June 2020
Beasley Media Group Detroit Collaborates with Local Community Leaders to Host ‘Solutions Not Slogans’
On June 25, Beasley Media Group’s 105.9 Kiss FM (WDMK-FM/Detroit) on-air personalities Mason and Angie Star, along with 105.1 The Bounce (WMGC-FM) Morning Show Host Gello and The Detroit Praise Network’s (93.5, 98.3, 99.9) Randi Myles hosted a zoom conference call with community leaders to discuss ways to bridge the gap between residents and the…
Read MoreNATAS Michigan Announces 42nd Annual Regional EMMY® Winners
With an online ceremony held this past Saturday (6/20), National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/Michigan announced the winners of the 42nd Annual Regional EMMY® Awards. Television stations, both commercial and public, cable networks, ad agencies and production houses throughout Michigan were honored. This was the first year the awards were presented online, due to…
Read MoreMichigan Radio Debuts ‘Kids These Days’ Podcast By Teens, About Teens
Michigan Radio has announced the debut of Kids These Days, a new podcast that offers an insider’s perspective on what it’s like to be a teenager today. This limited-run podcast is hosted by teens, and is a collaboration between Community High School in Ann Arbor and Michigan Radio’s Peabody Award-winning podcast team. Topics range from…
Read MoreFormer WATZ General Manager ‘Uncle Don Rhea’ Passes
The MAB has learned that former WATZ-AM/FM (Alpena) General Manager Don Rhea passed away June 20 at the age of 88. Born Jack D. Rhea in 1931, he was known professionally as “Uncle Don Rhea.” Rhea spent more than 25 years on-air at KCKN-AM/FM in Kansas City, Kansas He also put KBUC-FM, San Antonio, Texas,…
Read MoreWJBK’s Sherry Margolis Announces Retirement
After 35 years as an anchor at WJBK-TV (Detroit), Sherry Margolis has announced she is retiring. The announcement was made Wednesday (6/24) during the station’s 5 p.m. newscast. “It’s been my home for more than 35 years. It’s been the most amazing, remarkable, wonderful career that anybody can ever hope for,” Margolis said Wednesday. “I…
Read MoreLongtime Lansing Broadcaster Mychal Grenawalt Retires after 40 Years
After 40 years in the broadcasting industry, longtime Lansing-area broadcaster Mychal Grenawalt has announced his retirement. He has spent the last seven years as a senior account executive with Nexstar Broadcasting’s WLNS/WLAJ-TV. After starting in the Detroit market running co-op programs for broadcast, Grenawalt joined the sales team for the launch of WJXQ-FM (Lansing). He…
Read MoreFCC Seeking Comment on the Origination of Programming by FM Translators
By: David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP Should broadcasters be able to originate programming on FM translators? Playing off the proposal to allow limited amounts of programming on FM boosters – basically the insertion of local ads, news, or emergency alerts – in the zonecasting proposal on which the FCC took comments earlier this year (see…
Read More8 Elements That Radio Shows Can Use On Their Shownotes Webpages
By: Seth Resler Jacobs Media Strategies Last week, I wrote about how radio shows — especially morning shows — can borrow the practice of creating “shownotes” pages from podcasters and use them as part of a broader digital strategy to grow their audience through email, social media, and search engines. In that post, I outlined…
Read MoreWDET Reaches Out to Listeners with Zoom Town Hall
While not the only public broadcaster faced with budget concerns over the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, WDET-FM (Detroit) General Manager Mary Zatina hosted a virtual town hall on Zoom to explain WDET’s situation with its listeners. Like so many businesses and non-profit organizations, WDET has lost a substantial portion of the funding that helps…
Read MoreBlarney Stone Broadcasting Q100 Set to Become One Giant Super Q
Q100 WQON-FM (Grayling) is raising its voice, dramatically expanding its reach throughout central and northern Michigan. Branded by Blarney Stone Broadcasting as “The Only Place for Rock & Roll,” Q100’s new signals will deliver deep cuts spanning 60 years of Rock & Roll and will be heard across Northern Michigan from Clare up to Sault…
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