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CRS 2025 Luncheon Performers Announced

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CRS 2025 Luncheon Performers Announced

As Barrett Media’s “Countdown To CRS 2025” series has written about, music performances and label showcases are a significant part of the CRS DNA.

Three major Nashville record labels have announced the talent lineups for the luncheons they will host.

It kicks off Wednesday with Warner Music Nashville and a lineup that includes Gavin Adcock, Avery Anna, Sam Barber, Tyler Braden, Chase Matthew, Redferrin, and Hudson Westbrook.

Thursday, Universal Music Group (UMG) will host its annual luncheon at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. Taking the stage will be Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Crowe Boys, Jordan Davis, Eric Church, Carter Faith, Belle Frantz, Vince Gill, Tyler Hubbard, Bryce Leatherwood, Vincent Mason, Parker McCollum, Brad Paisley, Jon Pardi, Josh Ross, and Tucker Wetmore.

The Big Machine Label Group wraps up with the Friday lunch and Rascal Flatts, Riley Green, Jackson Dean, Mackenzie Carpenter, Preston Cooper, Chase McDaniel, Greylan James, Chris Janson, Caroline Jones, Shaylen, and Jack Wharff, and The Tobacco Flatts.

CRS 2025 is February 19-21 at the Omni Nashville Hotel in downtown Nashville. Online registration is closed, but walk-up registration is available at $799 starting February 19.

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Sale of WDAY Will Continue After Objection Made to FCC

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Sale of WDAY Will Continue After Objection Made to FCC

The sale of WDAY in Fargo, North Dakota will continue after an objection from a private citizen was made to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

A citizen had raised an issue with statements made by the incoming owner — Flag Family’s Scott Hennen — about the state of the news media. He had made a social media comment stating that “journalism is dead.” The concerned party raised questions about whether or not Hennen was fit to own a broadcast company.

However, the FCC ruled that Hennen was entitled to his opinion and that the comments were “not a ground for the FCC to deny or withhold consent to the instant assignment.”

“We reject the assertion that Hennen’s social media comments justify a denial of the proposed assignment applications,” the ruling from the FCC continued. “The Objection does not cite to any provision under the Act or the rules, any cases, or any Commission policy for its argument that Hennen’s social media comments are pertinent to our review of the Applications. We disagree with Wolff’s argument that Hennen’s viewpoint on the state of journalism, as expressed in his social media comments, is in any way relevant to our determination of BBM’s qualifications to hold a license or whether the proposed assignment would serve the public interest.

“As the Commission has stated, licensees have broad discretion based on their First Amendment right to free speech to choose, in good faith, the programming they believe serves the needs and interests of their communities. Indeed, the Commission does not interfere with the programming decisions of licensees, nor does it consider issues of programming choice when reviewing an application for the assignment or transfer of a broadcast license.”

A deal between Flag Family, which has operated the station since 2020 as part of a five-year agreement, and Forum Communications was announced last year. The purchase price for WDAY — North Dakota’s oldest radio station — was $600,000.

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99.9 Coyote Country Spokane’s Jay & Kevin Mark 30 Years Together As A Morning Team

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99.9 Coyote Country Spokane’s Jay & Kevin Mark 30 Years Together As A Morning Team

The Jay & Kevin morning show at Queen B Radio’s 99.9 Coyote Country KXLY, Spokane, recently celebrated 30 years together on air.

Jay Daniels and Kevin James initially teamed up at KDRK and joined KXLY in 2009. In addition to hosting mornings, Daniels serves as the station’s Program Director.

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown issued a proclamation making February 13 “Jay And Kevin Day.

In an interview with KXLY 4 News Now, Daniels said, “Nationwide, there’s probably only a handful of shows that have lasted as long as we have. And we know that we’re extremely fortunate.”

James added, “We used to get to do crazy stuff, and now, you get it halfway out of your mouth, and they’re like, ‘I don’t know how legal is going to feel about that idea.’”

Jay and Kevin are on 99.9 Coyote Country mornings from 6 – 9. Stream the show here.

