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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015 Washington thinks it’s time for an EAS modernization. National tests of the Emergency Alert System would be mandated every three years under a bill currently making its way through the Senate. It’s part of an effort to modernize the public warning infrastructure. “In times of an emergency, information is crucial,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) says. “This bill takes important steps to expand our nation’s public warning system to ensure the largest number of people is reached.” Johnson drafted the bill with Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and that bipartisan alliance quickly got the proposed Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) Modernization Act passed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee. The bill requires the FCC and FEMA to fine-tune the alerting system on the basis of geographic location and risk, and to make sure EAS works across as many devices as possible. And while it doesn’t specifically require radio or TV stations to transmit messages in languages other than English, it would require the agencies to come up with a way that ensures people with limited proficiency with the language understand the message. The same requirement applies to reaching the disabled. There would also be a new push to make sure rural areas are covered. As for the three-year national testing cycle, the bill says that is to ensure EAS “is resilient and secure and can withstand acts of terrorism and other external attacks.” Other proposed changes could be coming. Under the bill aiming to modernize the Emergency Alert System, the FCC would issue annual reports on how EAS is performing, while FEMA would establish a three-year task force to develop recommendations for additional improvements. The bill would give commercial and public broadcasters a seat at that table. It would also include state and local governments, representatives from the emergency management community, equipment vendors, the cable and satellite television industry, disabled groups, and those who represent the non-English speaking community. Johnson says it would work to ensure “effective training and collaboration so that when an emergency hits, we are ready.” Broadcasters have long held their role in EAS as sacred and while the legislation could put new requirements on stations, the National Association of Broadcasters is embracing the effort. “Radio and television broadcasters play a crucial role as ‘first informers,’ providing local communities with up-to-the-second information when disaster strikes,” EVP Dennis Wharton says. NAB is also pledging to help the bill’s sponsors to bring other lawmakers on board. Rear Admiral (ret.) David Simpson, chief of the FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, told Inside Radio last month he doubts the planned 2015 national EAS test will occur this year. With several issues still being considered by the Commission, Simpson said he thinks holding off makes sense. “I just don’t think we’d give the broadcasters enough time to get ready so I think more realistically the 2016 timeframe would be what we’re looking at,” he said. The commissioners are currently reviewing the test outline and until they green-light the proposal laid out by the Bureau, no date will be set.

Sports-loving Bilingual Hispanics are ESPN’s best friends. Nearly 80% of Hispanics in the U.S. live in households where English and Spanish are both spoken with many going back and forth between the two languages. For ESPN, those bilingual Hispanics are highly valued because they consume more of the company’s content on more platforms, including radio. When it comes to video, 41% of ESPN’s 20 million Hispanic users switch between ESPN and ESPN Deportes. Bilinguals, who enjoy both international and American sports, are ESPN’s heaviest Hispanic users, representing 52% of usage. But there’s less back and forth between the two languages within the company’s audio platforms. “To listen to sports talk radio, you need to be really proficient in the language,” ESPN associate director of Hispanic research Heather Coghill said during a press conference yesterday. “There isn’t the added benefit of seeing pictures and video to help follow along.” ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes represent what she calls “different, unique, incremental audiences.” Radio is benefitting from the growth

[email protected] | 800.275.2840 PG 1 NEWS insideradio.com THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015 of mobile access among Hispanics. The average Hispanic spends 90 hours a month online with three-fourths occurring on a mobile device and most of it via apps. That’s helped grow listening to ESPN Deportes live streams and podcasts. Advertisers using a mix of platforms and languages received the biggest bang for their marketing bucks, ESPN research shows. A campaign or sponsorship seen in English on ESPN TV and heard in Spanish on ESPN Deportes Radio produced better results than ones that used a single platform or language. “We feel that total market campaigns are most effective and that’s true for audio, too,” Coghill said.

