eQB NOW In this week’s eQB Cover Story we talk to RCS President/CEO Philippe Generali about Mscore. What exactly is Mscore and why should you care about it? Generali gives our readers a closer look at this useful radio metric. In Programming To Win, Arbitron’s Jon Miller looks at ways to examine the bigger ratings picture in your market. Question of the Week asks: Which celebrity from any entertainment or sports field would you most want to co-host a radio show with and why? Plus Hot Shots and This Week in FMQB History. [more]
Clear Channel Announces Revenue Sharing Agreement With Big Machine Clear Channel Media and Entertainment and Big Machine Label Group strike a direct deal for performance royalties. [more]
Irving Azoff Weighs In On Clear Channel-Big Machine Deal Longtime artist manager Azoff says the royalty agreement announced yesterday could be a template for the music business going forward. [more]
Fitch Ratings Approves Of CC-Big Machine Deal Global credit ratings firm Fitch Ratings analyzes the royalty agreement between Clear Channel and Big Machine. [more]
Royalties, FM Chips Focus Of House Hearing On Future Of Audio As expected, the Clear Channel-Big Machine deal and FM chips in mobile devices were the hot topics at yesterday's subcommittee hearing. [more]
RIAA, Pandora, Smulyan Speak At House Subcommittee Hearing [more]
House Subcommittee Examining Radio Industry Issues [more]
Jim Ryan Adds PD Duties For WCBS/New York CBS Radio's VP of AC Programming/PD at Fresh 102.7/NY Ryan is named PD for Classic Hits WCBS. [more]
Neal Boortz To Retire, Herman Cain Named Successor [more]
Pandora Announces Increased Listening In May [more]
In Brief - June 4, 2012 Dan Mason to receive National Radio Award at NAB/RAB Radio Show, Louie Diaz is named PD at Hot AC KBFF/Portland, Robin Quivers returns to Stern following surgery [more]
In Brief - June 5, 2012 Kannon joins KLIF (i93)/Dallas for mornings, Mike Huckabee to keynote Conclave Learning Conference [more]
In Brief - June 7, 2012 Zann takes over nights at 92.3 NOW/New York, WFAN celebrates its 25th anniversary, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn nominated for a second term [more]