This Week in
Small Market Radio
 SMALL
MARKET LEADER SUFFERS SUSPICIOUS TOWER COLLAPSE.
Art Sutton’s Lavonia, GA radio station, WLHR, saw
its tower fall last weekend, a likely act of
vandalism. Sutton is quoted on the station’s website
(www.921wlhr.com)
as saying, "We believe one of the guy-wire sections
was deliberately cut, which resulted in the tower
falling completely over."
Read the full story in this week's issue.
SURVEY SEZ: ONLINE LISTENING TO
GROW. Based on a survey of
over 3,000 Internet streaming listeners, Bridge
Ratings projects growth in online simulcasts of
local radio stations, as well as Internet-only
players. Currently local-radio streams generate
around 2.5 hours of listening, while Internet-only
streamers rack up a little under 1.5 hours. Bridge
estimates that in four years online listening will
increase to over 2.75 hours and 1.55 hours,
respectively. Read the full
story in this week's issue.
 NAB
SHOW I: FCC COMMISSIONERS TO HIT VEGAS.
Michael Copps, Mignon Clyburn and Meredith Attwell
Baker will be featured speakers at "The Washington
Face-Off," a session to be presented during the 2010
NAB Show. The commissioners will talk about spectrum
management, media ownership and developments in
digital media.
TOO BIG TO FAIL.
Next year’s FCC budget will be north of $252
million, if President Obama has his way. In addition
to mandatory salary and benefits increases and
contractors’ inflationary increases, the money would
be used for things like implementing the national
broadband plan, a spectrum-inventory initiative and
work on emergency-response interoperability;
improving consumer information programs, "seizing
the opportunities provided by new media and advanced
information technology"; and staff and technology to
overhaul the FCC’s "antiquated" data and processing
systems.
 NAB
SHOW II: PHIL HENDRIE, LUNCHEON KEYNOTER.
The syndicated radio personality and voice artist
will be the featured speaker at the NAB Radio
Luncheon during the big show in Las Vegas. NAB
Executive VP/Radio John David noted, "Throughout his
career, Phil Hendrie has never lost his passion for
radio. We look forward to what he has in store for
us during this year’s NAB Show Radio Luncheon."
NEW NAB.ORG DEBUTS.
Better navigation, integrated "issue pages," and
more multimedia resources distinguish the revamped
NAB website
www.nab.org,
as well as the NAB Education Foundation’s
www.nabef.org.
Highlights: legislative and regulatory issues are
accessible from the main menu. . .the newsroom has
multimedia resources, high-resolution photos and an
improved search function. . .an RSS feed for
releases and legal filings. . .and password access
for NAB dues-payers to exclusive member-only
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