KMBI/Spokane
welcomes Kyrsten Lee as the new PD and PM drive
personality. Lee was most recently with Spirit 101.9FM in
Spokane. (5/27)
WCVK/Bowling Green MD
Geoffrey Powviriya will leave the station June 16th.
Geoffrey plans to enter graduate school at the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville. Whitney will succeed Geoffrey as
WCVK MD. (5/26)
Patrick Green is the
new PD at Northern Christian Radio in Gaylord, MI. Patrick
was most recently with KJIL/Meade, KS. Northern Christian
Radio broadcast on WPHN 90.5
FM Gaylord, WOLW 91.1 FM Cadillac, WHST 106.1 FM Tawas City
and W204AQ 88.7 FM in Newberry. Patrick first day was May
24th. (5/24)
As reported earlier
Andy Haynes has not left the GM/PD position at
WJLF/Gainesville but is seeking other opportunities. (5/24)
GMA’s
Music in the Rockies will celebrate its 30th year August
1-7, 2004 at the Estes Park Center YMCA. GMA’s 30th Annual
Music in the Rockies, formerly known as Seminar in the
Rockies, will feature six days of educational/professional
development seminars, talent competitions and music events.
“I am confident in saying that this event is unique in the
music business. We have gathered in the spectacular Rocky
Mountains every year for 30 years with a singular purpose of
discovering, developing and mentoring gospel music talent,”
said John W. Styll, president of the Gospel Music
Association (GMA). There
are several key deadlines for registering for GMA’s 30th
Annual Music in the Rockies and specifically the talent
competitions. All the details for registration can be found
at
http://www.gospelmusic.org/rockies.
GMA Music in the Rockies started in 1974. That summer,
in 2000, the GMA acquired Seminar in the Rockies from
Christian Artist Corporation. In 2004, GMA changed the name
to GMA Music in the Rockies. (5/20)
KCWJ/Kansas
City is a finalist for Missouri Broadcasters Association's
Promotion of the Year for a morning show stunt that Darren
Marlar & Anthony Norman, pulled last winter as a benefit for
The Dream Factory. The "12 Days or $12,000" of Christmas
promotion raised close to $14,000 for the organization and
is now a finalist to win large-market promotion of the year
for 2004 from MBA. Winners will be announced at MBA in St.
Louis on June 12th. To hear the MP3 audio of the contest
entry, click below:
http://www.marlarhouse.com/demo/12DaysDreamFactory.mp3
(5/18)
Quickies:
Susan Choy has resigned her promotions position at Star
99.1/New York. Susan will be relocating to California with
her husband and daughter... WJLF/Gainesville GM/PD Andy
Haynes has left the station... Greg Fritz is the new VP of
Marketing at Big Idea, Inc creators of Veggietales. (5/17)
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WFZH/Milwaukee makes
Peter Horn it's midday personality from doing nights at The
Fish. And John Lauritch is now heard in the night slot.
(5/13)
Why has Big Ben
dropped all Forefront and Gotee artists from the playlist of
his "My Generation" program? HisAir hears "Third Days" tour
manager giving favor to another station at a recent concert
date did not go over very well with Ben. If you have any
questions or concerns on this decision you can reach Ben at
602-341-7312. (5/12)
BeBe
Winans will host a new
weekly
two-hour
radio
show
syndicated by
Superadio Networks.
"I'm thrilled to bring to people of all races a syndicated
radio show that showcases urban and gospel music and offers
the biggest names in music and entertainment to the
fans. It's unlike anything out there and indeed a dream come
true for me," said Winans. (512)
Buffi Holland is
leaving her Promotions position at Spring Hill Music to
concentrate on motherhood. Spring Hill is seeking Buffi's
replacement so if you're interested use this email address
decrement@springhillmusic.com. (5/12)
Moody
Broadcasting Network and Compassion International celebrate
their partnership by reaching 173% of their campaign goal
with a grand total of 4,415 children sponsored from 10
different radio campaigns. Not only was this the largest CI
campaign by a network of stations, it also included the CI
campaign with the largest single station response of 1,854
children sponsored by MBN's flagship station in Chicago,
WMBI. For more information contact
Robin.Jones@moody.edu.
(5/12)
WRCM/Charlotte
has hired former Mrs.Carolina 2001, Leslie Nease as the
stations new Morning Show Co-host. Leslie joins Gary Morland
on the Family Friendly Morning Show on New Life 91.9...
(5/10)
Salem
Communications announced that it will be acquiring KPOI-FM
(97.5 FM) and KHUI-FM (99.5 FM), both licensed to Honolulu,
Hawaii, from Visionary Related Entertainment, LLC. The
combined purchase price is $3.7 million.