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Shaquille O’Neal Agrees to Long-Term Deal with TNT Sports: Report

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Shaquille O’Neal Agrees to Long-Term Deal with TNT Sports: Report

As TNT Sports is in the midst of the final season of its media rights deal with the NBA, the sports division is planning for the future with a bevy of additional properties and digital capabilities surrounding the league. With the award-winning studio program Inside the NBA to be sublicensed to The Walt Disney Company and air on ESPN and ABC, the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary reportedly has a long-term deal in place with Shaquille O’Neal worth more than $15 million per year. Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports was the first to report the news surrounding O’Neal to remain on Inside the NBA as the show enters a new chapter.

O’Neal has been a member of Inside the NBA since 2011 after he retired from the league and has been working alongside host Ernie Johnson and analysts Kenny “The Jet” Smith and Charles Barkley. The Hall of Fame center was a four-time NBA champion throughout his career and also earned 15 NBA All-Star selections.

This agreement reported as being in place comes while NBC Sports and Amazon’s Prime Video continue to build out their talent rosters ahead of commencing 11-year media rights agreements with the league. The show is broadcasting from San Francisco, Calif. this weekend as it covers the NBA All-Star Game for the final time under the existing contract.

The remainder of the cast on Inside the NBA is expected to remain with TNT Sports, with the company announcing a long-term commitment with Barkley this past August. Despite reportedly receiving offers from the new rightsholders and ESPN, he has decided to remain with TNT Sports and is optimistic about the future of the show. Smith is also expected to ink a multiyear deal that would keep him with TNT Sports, while Johnson is perceived as someone who is “a TNT lifer.” The show will be produced from the Atlanta-based studio under the sublicensing agreement and contain the same production team as well.

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John Skipper: New NBA Media Rights Deal is More Important Than Regular-Season Ratings

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John Skipper: New NBA Media Rights Deal is More Important Than Regular-Season Ratings

As festivities surrounding NBA All-Star Weekend in San Francisco, Calif. take place this weekend, national viewership of games around the league this season are down 5% compared to the previous year. Even though February viewership is up by double digits from January and the league had a record-setting Christmas Day slate of games airing on ESPN platforms, the league has faced industry headwinds related to cable television and cord cutting. Ratings on TNT have fallen by 14% on the year, according to data from Nielsen Media Research, while those on ESPN and ABC are either close to or nearly flat from last season. Yet John Skipper, former president of ESPN and co-founder of Meadowlark Media, explained that these ratings diminutions do not necessarily equate in significance to the future of game broadcasts

The NBA recently announced 11-year media rights deals with The Walt Disney Company, Comcast and Amazon reportedly worth a total of $77 billion. Skipper was at the helm when ESPN signed its existing media rights deal with the league, which is said to be worth $1.4 billion per annum over nine years. The company is now preparing to pay a reported $2.62 billion per year for a package of games that includes prime time broadcasts, Christmas Day rights, select playoff contests and the NBA Finals.

“They are ascendant, and the deals they just did are much, much more important than whatever the regular-season ratings are,” Skipper said on the latest edition of The Sporting Class. “We’re back to people thinking the ratings are some dramatic indication of the health of the league.”

Even though Skipper acknowledges that NBA commissioner Adam Silver will need to answer questions surrounding the ratings, he does not feel that the fluctuation on particular days is that relevant. David Samson, former president of the Miami Marlins, opined that he believes what concerns the league is the state of the game and the product it is ultimately offering to its consumers and clients.

“The NBA, to me, has a game quality problem, and it also is trying to figure out who’s next after LeBron, and the whole LeBron going to Luka on the Lakers as sort of a small sample of what the NBA may look like going forward,” Samson said. “Is Luka the person they want? Is it an international player – is it Wemby? How are they going to navigate a world without LeBron the way they did without Jordan? It’s interesting.”

Pablo Torre surmised that the shocking trade of Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers could serve as an instructive module delineating the conspicuous strengths and weaknesses of the league. The three-team transaction, he explained, presumably led everybody to talk about what had happened as the lead-up to Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles was happening. Torre added that he felt the drama surrounding the NBA and level of cultural currency has not been reflected in actually watching the product and the games.

