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Airdate 01/29/10 7:46am Here are the latest numbers for the Ft. Wayne market. Read them by clicking here Airdate 01/27/10 11:18am Starting February 8th, 21Alive TV will expand it's live newscast to one hour starting at 5pm. Melissa Long will anchor and Curtis Smith will handle weather duties. E.T. moves to 7pm. “Expanding our strong 5:00 p.m. news programming to deliver live news for a full hour is natural for our viewers and advertisers,” explains President and General Manager Jerry Giesler. “We’ve led the market for years in live programming and this provides yet another opportunity for viewers to receive the live local news they value.” Airdate 01/21/10 7:55am See how the Indy market did in the ARB by clicking here Airdate 01/20/10 11:33am The Alma Corporation has filed CPs for TV channels 30, 33, 39 and 49 in Wolcott. Calvery Radio Network Inc. has picked up WCJL-FM Morgantown, WLHP-FM, Hanna, WJCO-FM, Montpelier,WJCY-FM, Cicero, WOJC-FM, Crothersville, WQKO-FM, Howe and WTMK-FM, Lowell. Yesterday a Hungarian court ruled in favor of Emmis-owned Slager Radio and that the National Radio and Television Board illegally awarded a national radio broadcast contract to FM 1. The ruling means that Slager was one of only two qualifying bids in the recent tender for Hungary's two national radio licenses. Emmis won the broadcasting license in 1997 and has operated the facilities for 12 years and investing almost 30 billion forints. Speaking of Emmis, a couple of programming vets join their ranks. Alan Furst will be the Director of Talk Programming for the Emmis Indianapolis cluster and the Program Director for WIBC. Alan programmed WIRE in Indianapolis back in the 80’s where he worked with one Tom Severino. David Wood will be the Program Director for B-105.7 and The Fan. Wood was with Susquehanna in Indianapolis where he served as Program Director of WFMS and ultimately the Director of Programming for Susquehanna Indianapolis. He launched GOLD 104.5 and 93.9 The SONG in Indy. Furts and Wood will report directly to Bob Richards who will continues as Director of Programming for Emmis Indianapolis while also serving as PD for WLHK. Airdate 01/18/10 11:24am Another sales person has left WBIW/WPHZ/WQRK, the second in 30 days. Amanda Wecht has moved on after a short stint there. Lack of listener response has made selling time on the stations very hard. Make sure to turn off those office lights so you don't get written up. Airdate 01/14/10 7:54am Sycom Media Group Inc has filed CPs for TV channels 14, 19, 21 and 51 in Ft. Wayne Airdate 01/13/10 11:40am Jimmy Matis a.k.a. Mad Dog is the latest shake up in Indiana radio. Mad Dog, a fixture at WFBQ-Q95 was bounced last week when his contract wasn't renewed. "They just said, 'We're going to go in a different direction'... my direction was out the door", Matis said. Hitting the 3-7 airchair for Q95 is Dave Gunner. The face of Indy radio is starting to change a bit. Why are people losing faith in radio? Here are two examples I caught Friday that may show why. One FM was making a big deal, as usual, with their top of the hour ID and played a tone to mark the top of the hour. Stating it was 4pm, I looked at my watch, car radio clock and cell phone... they all said 4:08pm. Scanning to another FM, they were giving basketball game cancelations due to the weather. Making a BIG deal that the game they were broadcasting "tonight" would be moved to Saturday night, they hit the spot set. First spot, a full promo with sponsors telling people to tune in "tonight" for the big game. He was the voice of US-30 Dragstrip ads and others, (Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!), Jan Gabriel has passed at age 69. He worked a stint at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway. He passed away, ironically, on a Sunday.
Airdate 01/12/10 11:32am WFLI-TV18 has surprised many with some staff cuts. News Anchor Sue Scott, and 3 other station employees were given their walking papers last week. Two of the staffers were department heads. The reason for the cuts was "industrywide downturn". Joining Scott in the bad "news" was News Director Chris Morisse, Sales Manager Jenny Olszewski and Video Journalist Gary Higgins. WLFI is owned by LIN TV Corp., which owns 27 network affiliate broadcast stations in 17 markets nationwide. An 18.5% drop in consolidated revenue for its fiscal third quarter was reported by Emmis Communications. Emmis did post earnings of $1.7 million compared to a $125.7 million loss in the year-ago period. CEO Jeff Smulyan said "we're seeing improvements.We are projecting that our first positive numbers since April 2008 are just a month or two away -- and could possibly hit our books this month." WITT gets some nice ink via The Indy Star. Read it here
Airdate 01/7/10 11:33am Kent Sterling is out as PD at WIBC/1070 The Fan. You can keep up with him at his blog by clicking here Other changes to ring in the new year include changes at WBTU. Dave Steele is out as PD/Middays. Phil Becker grabs the title of OM/PD. Becker is already OM/PD at sister properties WJOE and WJFX. The midday airchair at BTU is filled by Ashley Figueroa. Ashley was working swing at WJFX. She'll also take care of the WBTU website.
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