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WMG Teams Up With Audiomack

August 22, 2019 kevincarter Audiomack, Warner Music Group

• Warner Music Group (WMG) has entered a partnership with influential music streaming and discovery service, Audiomack, marking that platform’s

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What In The Sam Hill????

August 22, 2019 kevincarter Entercom, KALC, KQMT

• Those Entercom cutbacks just keep coming — and the latest casualty is a longtime friend of the RAMP family

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Houston Named PD of PRIDE Radio

August 22, 2019August 25, 2019 kevincarter iHeartMedia, PRIDE Radio

• iHeartMedia announced that Jerry Houston has been elevated to Program Director of HeartRadio’s PRIDE Radio, the Pulse of LGBTQ America, effective

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RCA Ups Al-Hamdouni To SVP/Digital

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 kevincarter RCA Records

• Tarek Al-Hamdouni has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Digital Marketing, for RCA Records. In making the announcement, John Fleckenstein, Co-President

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Elliot In The Morning Seeks Assoc. Producer

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 kevincarter iHeartMedia, WWDC

• iHeartMedia Alternative WWDC (DC101)/Washington has a very rare opening on the Elliot In The Morning show. “I’m looking for a new

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Juliano Unleashed @ Unleashed Music

August 21, 2019 kevincarter Unleashed Music

• Geordie Gillespie‘s promotion and marketing firm, Unleashed Music, has named radio and music industry pro Gina Juliano as VP of Integrated

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Apple Launches Shazam Discovery Top 50

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 kevincarter Apple Music, Shazam

• In a marked expansion of Shazam’s integration with Apple Music, Apple has debuted a new Shazam Discovery Top 50

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Apollo-Tegna Tango Continues

August 21, 2019 kevincarter Apollo Global, Tegna

• This is interesting — in an apparent (and corporately vague) response to last Friday’s Wall Street Journal story, Tegna released

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Taylor To Re-Record Her Catalog?

August 21, 2019August 22, 2019 kevincarter Taylor Swift

• While many industry experts are divided on the feasibility of such a plan, Taylor Swift says she intends to re-record her

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Greg Williams Earns Hall Of Fame Honors

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 kevincarter Entercom, KDGS

• We would like to join Entercom and the rest of the industry in congratulating Greg “The Hitman” Williams, longtime PD