Meet America’s Biggest Sports Fans. Which city has the biggest sports fans is a fiercely debated question. But answering it for population segments is much easier. Bilingual Hispanics take the trophy, hands down. At 87%, the amount of Hispanic and general population sports fans is equal. The number of Hispanics who describe themselves as avid sports fans (34%) is only slightly higher than the total population (31%). But the number jumps to 40% among Hispanics who speak Spanish and English. Because of their dual acculturation, bilingual Hispanics avidly follow more different sports (4.4) than Hispanics overall (3.6) and non-Hispanics (3.1). “They’re fans of the international sports they grew up watching with their dads, uncles and grandfathers like soccer and boxing but they’re also influenced by their peers in the U.S.” ESPN associate director of Hispanic research Heather Coghill said during a press conference yesterday. Unsurprisingly, soccer is the most viewed sport among Hispanics, capturing nearly one third of all their sports viewing time. But the NFL (14.4%), NBA (5.7%) and MLB (3.4%) also have big Hispanic audiences. Break it out by language and there’s a different story. Viewing to NFL, NBA and college sports is sharply lower among Spanish-dominant Hispanics, while soccer, boxing and wrestling score higher. Half of all their sports viewing was for soccer in 2014, no doubt influenced by the World Cup. The NFL was a distant second at 4.3%. Hispanics who speak only or mostly English don’t look much different from the general population. Bilinguals, on the other hand, still spend about a third of their time with soccer but also watch the NFL, NBA and MLB.

Q2 read: ‘an emphatic okay.’ Better, but it’s not “gangbusters.” That’s the no-spin assessment of second quarter business from Salem Media Group CEO Ed Atsinger. It’s why he says his company has been so focused on cutting costs this year. “With the radio industry pacing continuing to be soft, we’ve had to take a hard look at our expenses and put in place a number of cost-savings to try to increase our overall efficiency,” Atsinger told analysts on a conference call. He said the company eliminated “a number of positions” during March, from the executive ranks right down through the radio and digital operations. “It will continue to be a focus for us throughout the year,” Atsinger said. Radio president Dave Santrella said his view on Q2 is “an emphatic okay” after a flattish April sprouted some improved sales in May, with June on track to be the best month of the quarter. The movie ad category has picked up a bit, he said, and with better weather comes more events. There’s also the return of a key Salem Radio Networks talk talent, Michael Medved, who stepped away from his show to fight throat cancer. “We’re seeing some advertisers that went away when Michael had a prolonged illness and they’re starting to come back,” Santrella said. And yet despite all of those positive indicators, there’s no cause for celebration just yet. “It remains pretty tepid,” Santrella told analysts.

Salem by the numbers. For the second quarter Salem is projecting revenue to decrease 2% to 4% blaming a loss of political revenue for part of the decline. That follows Q1 when revenue slipped 0.5% in radio and 0.8% for the company overall. “In a nonpolitical year, we’re pretty pleased with that result,” CEO Ed Atsinger said yesterday, calling it “another challenging quarter

[email protected] | 800.275.2840 PG 2 NEWS insideradio.com THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015 for the radio industry.” Salem Radio Network revenue fell 9%, and only its contemporary Christian (+4%) and news-talk (+2%) formatted stations posted growth in the quarter. But Atsinger also noted block programming sales gained ground and NTR billing soared 21%.

Survey uncovers consumer desire for customizable content from AM/FM radio. Radio stations are masters at promotion, and new survey data from Bridge Ratings suggests more time to promote their apps may be in order. Bridge found that just 14% of the people it surveyed reported having a station app on their smartphone. And among those who did download one, just a third said they used it. What would get listeners to use a station app more often? Bridge says 41% of those surveyed said they’d probably tap the app more often if it offered custom content specific to them that they select. And 34% said they’d listen to a personalized, customizable internet radio station from their favorite AM/FM station. While streaming on the phone means royalty costs for stations that over-the-air broadcasts aren’t subject to, Americans have a taste for mobile music. Bridge’s survey found that an overwhelming 87% prefer to listen to streaming radio on their phone compared to on a desktop. The findings are based on a sample of 3,200 people aged 10 and older.

