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How Can New Music Compete With Classic Rock? Here Fred Jacobs explores the challenge of breaking through classic rock’s stranglehold on radio, and how to give new music a fighting chance at competing for space on the airwaves. Guest post by How can new music compete against Classic Rock?  That is the question, as ironic as it may sound. Nearly four decades ago when I was trying to just get ambitious broadcasters to take a risk on an all-gold radio format on the FM band, featuring the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the Eagles, I never could have dreamed anyone could possibly ask that question.

Follow us Get news via Twitter Become a fan Join us on Facebook Subscribe Net News via RSS CES Wednesday: Radio Takes A Tour; Entertainment Marketers Talk Pandemic January 13, 2021 at 12:24 PM (PT) A Three (Plus)-Hour Tour By PERRY MICHAEL SIMON in LOS ANGELES: For radio people, the annual JACOBS MEDIA tour was the main attraction on WEDNESDAY's schedule at the virtual 2021 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES), even if there wasn't an actual in-person convention to tour. FRED JACOBS took radio executives on an over three-hour tour around the virtual convention, with AMAZON,...

Labour councillor's 'real' mother was a 9ft green alien Other people believe equally unlikely things, says Simon Parkes. And anyway, aliens know more about Whitby's needs than Scarborough council does Whitby harbour. If I was an alien, I'd land here. Dracula did too, remember. It's a numinous place. Whitby harbour. If I was an alien, I'd land here. Dracula did too, remember. It's a numinous place. Tue 27 Mar 2012 07.48 EDT It's fair to say about the Labour leadership, as our own Ed Jacobs has just done, that they're taking time to enthuse the UK public with their proposals and personalities...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. BrightView Acquires Commercial Landscape Firm Cutting Edge Property Maintenance, Inc. January 8, 2021 GMT BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 8, 2021-- BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BV) (“BrightView”), the leading commercial landscaping services company in the United States, today announced the acquisition of Cutting Edge Property Maintenance, Inc. based in Plymouth, Minn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Cutting Edge has earned a reputation for providing superior service, whic...

Few working in media had the kind of quiet impact that Dick Kernen did during his lengthy career. Especially in his role as placement director and chief ambassador of the Specs Howard School of Media Arts in Southfield, Kernen — who passed away Friday, Dec. 18, at age 82, from natural causes — was behind, without exaggeration, thousands of careers in the radio, television and communications industry. Much-loved and well-respected, Kernen was known as "Uncle Dick" around the school and valued for his advice, advocacy and insight — and for an endless array of stories about alumni...