Great Moments In Syndication
• United Stations Radio Networks, Inc. announced a partnership with long-running, successful shows: The House of Hair and The Daily House Of Hair Cut, created by Pam Edwards and Bernadette Productions, LLC, and hosted by rock legend, Dee Snider. Bernadette Productions will handle affiliate relations while USRN handles all ad sales, affiliate compliance and other back-office functions for the shows. This announcement also marks a return of these programs to their longtime network home.
Reacting to this news, USRN EVP of Programming Andy Denemark commented, “We are thrilled to reunite with Pam and Dee and the whole House of Hair team. They’ve developed one of the great brands in network radio and we’re excited to bring these programs back into our family and bring their loyal audiences back to our marketing partners and sponsors.” Pam Edwards added, “I’m so happy to come back home! The team at United Stations intimately understands our programming and we could not be in better hands.”
The House of Hair is in its 20th year and has 200 affiliates in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The show debuted as a two-hour weekly offering to rock radio stations in 1997, and expanded to three hours in 2009. The brand also expanded into weekday features with the introduction of a short-form vignette, The Daily House of Hair Cut in 2007.
• Benztown announced that Remote News Service (RNS) has signed the Maryland News Network, “The Voice of Maryland,” to deliver news content to 14 stations in Frederick, Myersville and Salisbury. This group deal now brings RNS’ professional news content to a total of 62 stations across the U.S.
RNS offers high quality, hyper-localized news content to radio stations in markets of all sizes and formats on a cash and barter basis through Benztown. Lesley Lotto, President of Remote News Service, said, “I’m thrilled to work with a fledgling network that Remote News Service will have a chance to watch grow and grow with. I see great things for the Maryland News Network!” For more information and to get Remote News Service for your stations for cash or barter, visit benztown.com/remotenewsservice or contact Masa Patterson at 818-842-4600 or mp@benztown.com.
