February 2, 2010


» Grow Your Ray To Better Billings: Former KNIX/Phoenix PD Ray Massie has been named PD of Gap West's Billings, MT Country-Classic Rock combo KCTR & KMHK. He started yesterday and succeeds Mark Hill (CA Weekly 2/1) as KCTR's PD; KMHK had been without a PD for the past three months. In addition to his Billings duties, Massie will also do some consulting work with Albright & O'Malley's Jaye Albright, who consults KCTR. Massie can be reached here.
 

» Reilly Departs: Clear Channel's WMAD/Madison PD Jon Reilly has resigned after more than six years with the cluster, where he also programmed Top 40 WZEE. Reilly assumed WMAD's programming when the station flipped Country in December 2004. He can be reached at 608-575-9850 or here. OM Mike Ferris is programming both stations on an interim basis while a replacement is sought; resumes here.

 

 



» Market Fluctuation: Clear Channel/Melbourne, FL Market Manager Scott Pritchett is relocating to the company's six-station Columbia, SC cluster to serve in the same capacity. His purview will include Country WCOS. Pritchett replaces Tom Bustard, who left the company in November. Reach Pritchett here.
 

» Ferris In The Land: Promotion vet Dawn Ferris will join Broken Bow as Mgr./Midwest Promotion Monday (2/8). She replaces Bill Heltemes, who joined Golden Music/Nashville for the same region last month (CAT 1/20). Ferris has spent the last year-and-a-half as a stay-at-home mom and previously worked the Midwest for Arista/Nashville and Equity. She will remain based in Dallas and can be reached at 214-924-1020 or here.
 

» A Whole New World: The Zac Brown Band, Julianne Hough and Sugarland were among the singers and celebrities at yesterday's (2/1) Los Angeles recording session for a reprise of "We Are The World." The new cut will benefit Haitian relief efforts. Wyclef Jean, Celine Dion, Tony Bennett, Kanye West, Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges and Vince Vaughn also participated. "It's like standing in the classic records section at the Turtles music store looking at all the covers," Brown told the LA Times. "It's ridiculous, and it's wonderful and for a good cause." According to Reuters, none of the artists in the original 1985 song were asked to participate in yesterday's project, which was reportedly filmed in 3-D.
 

» Finding Their Voice: Nearly one in six U.S. radio station GMs were women in 2009, according to the latest Gender Analysis Study by the Mentoring and Inspiring Women In Radio Group (MIW). The 16.2% figure is up slightly from 15.8% in '08 and from 14.9% in 2004. However, women program only 11.1% of all stations, compared to 10.7% five years ago. Women were sales managers in 30.5% of all stations, which was similar to 2008. Details here.
 



» Winter Takes All: Punxsutawney Phil may have given us six more weeks of winter, but you only have three days left to cast your final votes for the 2010 CRB-Country Aircheck Awards. Choose the industry's best in 28 radio and record categories at CRBAwards.com before end of business Friday (2/5). Winners will be announced during CRS 2010's New Faces Show Feb. 26 at the Nashville Convention Center.
 

» That Nashville Side: Texas radio promotion firm SunFire Entertainment will relocate from Austin to Nashville March 1. The company's clients have included Jack Ingram, Granger Smith and Josh Abbot Band. SunFire's new address will be 909 18th Ave. South, Nashville, TN 37212, and founder Angela-Marie Lampton can still be reached at 210-373-2451 or here.
 

» iPhone Update: Former Leadership Music Exec. Dir. Kira Florita can now be reached at 615-438-7545, via email here or on LinkedIn here.   
 

» Crib Note: Congrats to WUSN/Chicago PM driver Drew Walker on the birth of his daughter Vivian, who made her debut Jan. 21.
 

» Country Aircheck Today Top 5: Here are the Top 5 songs for Feb. 1:
  1. JASON ALDEAN/The Truth (BBR) 2188 points
  2. BRAD PAISLEY/American Saturday Night (Arista) 2176 points
  3. DARIUS RUCKER/History In The Making (Capitol) 2087 points
  4. JOSH TURNER/Why Don't We Just Dance (MCA) 2079 points
  5. MIRANDA LAMBERT/White Liar (Columbia) 2043 points

All daily airplay data is from Mediabase 24/7.

 

» Country Aircheck Today Top 5 Downloads: Here are Play MPE's Top 5 for Feb. 1:
  1. JIMMY WAYNE f/WHITNEY DUNCAN/Just Knowing You Love Me (Valory)
  2. GEORGE STRAIT/I Gotta Get To You (MCA)
  3. TIM MCGRAW/Still (Curb)
  4. REBA/I Keep On Loving You (Starstruck/Valory)
  5. LUKE BRYAN/Rain Is A Good Thing (Capitol)
 

» Tomorrow's Birthdays (2/3): Matraca Berg, Jessica Harp, Lane Turner, Tim Riley.
 

» Tube Check Tonight (2/2): Lady Antebellum, Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC).

Tube Check Tomorrow (2/3): Trisha Yearwood, CMT Cribs (re-air).

 



» Lady's & Gentleman: CMT Radio Live host Cody Alan (second from l) celebrates the show's one-year anniversary with Lady Antebellum's (l-r) Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood.
 

» Check Yes Or Know: KOUL/Corpus Christi, TX (l-r) OM/PD/morning host Clayton Allen, PM driver Don Williams, morning co-host Megan McClain and GM Juan Montenegro pose with the fruits of the station's St. Jude radiothon last week.
 

» Brother's Brim: Lyric Street's Tyler Dickerson meets WUSY/Chattanooga, TN staffers during a radio tour stop. Pictured (l-r) are LS Sr. Dir./Nat'l Promotion John Ettinger, APD/MD/PM driver Bill "Dex" Poindexter, afternoon co-host Melissa "Mo" Turner, Dickerson, OM Jay Cruze and LS VP/Nat'l Promotion Kevin Herring.
 




 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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