Kristen Williams has been with Warner Music Nashville for 16 years, beginning as Manager of Secondary Promotion and working her way up through the ranks until she was promoted to Senior VP/Radio & Streaming in 2016 when the company merged its radio promotion and ...

It's challenge for an independent radio sales and marketing company to succeed these days when you're going up against some well-established corporate powers. Yet Gen Media Partners brought together the operations of McGavren Guild Media, Local Focus Radio, HRN Media ...

The stretch run of the political season is slightly less than a full year away, yet Talk radio is already chock full of overheated, high-decibel partisanship - and truth be told, it's been pretty much that way for years. Envision Networks Pres./CEO Danno Wolkoff has ...

It's never easy for an Urban station. Today, many of their artists - especially in Hip-Hop - are the streaming leaders, producing the most popular music on the air. At the same time, Top 40s are playing more of these artists more often. Good thing for the artists, of ...

If there's any anchor that has brought down the consumers' perception of radio over the years, it's the all-too-common complaint of "too many commercials," as lengthy stop sets prompt scores of listeners to tune out. Clip Interactive believes it has a solution that ...

Comedy is an integral part of almost every radio morning show, be it phone gags, show prep bits, the "wacky co-hosts" or interviews with stand-up comics. Brian Volk-Weiss has made a successful career out of managing and/or producing stand-up comics, many of whom have ...

In its never-ending effort to generate more revenue beyond the spot business, radio has ventured into the concert business as well as digital platforms and podcasting. Another promising avenue for potential revenue is livestreaming - and few in this industry have more ...

Tropical Storm Barry hit shore last weekend, sparing New Orleans but drenching Southern states surrounding the Mississippi River. But that was just an appetizer for what promises to be another tumultuous hurricane season. Few people personally know better how to ...

In a politically polarized environment, Talk radio never seems to run out of having something to argue or complain about. But as Cumulus Media VP/NewsTalk Bill Hess notes, there's a lot more to achieving success in the format than knowing your talking points. Here, he ...