Radio station segment helps rescue animals
A Lake Geneva radio station is using an on-air segment to find new home for animals at a no-kill animal shelter. The on-air feature titled “Wet Nosed Wednesday” airs weekly on WLKG. The manager of Lakeland Animal Shelter visits ‘Curt…
Training will help with sales recruitment
The WBA is working with Media Staffing Network to provide member stations with a new program, Local Sales Recruitment. The program will help bring you the best and brightest sellers. We’ve heard you: it’s difficult to find and keep sellers. Since 1993, Media Staffing…
More than 20,000 toys donated in radio station drive
An annual toy drive held by a Milwaukee radio station collected more than 20,000 toys for kids during the holidays. WTMJ ran the Kids 2 Kids Christmas Toy Drive as a grassroots program that allows people in the community the…
Podcast explores technology and broadcasting
A podcast produced by Jacobs Media highlights what they found for broadcasters while visiting CES in Las Vegas. CES is North America’s largest trade show, with over 3,800 exhibitors and 170,000 attendees. Every year, companies debut new technological innovations here….
FCC Commission makes changes to public inspection file requirements
From Scott R. Flick at Pillsbury: At the first public meeting of the Pai FCC, the Commission today voted to eliminate the requirement that Letters and Emails from the Public be retained by stations in their public file. This clears the…
Successful Winter Conference
Thank you to everyone who attended the Winter Conference this week! We hope you got a lot out of the event. Please let us know what you thought as we’re already planning the summer conference scheduled for June 14-15 in…
Ajit Pai named new FCC chairman
President Donald Trump has picked a fierce critic of the Obama-era “net neutrality” rules to be chief regulator of the nation’s airwaves and internet connections. Monday afternoon, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai announced that Trump has selected him to succeed Tom Wheeler and…
TV station helps collect toys for 13,950 children
A television station in Madison was part of a holiday effort to collect toys for children ahead of the 2016 holiday season that gathered toys for 13,950 kids in Dane County. WKOW has sponsored Toys for Tots for 28 years….
Station supports effort to get thousands of coats for kids
A television station in Green Bay helped collect thousands of coats to keep kids warm in northeast Wisconsin this winter. WBAY-TV 2 was a media partner of the Coats for Kids campaign. “Many local families have hard decisions to make…
