On Instagram over the weekend Ben Fordham saw Hamish Blake spruiking a weight loss product. It looked like Hamish, sounded like Hamish, but Fordham and those who know Blake all knew that something about it wasn’t right.
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Misty Fisher is hosting breakfast on 2GF 89.5 Grafton while also studying the Graduate Diploma in Radio with the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) part time. She’s been with 2GF about six months now after the former host of 30 years, Richie Williamson, stepped into politics. Every time she thinks or is asked about her on-air role, she is so overwhelmingly happy she feels like she needs to pinch herself.
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A round of layoffs took place at American General Media’s four markets last week. We’ve been told that approximately 20 employees were let go from the company’s clusters in Albuquerque NM and Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Maria CA. The most notable name to come public was AAA “92.5 The Krush” KKAL Paso Robles/San […] […]
Russia has detained Alsu Kurmasheva, a Prague-based editor at US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).Kurmasheva, 47, holds both US and Russian passports and works for RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir service. She travelled to Russia on May 20 for a family emergency. She was temporarily detained on June 2 and arrested again on Wednesday, October 18.She has been charged with not registering as a ‘foreign agent,’ according to RFE/RL. If proven guilty, she could face up to five years in prison.
She is the second western reporter to be jailed on spy charges in Russia in the last seven months. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested for alleged spying in March. Since then, he has appeared in court several times since and unsuccessfully appealed his detention.“Kurmasheva is an accomplished journalist who has long covered ethnic minority communities in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in the Volga-Ural region of Russia,” RFE/RL said.“She has reported on initiatives to protect and preserve the Tatar language and culture from Russian authorities, who have exerted increased pressure on Tatars in recent years.”The Committee to Protect Journalists said: “CPJ is deeply concerned by the detention of U.S-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva on spurious criminal charges and calls on Russian authorities to release her immediately and drop all charges against her,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Journalism is not a crime and Kurmasheva’s detention is yet more proof that Russia is determined to stifle independent reporting.”Photo: YouTube […]
The FCC has proposed a $25,000 fine against Rocking M Media and co-owned Melia Communications for violating the EEO rules by failing to upload their annual EEO Public File Reports in the Stations’ online public inspection files, upload their EEO Public File Reports to the Stations’ websites, broadly recruit for certain vacancies, analyze their EEO program, and maintain their recruitment records. The fine was levied against the company’s clusters in Colby and Dodge City KS.
The FCC states, “Because of significant operational challenges,the Licensees experienced a sharp drop in the number of employees, whereby in late 2021, the Colby/Goodland SEU had only one full-time employee, and the Dodge City/Ingalls SEU had fewer than five full-time employees.” The company failed to publish their EEO reports in Dodge City for February 1, 2019 through January 31, 2021 and in Colby from February 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020. The report notes that the company failed to recruit adequately for two of five vacancies in Colby. An Assistant Office Manager position filled on June 1, 2020 was advertised “solely through on-air advertisements on the Licensees’ own stations” and a Farm Broadcaster position was filled on July 16, 2020 from an internal recommendation by the outgoing Farm Broadcaster. The company also failed to produce and recruitment records from February 2019 through January 2021.
As part of Sukhdev Dhillon filing in August to purchase Mohan Cheema’s 80% stake of 1680 KNTS Seattle for $70,000, the FCC has opened a comment period on Baaz Broadcasting Corp.’s petition to increase foreign ownership of the station to 100%. Dhillon, a Canadian citizen, acquired KNTS with Cheema earlier this year from from Salem Media Group for $225,000.
The FCC has modified the FM Table of Allotments granting 7430 Technologies LLC’s request to add a Class C2 on 103.3 in Wharton TX.
License Cancellations
Eastern Oregon University has turned in the license of 91.7 KEOL La Grande OR.
The FCC has cancelled the licenses of Hispanic Family Christian Network’s 97.3 K247BX Grass Valley CA, 103.3 K277CL Stateline NV, and 103.5 K278CA El Dorado Hills CA for being silent over one year.
Brigham Young University – Idaho surrendered the license of 105.5 K288DZ Dillon MT.
Silent Notifications
Iglesia Misionera Jesucristo Viene Pronto, Inc.’s 710 WYJV Smyrna TN (Transmitter failure)
Townsquare Media’s 1280 KSLI Abilene TX (Transmitter failure)
Kyros Media Corp.’s 93.7 KWXW Kermit TX (Tower dismantled by site owner)
FM Changes
KSE Media Sports “Altitude 92.5” KKSE-FM Broomfield/Denver CO proposes to move […]
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Choices, choices. The in-car audio landscape today offers myriad options, including radio receivers, satellite radio receivers, voice-activated speakers, and Bluetooth or aux cord capabilities that allow for listening to smartphones and other content. Increasingly, vehicles are equipped with smartphone-based infotainment systems Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and consumers are moving towards a seamless phone-to-audio experience.
How does the presence of these systems affect the time spent consuming audio in-car?
This week’s insight comes from Edison Research’s Share of Ear dataset, which is based on a one-day listening diary and measures the amount of time those in the U.S. age 13+ spend with all audio. Respondents also answer some demographic and consumer questions, including the presence of audio infotainment in-car systems in the primary vehicle in which they drive or ride.
The graphic below compares the in-car daily audio time for those who don’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Audio in the primary vehicle they drive or ride in, versus those who do have one of the systems.
The top bar shows that among listeners who don’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, they spend the majority of their in-car audio time, 67%, listening to AM/FM radio, including over-the-air and streams. They spend 9% of their audio time streaming, 12% with SiriusXM, 4% with Podcasts, and 8% of their audio time with some other audio source, such as CDs.
The bottom bar shows that those who do have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto in their primary vehicles spend twice as much time streaming: 18% of their daily in-car audio time is spent streaming, compared with 9% of daily in-car audio time spent streaming by those without the systems. They also spend more of their daily in-car audio time with podcasts than listeners who don’t have the systems: 7% compared with 4%.
Listeners who do have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto spend 46% of their time with AM/FM — 27% less than those who don’t have CarPlay or Auto.
Even those with these systems choose AM/FM for nearly half of their in-car listening. For many people, even with so many new options, radio and the in-car environment continue to just go together. […]
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