Snapchat inks sports-focused deal with Learfield. With college sports play-by-play the backbone of Learfield Sports, the company may know more about the media habits of Millennials than just about any other broadcaster. That’s led Learfield to announce a partnership with Snapchat, the mobile photo and video sharing app. It will use its Live Stories feature to allow all the Snapchat users at the same event to weave their personal pictures and videos into a single collective story. Learfield SVP/chief content officer Joe Ferreira says it will help their college affiliates connect with millions of hard-to-reach Millennials. “Live Stories deliver a sense of community and excitement in a timely manner, a feeling no other medium can emulate,” he says. Last month Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel said his company is working with iHeartMedia to link the app to its music- based live events. “Radio is all about live mobile entertainment so we feel like kindred spirits,” he said, promising “cool and exciting things” are in the works.

Pilot program may determine how stations fly drones. Some radio stations have begun equipping themselves with drones for potential news, programming and promotional use. Current Federal Aviation Administration rules prohibit the commercial use of drones, but the agency has launched a pilot program to help develop guidelines. Among the three companies it’s working with is a media operation, CNN, which regulators say will help the FAA determine how unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can be used safely for newsgathering in populated areas. It will also work with the agriculture and railroad industries, which are also hoping to put drones to commercial use. “This is a big job, and we’ll get to our goal of safe, widespread UAS integration more quickly by leveraging the resources and expertise of the industry,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says. The FAA is also continuing a rulemaking proceeding, which in recent months collected nearly 4,500 comments, including submissions from the 22 media organizations that comprise the News Media Coalition. The agency is now working though a number of issues raised as it crafts a drone rulebook that a growing number of stations are waiting for.

Bill to create a radio royalty adds cosponsors. Proponents of a performance royalty on radio stations have added eight cosponsors to the proposed Fair Play Fair Pay Act. It would, among other things, require FM/AM stations to pay royalties on airplay. Sponsor Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has added eight co-sponsors, many from the music industry strongholds of Tennessee and California, including some who’ve been fighting for a radio royalty for years. The list includes Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), John Conyers (D-MI), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Alan Grayson (D-FL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Adam Schiff (D-CA). Music creators could not have better friends,” musicFirst Coalition director Ted Kalo says in statement. In addition, the Folk Alliance International announced its support for the bill. The Alliance includes radio personalities and programmers among its members. Broadcasters fighting the bill have their supporters too, with 177 House members now on record opposing a performance royalty. That’s still short of the 218 needed to block legislation from getting passed, although as a purely numbers game it would put royalty opponents in the lead in the Capitol Hill headcount.