Edward G. Atsinger III,
President and CEO, commented, "The acquisition of these two
full market FM stations will give Salem three FM and five AM
stations serving the Honolulu market. This addition will
provide attractive economies of scale to our overall
Honolulu cluster, and will significantly enhance our FM
coverage of this market." (5/7)
KKJM/St Cloud
has brought on Pam Brooks as morning show co-host.
Pam has been acting co-host since April 24th, joining Spirit
92.9 PD and current morning host Scott Michaels. Pam has
been with Classic Rock KQDS/Duluth and Minnesota Public
Radio. News & Sports Anchor Mark Lewandoski stays aboard in
his current role. (5/5)
WYLV/Knoxville
Promotion Director Marisa Lykins relates her brush
with Mercy Me at GMA last week. According to the story
here's what happened. Two unsuspecting staff members of WYLV
(Love89) Knoxville (namely GM David Wells and Marisa) got on
the elevator at floor 23 of the Renassaince. A few floors
down a multitude of Mercy Me members and friends got on in
quite the jovial mood. Around floor 16 the doors opened once
again where Mercy Me convinced two more people who initially
had no intent of joining them to do so (mistake #1). After a
round of applause they began to descend once more. Somewhere
around floor two they stopped but the doors did not open.
Not sensing any real panic Mercy Me for some reason found
the idea of jumping up and down and that jarring us loose
since they weren't up on a higher floor a good idea (mistake
#2). This eventually worked BUT they ended up sublevel -
below floor one and the doors still would not open. After
much sweating (glassed-in elevator, good sized guys) and
finding the red "Bat Phone" and calling for help, they were
pried loose and stepped up about a foot and a half to safety
and the applause of was seemed like hundreds that were
waiting on the elevator. Always in "promotion mode" Marisa
asked one of the guys with a camera phone to snap a picture
and email it to her! (Pictured are the hostages of elevator
#2 click
here to view)
(5/4)
KLVV/Ponca
City, OK recently received a reader’s choice award for “Best
Radio” in Enid, OK as voted on by residents of the Enid
community and subscribers of the Enid News & Eagle. KLVV is
rebroadcast in Enid on 98.3. KLVV was chosen number one for
“Best Radio” station from the six stations in the Enid
market. (5/3)
Crawford
Broadcasting will add WQOP AM, to it's Birmingham cluster of
stations. The station will be purchased for 1.15 million
from Queen Of Peace Radio. Crawford already owns WDJC and
WYDE AM/FM. (4/29)
"The
Fundraising School for Listener-Supported Christian Radio"
will be presented by ShareMedia Aug. 10-13 in Colorado
Springs, CO. Click
here! or you call ShareMedia Services at 651-631-5016
for details. (4/29)
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GMA's
35th Annual Music Awards are history. Artists MercyMe,
Switchfoot, Stacie Orrico and Jeremy Camp were among the big
winners when the Doves were handed out. (Click
here for a complete list of recipients.)
INO Records' MercyMe grabbed
the biggest honor of the night, Artist of the Year; their
first time earning the Dove in this category. They also took
home Group of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of
the Year for "Word of God Speak." "Word of God Speak" was
also named Song of the Year, giving band leader and
songwriter Bart Millard, with his co-writer, Pete Kipley,
each a pair of Doves for their songwriting efforts. Female
Vocalist of the Year honors went to ForeFront Records/Virgin
Records artist Stacie Orrico, who also earned honors for
Pop/Contemporary Album for her self-titled sophomore project
and Short Form Video of the Year for "(There's Gotta Be)
More to Life." BEC Recordings' Jeremy Camp garnered a pair
of top Doves, for Male Vocalist of the Year and New Artist
of the Year. Overall, Switchfoot lead singer and songwriter
Jonathan Foreman took home the most Dove trophies.
GMA Music Awards will later
be broadcast on UPN on May 28 at 8-10 p.m. ET/PT.
(4/28)
Dave
Fiorazo joins Christian Family Radio WEMI/Appleton/Oshkosh,
and WEMY/Green Bay as new Morning Show Host and Promotions
Coordinator. Dave comes to Christian Family Radio from
KWVE-FM as morning drive host & promotions director and
KFSG/Los Angeles. Dave’s professional experience also
includes extensive music, film, television, and commercial
projects. (4/28)
Todd
Christopher has been hired as
the host of the new morning
show "Rise and Shine" and as corporate music director for
Christian Family Radio's WGNV/Central
Wisconsin. Wild about music, Todd radio career includes
WZER/Milwaukee and 105.5 The Fish-also in Milwaukee as night
personality. (4/28)
KAFC/Anchorage
makes some changes to it's on air line-up. Desi moves up
from middays to PM drive, Joe King moves from PM Drive up to
Morning Drive and starts up the Stinky Joe & The Morning
Show, Former Morning show hosts Tom Steigleman and Pam Cole
move to mid-days. (4/27)
WMKL/Miami (91.7 The
Call) has received FCC approval for a power increase to 50kw
and a new tower site location. The upgrade will
increase its potential listening audience
from approximately 220,000 people to over 1.5 Million.