This led Skipper to compare the NBA to the NFL, pointing out the stark difference in the amount of playoff games and repeated consumption. Samson replied by reminding Skipper that he was someone at ESPN who was known for paying to augment the value of a specific package. Skipper confirmed that they would want as many rounds in the playoffs as possible since the postseason games were more valuable in accruing viewership as the championship approaches.

“It probably is more acute with the NBA, meaning that the playoff games drive a larger percentage of the value than the NFL postseason would, so yeah, we wanted to press, and the league has responded,” Skipper said. “They understand, and what Adam did, of course with the In-Season Tournament, is he needs to figure out, and Christmas Day and he’s experimenting this year with the All-Star format, he needs to figure out ways to make more of the huge quantity of games they play stand out in some way.”

Silver recently divulged that he would be a fan of shortening the game by eight minutes through instituting four 10-minute quarters. With NBA games running approximately two hours and 15 minutes this season, which is nearly consistent with the past 15 seasons, keeping the game to two hours for broadcast purposes is something that could benefit media partners. Skipper acknowledged that this is not a big problem for ESPN as much as it is for NBC since the network is trying to air local news programs on time as well.

“I would change the amount of timeouts and I would change what happens at the end of the game,” Skipper said. “They got to figure out a way – it’s worse in college basketball – you got to figure out a way that the last minute and 12 seconds doesn’t take 16 minutes to play.”

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Major Garrett Named Anchor of ‘America Decides’ on CBS News 24/7

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Major Garrett Named Anchor of ‘America Decides’ on CBS News 24/7

Major Garrett has been appointed to the role of anchor of America Decides, the afternoon newscast on the CBS News 24/7 streaming network.

Garrett has been a part of the show since its inception in May 2023. Previously, the show — based in Washington D.C. — had been hosted by a rotating group of anchors including Robert Costa, Nikole Killion, Caitlin Huey-Bruns, Scott MacFarlane, Weijia Jiang, and Nancy Cordes.

Major Garrett will continue to serve as the chief Washington correspondent for CBS News along with his new duties on the streaming show. He’ll work with Senior Executive Producer of Washington Streaming Coverage Allie Sandza to retool the daily program, the network said.

America Decides currently airs at 5 PM ET on CBS News 24/7 a Monday through Thursday basis. It also re-airs at 6 PM and 9 PM ET.

The news of Garrett taking over the daily political shows comes on the heels of the revelation that his long-running podcast — The Takeout with Major Garrett — was ending in its current form.

In the final published episode of the show, Garrett was vague on the details to conclude the January 24th episode of the weekly podcast.

“The Takeout, as we’ve come to know, it ends this week,” said Garrett. “This is our last show in this format. We’ve been doing this together for eight years, and it’s been the joy and privilege of my career to spend every week with you. When I open the show saying, ‘Welcome to the very best part of my broadcast week,’ I mean it. I mean it with every fiber of my being.

“Just know The Takeout is not dying. We have plans. I can’t share them fully with you right now … and I make you this promise: you won’t have to wait long to find out what comes next,” he concluded.

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Diana DeVille Joins Stonecom Radio Cookeville, TN As Cluster APD

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Diana DeVille Joins Stonecom Radio Cookeville, TN As Cluster APD

Diana DeVille, former PickleJar Up All Night Producer, has been named Assistant Program Director for Stonecom Radio’s eight stations in Cookeville, TN.

PickleJar Up All Night was canceled in December of last year (BMM 12/11). The show, based out of WKDF in Nashville, launched on 47 stations nationwide in 2022, airing from midnight to 5 a.m. local time.

DeVille previously was an overnight producer for Country 103.3 WKDF. Other stops include Country 99.1 The Ranch Simi Valley, CA, and KNAC.com, Los Angeles.

Stonecom operates Lite Rock 95.9, 106-9 Kicks Country, Rock 93-7, 96-9 Highway 111 Country, Sports Radio 104.7, News Talk 94.1/AM 1600, 93-3 The Dawg, and 101.9/AM 920 WLIV.

