for applicants like you.

If interested go HERE.

Benztown offers stations of all formats and market sizes its holiday-packed, market-exclusive “Christmas in a Box” audio production library to stations two ways this Christmas season: First, stations can get the “Christmas in a Box” library for FREE with a Benztown library subscription. New this year are 25 highly engaging and fun “Behind the Holiday Hits” features, created by producer extraordinaire Val Garris. Second, also available from Benztown as a freebie is the Christmas in a Box AudioPack, filled with holiday cheer, including festive SFX and musicbeds sure to bring Christmas cheer to listeners who need a little Christmas now. Now through January 1, 2025.

Contact Masa Patterson, Benztown, at: mp@benztown.com or at: (818) 842-4600. To find out more go HERE

The CMB Nashville Summit takes place this week Nov 7-8. The 2 day Summit will focus on Music & Programming on Thursday and On Air strategies on Friday.

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HisAir INDUSTRY NEWS FLASHBACK – On This Day Nov 6, 2023

Congrats to Texas based Voice Over talent Linda O’Brien Gorski who was inducted in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame (TRHOF) Class of 2023.

Twenty individuals were honored Saturday, November 4th at the TRHOF’s Annual Induction Ceremony at the Texas Museum of Broadcasting and Communications in Kilgore, TX. Including KSBJ/Houston co-founder Buddy Holiday. Holiday passed away September 8, 2017 and signed on then new station KSBJ in 1982. He retired in 2001.

Milestones:
Andy Waldrop 7 years at KSBJ/Houston

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