July 2020
WDET Debuts New Broadcast/Podcast Series: Essential Cooking
WDET-FM 101.9’s Ann Delisi, host of Essential Music, and award-winning chef James Rigato of Hazel Park’s Mabel Gray restaurant formed a friendship several years ago over their mutual love of food and music. They have since collaborated on cooking events and talked about music and food on WDET’s airwaves. The duo’s latest joint venture —…
Read MoreMcKibbin Media Group Goes Digital with COVID-19 Content
McKibbin Media Group’s Ashley Smith recently shared with the MAB the digital efforts of the company’s Jackson radio stations during the COVID-19 pandemic: These efforts include: COVID-19 Information Center: https://www.wkhm.com/2020/03/19/wkhm-covid-19-information-center/. Features a listing of “still open” and recently reopened businesses and restaurants at no charge Provides latest news coverage from the state and local levels…
Read MoreTownsquare Battle Creek Raises $35,750 for Homeless Shelter
On Friday, June 26, Townsquare Media’s WBCK-FM and WBXX-FM (Battle Creek) presented their 14th Annual Roofsit, raising money to benefit the Haven of Rest’s Inasmuch House, Calhoun County’s only shelter for homeless families. The event is usually held over two days. This year it was one. Personalities from both stations were live for 12 hours…
Read More$15,000 FCC Fine Proposed for Underwriting Announcements that Were Too Commercial
By: David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP When do noncommercial stations stray from permissible acknowledgment of those local businesses that provide funding for its operations to impermissible commercials? That question was addressed in a Notice of Apparent Liability issued by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau on Thursday (7/2), proposing a $15,000 fine for a low power FM station whose underwriting…
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