Category: Radio
CRS Sneak Peek
Country Radio Seminar organizers are giving an early look into what lies ahead at CRS 2012. The annual event will return to the downtown Nashville Convention Center Feb. 22-24, 2012. Keynote—Bob Pittman, Clear Channel’s Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms, kicks off CRS 2012 with the keynote address on Wed., Feb. 22. Research—CRS has commissioned [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Radio
Richard Falken Joins Cumulus Nashville
Cumulus Radio is beefing up its Nashville team with the addition of radio vet Richard Falken. The CMA and ACM award-winning radio producer has been named Director of Promotion over all of the cluster’s local stations. Falklen makes the move from Clear Channel where he served as producer of Gerry House and The House Foundation [...]
Promo Change at Warner Music Nashville
Team member exiting in wake of family health issues.
Mike McVay Headed To Cumulus
Programming consultant Mike McVay has announced that he will head to Cumulus Media in Atlanta September 1, where he will become Sr. VP/Programming alongside Jan Jeffries. He will exit the consultancy he founded 28 years ago, which has grown to include divisions for syndication, new media, and Listener Driven Radio. The move should take place [...]
Weekly Chart Report (7/29/11)
Third time continues to be a charm for Lady Antebellum, whose “Just A Kiss” earns its third consecutive week at No. 1 on the CountryBreakout Chart.
Spins.FM Turns Dial Toward Nashville
Since last week (7/19), when MusicRow wrote about Spins.fm, an interactive tool designed to convert social networking fans into radio requests, there are rumblings that a few high profile country artists are set to take the technology for a “spin.” Spins.fm has created two widgets to help leverage an artist’s social networking success into FM [...]
CRS2012 Names Pittman Keynote Speaker
CRS 2012 will kick off Feb. 22-24 with keynote speaker and media legend, Bob Pittman, MTV Founder and currently Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms for Clear Channel. A 35-year industry veteran, Pittman’s keynote is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 9:30 a.m. in downtown Nashville. “Bob Pittman’s resume speaks for itself,” says CRS President [...]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Radio
Weekly Chart Update (7/22/11)
It’s a tight configuration at the top of the CountryBreakout Chart, with just over a hundred spins separating positions 1, 2, and 3. Lady Antebellum’s “Just A Kiss” emerges victorious for a second consecutive week, holding off Zac Brown Band’s “Knee Deep.”
Industry Ink Thursday (7/21)
Ashton Shepherd • CMT Radio • Artists Set For ICM Awards • Turntable.fm • Airplay Direct
Hirings At Quarterback, Gary Musick Productions
Gary Musick Productions announces the addition of Valerie Summers as Vice President of Sales and Customer Relations. Summers, who was previously an agent at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, brings with her 20 years of music industry experience. Valerie and her husband, Kip Summers, are co-owners of Arrington Vineyards where her husband is also the winemaker. [...]
Category: Featured, Radio, Sales/Marketing
Spins.FM Enables Radio Requests
Country music research, unlike data from some other musical formats continues to return a gaping disconnect between social networking, radio and sales success. Why?
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Radio, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
Musical Chairs at Cold River, Tenacity
Cold River Records and Tenacity Records are shuffling radio promotion staffers.
Montgomery Gentry – Where I Come From
Average Joe’s Entertainment is pleased to announce “Where I Come From,” the new country radio single from multi-platinum hitmaking duo Montgomery Gentry. The pair signed with Average Joe’s in March 2011 and are at work on their first album project with the label. “We couldn’t be happier to be signing with the guys at Average [...]
Category: ProgrammerPlaylist
Weekly Chart Report (7/15/11)
Following a record-setting heatwave in the South and many other parts of the country, it’s evident that summer is in full swing. That means a number things for all of us: vacations near water, painful sunburns, and of course, summer songs on country radio. Every year artists try their hand at recording and releasing a summer classic, but only a special few are fortunate enough to make it happen.
Industry Ink Thursday (7/14)
Republic Nashville hiring • TCN Moving • Kay Clary • Erik Logan • John Simson • ZMX Music
Category: Featured, Label, Organizations, Radio
