Seattle Promo Director fraud shows managers must manage

Radio Headlines February 3, 2010

Learn from Seattle … unsupervised promo director rigs contest.  Managers must manage.

Radio-info (255,191 Monthly Visits says Compete.com) – Pandora aims local collecting zip codes to focus on selling ads to smaller businesses.  No doubt a lot of radio reps would be interested in joining Pandora as it replaces AM/FM.  InterTech, website host and designer, doing layoffs as clients CBS, Cumulus, Entercom, Lotus, Saga, Qantum, and Westwood One don’t seem to be enough.  Seattle promotion coordinator faces first-degree theft charges in rigged contest.      Read more …

All Access (92,023 Monthly Visits) – Senate moves fast to help themselves proposing new regulations strengthening lowest unit rate laws and possible matching funds for small donations.  Seattle Promo Director charged with rigged “Secret Listener Salute” contest.   Read more …

RBR (29,457) – Univision programming launches on YouTube with Kraft as a sponsor.  Steve Harvey selects streaming video service for www.steveharvey.com where 508,000 viewers have come to see him.  Same streamer also helps Kidd Kraddick, ESPN Radio, Fox Sports and others.  Read more …

Radio Ink (14,294) – Repeats Entercom press release for new director of AM sales at Entercom New England.  Second headline concerns Seattle women accused of rigging listener contest.  Read more …

Inside Radio (11,821) – Hot and Cold Forecasts for radio rev$ indicate the path is not clear yet.  Regent and Barnstable Broadcasters are ahead of the pack in building digital platforms for local advertisers.    Read more …

Inside Music Media (Unknown) – From Radio Personalities to Pork Bellies … how national groups offer commodity “radio spots” for syndicated, voice tracked, low-cost  programming.  Perhaps the only way Wall Street knows to make the groups profitable, take them public, and cash out. Read more …

Kurthanson/RAIN (8,505) – Media Army survey of radio reps finds 60% confident selling online media and that there’s a “massive untapped potential to sell online media”.   Read more …

Hear 2.0 (4,173) – Conduces the “Ed Wood Award for the Worst Radio Station Website”  Read more …

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