Radio World NewsBytes: BBG Cuts Shortwave; New Techie at NAB; Posers or Pros?
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Top Stories - 07.01.14
VOA/RFA/RFL Make Shortwave Cuts Congress has approved cuts in shortwave transmission sought by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Check out the list.
Are Your People Posers or Professionals? Mark Lapidus asks the question of radio sales managers. Perhaps your poor sales aren't wholly the fault of a "bad" economy. Do your sales people know how to sell? Do they know the technology? Are they keeping up with practices?
Radio Station Cuts Hurt, Even at This Office (Seaway News) It might be Cornwall, Ontario in Canada but the story is the same — Corus Entertainment is closing the news operation of CJSS(FM). The company says station economics won't support the personnel.
Georgia State Pursuing Daytime Options for WRAS (GSU) In an attempt to mollify critics of the school's deal to hand over daytime radio programming to Georgia Public Broadcasting, the school says it is exploring options such as a translator to air student-run programming.
KGY(AM) 1240 Sold to Catholic Broadcaster (The Olympian) On the lovely Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, family-owned KGY(AM) is being sold to Seattle-based Sacred Heart Radio to extend that broadcaster's footprint. KGY's FM sisters, KGY(FM) and KAYO(FM), will remain with the family-owned local company.