Target date for the completion of the signal
upgrade is June 1, 2004. (4/26)
WDLM/East
Moline (AM960), owned by Moody Broadcasting, has teamed up
with local Evangelical Free Churches, and HCJB World Radio
to provide 12 hours (6AM-6PM) of daily Christian radio
programming for the Hispanic community living in the Quad
Cities along the Illinois-Iowa border. For more information
contact
Lane.Morgan@moody.edu. (4/26)
Salem
Communications net broadcasting revenues rose 11.5% to $43.2
million, with operating income up from $3.2 (including a
$3.2 million charge for loss of a tower relocation and
license upgrade) to $8 million in the first quarter 2004.
Salem is projecting second quarter net broadcasting revenue
of over $47 million.
Commenting on these results, Edward G. Atsinger III,
President and CEO said, "Our better than expected first
quarter results were driven by improvements in our
developing radio properties and reflect the high growth
nature of our station group in an improving advertising
environment. We are especially pleased with our ability to
leverage our 10.0% same station revenue performance into an
impressive 27.3% same station operating income growth. We
also expanded our station operating income margin to 36.2%
from 32.0% in the same quarter last year." (4/26)
"Bill
Bennett's Morning in America," syndicated national morning
talk show, will host its program live from the studios of
WNTP/Philadelphia (AM 990) on Wednesday, April 28. "Morning
in America" currently is heard on 70 stations. The show
website is at
www.bennettmornings.com. (4/23)
Listeners
to WFSH/Atlanta (104.7 The Fish) raised $156,000 during the
"Day of Hope," fundraiser on April 21st. This money was
raised in 12 hours and all proceeds will go to benefit a
local charity to help build a new fishing village in Anato
Bay, Jamaica, which will be the 7th fishing village in
Jamaica that WFSH and its listeners have helped to build.
Pictures from the fishing villages helped in the past can be
seen at
www.thefishatlanta.com. (4/23)
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Quick
Bits: WJIS/Sarasota Promotions
Director Andrea Kleid
joins EMI
CMG starting April 26th...
Jeremy
Tracey
is leaving his post as
imaging
director/afternoons at WRCM/Charlotte
to be production director at
WCIC/Peoria...
Joel
Schrap
exits the Provident Label Group. (4/22)
The
Southwest NRB convention has confirmed its line up of
speakers, including Frank Wright, Erwin Lutzer, Wess
Stafford, Phil Cooke, Chuck Bolte, and Bob Lepine, for their
July 22-24 Convention in Dallas, Texas. For more
information
www.swnrb.org.
(4/20)
Jenna James joins
WHMX/Bangor as the stations new midday personality and host
of two youth oriented weekend shows. And congratulations to
the WHMX staff on the success of their recent Spring
Share-a-thon. (4/19)
Quenton Rockwell has
been elevated to PD at KAXF/Houston effective immediately.
Rockwell replaces Brian Graham who exits the station. (4/19)
Mike Bingham has been
named Moody Broadcasting Network Department Manager for
Broadcast Stations. Bingham has most recently been National
Program Director and has been with Moody for over 25 years.
Mike will oversee the MBN owned and operated stations and be
located in the MBN offices in South Florida. (4/19)
The Provident Label
Group has realigned their promotions department. Andrew
Patton remains as VP/Nat'l Promotions and
oversee the promotions department. Jason
Miller has been named manager of national promotions and
will focus on major market Adult Contemporary stations.
Melanie Dixon, formerly national promotions assistant, has
been promoted to national promotions coordinator and will
focus on Adult Contemporary and Inspirational radio formats.
Karrie Hardwick will serve as national promotions
coordinator for the label group, focusing on Christian Hit
Radio (CHR) formats. Christina Ryan has been hired as
national promotions assistant. (4/16)
WCLQ/Wausau has
received the FCC ok to up it's power to 90kw thus increasing
coverage to over 1mil population... WAWZ/New York PD Johnny
Stone says to be on the lookout for the collector Star 99.1
"hoodies" at GMA this year. Stone will be broadcasting live
backstage at the Dove Awards. (4/16)
All Access has named
former Country music record rep Mike Severson as it's new
Contemporary Christian format editor. Mike replaces
Jason
Miller who left to become Manager of National Promotions at the
Provident Label Group. (4/13)
Christian
radio pioneer David L. Hofer passed away Thursday (April 8)
at the age of 86. Hofer and his brother Egon put KRDU-AM on
the air in Dinuba, California in 1946. The brothers were
inspired to launch KRDU by a migrant missionary who was
upset at the loss of Christian radio during World War II.