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CNN Adds Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator

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CNN Adds Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator

CNN has announced the addition of Rahm Emanuel as its new Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator.

Emanuel has plenty of experience in both foreign and domestic politics. He served as a Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Politics during the Clinton administration before representing Illinois’ 5th Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 2002 to 2008. He then became the White House Chief of Staff to President Obama before being elected Mayor of Chicago, where he served from 2011 to 2019.

Most recently, Rahm Emanuel worked as the United States Ambassador to Japan for the Biden administration.

According to a statement from CNN, Emanuel will “bring his extensive knowledge of American politics and international affairs to CNN’s on-air programming.”

The announcement of Emanuel’s hiring comes as CNN is in the midst of a strategic shift with a specialized focus on its digital products. Under the direction of CEO Mark Thompson, the company is realigning itself for the future.

Earlier this year, it slashed more than 200 jobs — roughly 6% of its workforce — in an effort to reallocate funds in preparation for its shift to digital. Despite the cuts, the network will fill 100 of those jobs in new sectors in the first half of 2025, Thompson revealed during the announcement of layoffs. Additionally, CNN is preparing to launch its own streaming service outside of the Max platform it has placed most of its content on in recent years.

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‘Throwback 100.3’ Chicago Collects 100,000 Valentines Cards For Kids

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‘Throwback 100.3’ Chicago Collects 100,000 Valentines Cards For Kids

Throwback 100.3 WTBC Chicago made the ask, and in a heartwarming display of community support, thousands of handmade Valentine’s Day cards were collected and delivered to La Rabida Children’s Hospital as part of the 9th annual Valentine’s Day Cards for Kids campaign.

Over the past nine years, Throwback 100.3 and its listeners have hand-crafted and donated over 100,000 cards.

“Each year, the Cards for Kids program brings our patients joy and encouragement. These thoughtful gestures remind them that they are not alone on their journey. We’re deeply grateful to Throwback 100.3 for their continued support and for helping us create moments of hope and connection for the children we serve,” said Rolla Sweis, President and CEO of La Rabida Children’s Hospital.

Chris Eagan, Throwback 100.3 Vice President of Brand and Content, says, “In my short time here, I’ve already been amazed by the incredible support our listeners show for programs like Cards for Kids. A heartfelt thank you to La Rabida Children’s Hospital for their ongoing dedication to this campaign.”

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Paramount Global, YouTube TV Reach ‘Short-Term Extension’

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Paramount Global, YouTube TV Reach ‘Short-Term Extension’

The availability of Paramount Global-owned television channels was imperiled this week with an impending carriage dispute with YouTube TV, but the two sides reached a “short-term extension” ahead of a Thursday deadline, later reported to be at 11 p.m. EST. As a result, users will still have access to several networks on the over-the-top video streaming service, some of which include CBS, Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon. There had been concern for sports fans surrounding upcoming events such as the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament and The Masters Tournament from Augusta National. On late Thursday night, YouTube TV announced the transaction in a social media post; however, the terms and duration of the agreement are currently unknown.

“We’ve reached a short-term extension as we work toward a deal with Paramount to keep their content on YouTube TV,” the company said in a statement. “YouTube TV subscribers continue to have access to Paramount channels, including CBS, and any recordings that are in their Library. We appreciate your patience as we continued to negotiate on your behalf. We also value Paramount’s partnership and willingness to work towards an agreement.”

The disagreement resulted in both companies releasing statements explaining their perspective on the situation earlier in the week. A spokesperson for Paramount stated prior to the companies reaching the short-term extension that YouTube TV had been pressuring the company to acquiesce towards “one-sided terms.” YouTube TV had explained that it was in active conversations with the company and hopeful that it would be able to reach an agreement. Moreover, the streaming provider offered an $8 credit to its subscribers should the Paramount Global content remain unavailable for an extended period of time.

YouTube TV, which is owned by parent company Alphabet, recently unveiled a price hike through which it raised the cost of its service by 14% to $82.99 per month. The streaming service recently surpassed 8 million subscribers and also serves as the home of NFL Sunday Ticket under a reported seven-year, $14 billion media rights deal.

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