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USC looks to expand its classical format into another California market. The Pataphysical Broadcasting Foundation has given tentative approval to sell news-talk/variety KUSP, Santa Cruz, CA (88.9) to the University of Southern California for a reported $1 million. USC’s classical outlet KUSC, Los Angeles (91.5) has expanded its footprint in recent years, stretching its programming to stations in San Francisco, Palm Springs, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports the sale will allow KUSP to avoid a looming bankruptcy as it faces $715,000 in debt and an annual loss of $200,000. The Foundation’s board will now begin more formal negotiations with USC. The Sentinel says KCRW, Los Angeles (89.9) parent Santa Monica College has also expressed interest in KUSP. So has Cal State’s KAZU (90.3) in Monterey Bay. Station managers say KUSP is so cash-strapped it’s unlikely to continue operations into the annual fall membership drive. Inside Radio News Ticker…Fire silences Salt Lake station…Snow and ice issues have melted away at the FCC and now Cumulus Media is the first to blame a brush fire for silencing a station. The tower for Salt Lake City’s KJQS (1230) collapsed after a brush fire damaged the guy insulators. Cumulus tells the FCC it’s currently talking with tower companies and local building officers to erect a new tower. KJQS had been simulcasting sports sister “1320 K-Fan” KFNZ…New York intern settles suit…Yet another intern suit ends in a settlement. Ex-intern Liane Arias has reached an agreement in principle to settle a lawsuit she brought against iHeartMedia claiming she should have been paid for her five months of service. Arias, who also goes by the name Stephanie Perez, says her work included gathering data on upcoming community events and working with station street teams. IHeartMedia denied it violated federal and state labor laws when assigning duties to Arias. This and other cases may have a wider impact on unpaid internships in radio. What has long been a pretty standard practice at stations could run up against the Fair Labor Standards Act. It says if an employer would have hired additional staff or made regular employees work longer hours to get the job done, then interns will be viewed as employees and are entitled to compensation…Pandora wins another round in court…A federal appeals court in New York has handed Pandora another victory in its ongoing legal effort to pay less to songwriters. ASCAP has been trying to win higher streaming rates for the period between 2013 and 2015. But the court upheld two lower court rulings saying the consent decrees covering how ASCAP rates are set are “unambiguous” and they prevent songwriters from sidestepping the courts and negotiating higher royalty rates on their own. If it stands, Pandora could save more than $15 million in licensing fees…Keillor hits road for summer…It’s not just commercial stations that are embracing live events this summer. Public radio fixture Garrison Keillor has announced he will take “A Prairie Home Companion” on the road to 30 cities in July and August. The America the Beautiful Tour will, for the most part, avoids the big cities for markets like Charlottesville, VA and Aspen, CO. “Prairie Home” airs on more than 600 stations...People Moves…Stephanie Saporita promoted to GSM at CBS Radio in San Francisco. Country “107.9 Nash Icon” WOGT, Chattanooga hires Reid Thrush as its new program director. And syndicated morning host Doug Stephan hires Molly Paige as his new co-host and news anchor on “Good Day.” Read People Moves at InsideRadio.com. A ‘people’s choice’ approach to air talent recruitment. Tomorrow’s air talent can come from almost anywhere, from social media to the comedy circuit to a local high school. Academia won out for CBS Radio sports “The Fan” WFAN (660, 101.9), New York as its fifth Fantasy Phenom competition awarded a weekly two-hour show to a 35-year-old special education and social studies teacher from Totowa, N.J. VP of sports programming and WFAN program director Mark Chernoff described the competition as a “People’s Choice” contest with online voting and a live crowd at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square. Air personalities Tiki Barber, Kim Jones and John Jastremski also factored into the decision- making. Borrowing a page from NBC’s “The Voice,” the competition paired each of six finalists with a mentor from the station’s airstaff. Winner Patrick McGlynn came from Team Carton, headed by morning co-host Craig Carton. A lifelong Mets fan, McGlynn was one of 200 contestants who advanced from the first round tryouts to the finals — a live broadcast from the Hard Rock Cafe. He also received a scholarship to the Connecticut School of Broadcasting. That he’s now heard on the station Saturdays from 1 to 3 am apparently hasn’t dampened his enthusiasm. “I am still in shock that I won,” McGlynn told the Newark Star Ledger. “Winning the contest and having my own show on WFAN, it’s a dream come true.”

