Posts tagged with 'radio'

 

Sit down with Afrikaans music legend Laurika Rauch in rare interview

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Cape Town – It’s a cold and rainy Thursday afternoon as I make my way to GrandWest. I’m feeling honoured and nervous at the same time as I will be sitting down to chat to one of SA music’s greats, and a personal idol of mine, Laurika Rauch. We’ve crossed paths previously, and by crossing..
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Music found me and led me to broadcasting.

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Nicky Blumenfeld aka Nicky B, host of Kaya FM’s The World Show, was a finalist in three categories in this year’s Liberty Radio Awards: Best Music Show; Best Night Time Show and Weekend Radio Show. She delivers a “musical journey that bridges generations and genres”, which travels “across continents and timelines”. What made you go..
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Triton: Webcast Listening Sees Double-Digit YOY Increase.

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Webcast listening year-over-year grew 11.22% (M-F, 6am-8pm), according to the May Webcast Metrics Report from Triton Digital. Month-to-month listening was relatively flat with digital audio publishers recording 5.34 million average audio sessions (AASs) in May compared to 5.40 in April. The year-over-year increase can be attributed to streaming pureplays, such as Spotify and Pandora. Pureplays..
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Shifts and changes breathing new life into Cape Town’s airwaves.

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There’s no real consensus on the number of cities there are in the world. It pretty much depends on the definition of what constitutes a city. What’s indisputable is that there are thousands of urban settlements the world over. And you’ll find Cape Town featuring high on any given list of the world’s top cities..
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Conclave Report: Entercom-CBS Deal Seen As Good For Radio.

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With Entercom’s CBS Radio merger inching toward the closing table, the epic deal naturally became a hot topic at the Conclave in Minneapolis. While group execs from competing companies generally agreed a new major player would be good for the industry as a whole, they also discussed how it might impact smaller companies, especially as..
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Conclave Report: Disruption, Alexa, Podcasts Are Huge For Radio.

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As technology keeps changing how Americans consume media, a prominent radio chief sees a “big pot of gold” for the industry in all the digital disruption. Enormous ad budgets once reserved for newspapers and TV are now in play for radio sellers as well. That’s how Bill Hendrich, executive VP, Radio at Cox Media Group,..
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Shifts and changes breathing new life into Cape Town’s airwaves

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Primedia’s been making some pretty major moves in all its offerings, with a strong focus on talent – none more so obvious than calling in Trish Taylor to tackle the challenge of reinvigorating KFM radio in the Cape. There’s no real consensus on the number of cities there are in the world. It pretty much..
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What IS its future radio?? It can’t stay the same all the time !!

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I don’t think anybody knows the exact future of radio, but it can’t be public auditorium interviews televised for social media. For want of a better already used word, it’s not sustainable. But the mere continuing speculation on this “future of radio” is at least an indication that there’s a general consensus that radio is..
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Radio, your cure for segregation brain disease !!

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OPINION: Radio has a spectacular ability to bring people together. Radio can create spaces for debate and introduce us to ideas we haven’t engaged with. Radio has the power to bring people together. I’ve never understood what people see in soccer. It’s not the game itself that mystifies me, it’s the ardent levels of support..
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LRN Brings Three Westwood One Execs Aboard.

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Local Radio Networks (LRN) has hired away a trio of Westwood One execs to join the group. Chris Reeves has been named executive VP/Programming & Operations, Chris Hatton takes on the role of director 24/7 Creative Services and Jonathan Steele joins as director of Programming and Operations. LRN provides 24/7 network programming to small and..
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