April 2020
Michigan Broadcasters Come Together for Another COVID-19 Town Hall
On Thursday, April 16, Broadcasters in Detroit and statewide took part in another COVID-19 Town Hall, this time featuring Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters. The two took questions from Detroit television anchors Huel Perkins (WJBK-TV), Devin Scillian (WDIV-TV) and Carolyn Clifford (WXYZ-TV). For the second time in two weeks, television stations in Detroit have…
Read MoreWMMI/WCZY Tossed TP on April 1
In a very timely promotion, Latitude Media’s WMMI-AM./FM and WCZY-FM (Mt. Pleasant) gave away 4-packs of toilet paper to over 104 families last on April 1. WCZY OM/Morning Host Shawn Powers and Afternoon Host and Sports/Promotions Director Chris Spachman tossed the precious prizes out to people’s homes as they drove around the market, all in…
Read MoreMacDonald-Garber Promotes Diane Shannon Hansell
Northern Michigan’s MacDonald Garber Broadcasting has announced the promotion of Diane Shannon Hansell to Group Operations Manager of the company’s FM music stations. Hansell has been serving as Brand Manager of the company’s WLXT-FM (Petoskey) for almost 10 years. “We are excited to have Diane take on this role of Director of FM Operations,” GM…
Read MoreMeredith TerHaar Returns to WZZM Mornings
TEGNA’s WZZM-TV (Grand Rapids) has announced that Meredith TerHaar has returned to the station’s morning team to anchor the show with James Starks and Meteorologist Laura Hartman. “I am so excited to be returning once again to my home station,” said Meredith. “Wherever my adventures in life take me, I always wind up coming back…
Read MoreFCC Asked to Consider ‘Zonecasting’ for FM Stations – Initial Comments Due May 4
By: David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP In the last few weeks, both on the radio and TV side of the broadcasting house, significant actions have been taken to potentially expand the use of zoned broadcasting to allow broadcasters to better target their audience with programming and advertisements. For TV, that is the proposed increase in…
Read MoreRadio Stations Can Use These Video Streaming Services During the Pandemic (And After It)
By: Seth Resler Jacobs Media Strategies Now that most radio personalities have been forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many are turning to video streaming tools as a way to engage with their audiences. There are, of course, dozens if not hundreds of software solutions out there, so finding the one…
Read MoreWDIV Launches Effort to Help Local Restaurants, Frontline Workers
. WDIV Local 4 and ClickOnDetroit.com launched Food4Frontline on April 2– a community-wide effort to help frontline workers and local restaurants. “Let’s support our amazing first responders that are on the front lines and working to keep us safe,” said Marla Drutz, WDIV VP & General Manager. “At the same time, we can support our…
Read MoreWJRT Celebrates Mid-Michigan Seniors With #ABC12SeniorShoutout
Proud parents of high school seniors are being encourage to decorate their front doors with and share their student’s accomplishments with the WJRT-TV news team on social media with the tag #ABC12SerniorShoutout. The station has then been featuring local high school seniors as part of regular newscasts. “It took about an hour (to decorate). Of…
Read MoreHoughton’s WOLV-FM Debuts COVID-19 Kids Project
Bringing some morning normalcy to the children of its listening area, 97.7 The Wolf (WOLV-FM/Houghton) has begun to host short stories from area teachers each weekday. Known as the “CCISD’s Supporting Kids through Radio project,” these short radio segments are aired at 8:40 a.m., about the time the children would be hearing their morning announcements…
Read MoreSinclair Promotes WSMH’s Chad Conklin to GM in Seattle
Sinclair Broadcast Group has announced that WSMH-TV (Flint) General Manager Chad Conklin has been named to the same post at KOMO-TV (ABC) and KUNS-TV (Univision) in Seattle, WA as well as radio stations KOMO Newsradio, STAR 101.5 and KVI Talk Radio. The announcement was made by Rob Weisbord, President of Sinclair’s Local News & Marketing…
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