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Farmington Hills, Mich./Champaign, IL. (October 24) – MarCom, awarding excellence in marketing, branding, and communications each year among dozens of categories across an international spectrum, has honored Tanner Friedman Strategic Communications with a Gold award for its weekly radio show on WEFT-FM Radio, “My Favorite Vinyl with Don Tanner.” The program combines public affairs with … Continued
Social media, especially Facebook, is at its worst when posters are arguing with people who barely know the same person they barely know. Wednesday night, after the murder of Charlie Kirk, it was ugly. So ugly, some of those who felt like they just had to post what was off the top of their heads … Continued
They say the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. I’ve said, after years of working with clients in crisis, that there’s nothing professionals can do to help an emergence from crisis until the client admits it’s in crisis. Those were my first thoughts as I attended the “Local News … Continued
On August 26, 2024, WCBS-AM will no longer exist. Even after writing about media change for more than 15 years, that sentence didn’t seem real as I was typing it. It’s tough to come up with an analogy to fit this situation. A corporation emerging from bankruptcy has killed the nation’s first all-news radio station. … Continued
Many seem to want to write off traditional radio with refrains such as, “Everyone is listening to their iPhones,” or, “I only listen to podcasts.” Yet, a new research study takes an interesting look at in-car consumption with data that begs to differ. Each year, and for the past decade, respected Edison Research has surveyed … Continued
Three years ago this week, radio station owner Entercom enjoyed a stock price of $187.80. Five weeks later, in March 2021, the company, which owns 227 local stations and also podcast production companies, renamed itself Audacy. Today, in bankruptcy, its stock is trading for 15 cents per share. Just last week, the investment firm that … Continued