KRDU changed owners several times since 1997 and is
currently owned by Clear Channel but remains Christian
format. Hofer also served as the president of the National
Religious Broadcasters. (4/13)
KNLE/Austin was
expected to be back on the air today after a fire knocked
the station off the air Saturday (4/10). The fire broke out
at a company located next to the station tower and melted
support cable bringing the 230 ft. tower down. Engineers say
the stations signal will be shifted to another tower. (4/12)
Jimmy Swaggart
Ministries purchases KBDD/Wichita from American Family
Association and will simulcast The Sonlife Radio Network
24/7. (4/12)
RANDOM
NOTES:
HisAir.Net is sad to report the passing of gospel radio
pioneer Tim . Smith who died April 8th. You may remember
Smith on the air in Detroit...
The CMB (Christian Music Broadcasters
Association) will hold a membership meeting on Sunday April
25th at 5pm during GMA week at the Nashville Convention
Center & Renaissance Hotel... New contact info for "The
Fish" KFIS 104.1/The Fish, 6400 Southeast Lake Road, Suite
350, Portland, OR 97222 Phone: 503-786-0600, Fax
503-786-1551... (4/9)
WMBI/Chicago
has appointed Wayne Pederson as the new station manager
effective May 17, 2004. Pederson most recently worked as
Special Assistant to the President at Bethel College and
Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Prior to that he served as
president/COO of Mission America Coalition and spent the
largest part of his career at Northwestern Radio in
Minneapolis from 1967-2002 concluding his career with them
as executive vice president for radio. (4/8)
Salem
promotes three GM's to VP/GM in their respective markets.
They are Russ Whitnah WFIL/WNTP Philadelphia, Pete
Thomson KSKY/KWRD Dallas, and John Peroyea KLTY Dallas.
(4/7)
GMA/NCRS
Station Of The Year winners are as follows: Small Mkt
WBGL/Champaign, Medium Mkt WCQR/Johnson City, Large Mkt
KXOJ/Tulsa, Major Mkt KLTY/Dallas. (4/6)
WZFS/Chicago "The
Fish" PD Kevin Robinson has left the station. Also exiting
Salem Chicago is WYLL Operations Coordinator Brian Jones.
Stepping into the PD chair is Fish MD/PM drive personality
Tom Fridley. Also grabbing new assignments at The Fish are
Creative Director Eric Thomas who becomes APD, Diane Sosa
moves from nights to middays, and Production Director Brian
Kovacs is now on the air at night. WYLL morning guy Roger
Plummer is now the station PD. (4/5)
Salem
Communications launched former Secretary of Education
William J. Bennett national talk radio show "Morning in
America" on 66 radio stations across the country today (mon
4/5).
The guest list for the first show includes: Rush
Limbaugh, Donald Rumsfeld, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill
Cowher, Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Pat Sajak,
former Clinton attorney and D.C. lawyer Bob Bennett, Tim
Russert, Naomi Judd and author/commentator George Will. The
show will be broadcast nationally on XM Satellite Radio at
Channel 166, on the web at www.bennettmornings.com, and on
several Salem Communications stations including KRLA-AM (870
AM) Los Angeles, KSKY-AM (660 AM) Dallas-Ft. Worth, and
WNPT-AM (990 AM), Philadelphia, plus Entercom's KTTH/Seattle
and Citadel-owned WETR/Knoxville, plus dozens of other
news/talk outlets across the nation. (4/5)
HisAir.Net is once
again happy to offer free daily show prep courtesy of Darren
Marlar and "The Rude Awakening" heard mornings on AM 1030
The Light in Kansas City. Click
here
for show prep. Contact Darren at
Darren@1030theLight.com. (4/5)
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CHANGES:
Amy Davis
has left her mid-day slot at "The Fish" WZFS/Chicago due to
cutbacks... Star 99.1 WAWZ/New York Morning co-host
Stacy Austin
is upped to Promotion Director.
Scott Taylor, Station
Manager, explains it well, “Stacey came in and created new
ideas and events that have increased the visibility and
revenue of the station, all the while, raising the level of
entertainment for our morning show, Johnny Stone in the
Morning. She is a perfect fit for this position and
brings 11 years of experience to the table.” (4/2)