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Richmond, VA — Educational Media Foundation files a $1.25 million deal to buy contemporary Christian WAUQ (89.7) from American Family Association. WAUQ will begin airing the “K-Love” network. EMF already owns “K-Love” station WKYV in the Richmond market. Seattle — Iglesia Pentecostal Visperia Del Fin files to buy KBRO (1490), KLDY (1280) and KNTB (1480) from David Drucker’s Seattle Streaming Radio for $600,000. All three stations are currently off the air. Iglesia will buy airtime on the station in May for $13,500 and it will pay all costs for the station while the application is pending at the FCC which will be credited toward the sale price. South Dakota — Real Presence Radio files a $200,000 deal to buy religious KQFR, Rapid City, SD (89.9) from Family Stations. This is the first South Dakota station for the Steve Loegering-led Real Presence Radio, which also owns station in North Dakota and Minnesota. Separately, Family Stations has a pending deal to sell the related Gillette, WY-licensed translator K294BD at 106.7 FM to Legend Communications for $35,000. Legend will simulcast talk/sports KIML (1270) on the signal. Boston — Ed Perry’s Marshfield Broadcasting files a $165,000 deal to buy ethnic Haitian WXBR, Brockton, MA (1460) from Jhonson Napoleon’s Azure Media. The deal gives Marshfield a second station on the south shore where it already owns AC WATD-FM (95.9). Azure Media still owns three Florida stations. Illinois — Southern Illinois Radio Group files to buy the Carbondale, IL-licensed translator W229BN at 93.7 FM from Community Broadcasting for $24,000. The translator will simulcast “News Talk 1420” WINI, Murphysboro, IL. California — Alta California Community Media files to buy KTHM, Red Bluff (90.9) from Tehama County Community Broadcasters for one dollar. KTHM is a new Class C2 station. Under the deal terms, Alta California Community Media will continue to provide programming on KTHM. Maryland — World India Radio files a deal to buy WTRI, Frederick, MD (1520) from receiver Roger Rafson, who has been overseeing the station under a Maryland Circuit Court order since April 2014 after previous owners Martin Sheehan and Walter Rizer defaulted on their loan agreements and HSBC took them to court. WTRI is a 17,000-watt daytimer that’s spent considerable time off the air since 2010. No cash is changing hands but World India Radio will pay all the costs associated to get the station back on the air.

Daytona Beach — Julia Cherry’s Redemptive Strategies Broadcasting acquires WPUL (1590) from Glen Cherry’s Tama Group for the cancellation of an unspecified amount of debt.

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C L O S I N G S San Francisco — Alpha Media closes an $11.15 million deal to buy three far East Bay adult contemporary stations including KKIQ, Livermore (101.7), AC KKDV, Walnut Creek (92.1), and KUIC, Vacaville (95.3) from Coast Radio Group. Broker: Media Venture Partners (for seller) Fredericksburg, VA — Alpha Media closes an $8.1 million deal to buy “New Country 93.3” WFLS-FM, rhythmic CHR “99.3 The Vibe” WVBX, classic rock “96.9 The Rock” WWUZ and talk/sports WNTX (1350) and its FM translator W234BS (96.5) from Sandton Capital Partners. Broker: George Reed, Media Services Group Denver — Colorado Public Radio closes a $5.75 million deal to buy KDSP (102.3) from the Front Range Sports Network. CPR has begun simulcasting adult alternative “Open Air 1340” KVOQ on the signal. Front Range Sports still owns “105.5 ESPN” KJAC in the Ft. Collins market. Broker: Public Media Company

Nebraska — The Nebraska Rural Radio Association closes a $1.335 million deal to buy AC “Mix 105” KTMX and classic hits KAWL (1370) in York, NE from Mark Jensen’s MWB Broadcasting. He’d owned the stations since 2004. The Nebraska Rural Radio Association adds to its portfolio which also includes rural Nebraska stations in Lexington, Scottsbluff, West Point, and Cozad. Cleveland — The Walt Disney Company has closed on its $895,000 all-cash deal to sell “Radio Disney” station WWMK (1260) to St. Peter The Rock Media. The station is expected to convert to noncommercial Catholic religious programming. Brokers: Greg Guy, Patrick Communications (for buyer) and Bill Schutz (for seller) Charlotte — The Walt Disney Company closes a $600,000 deal to sell WGFY (1480) to Charlotte Advent Media. It becomes the first station for the Charlotte Sharon Seventh-day Adventist Church. Broker: Bill Schutz St. Louis — Christopher Blevins and James Dieckhaus’ Viper Broadcasting closes a deal to buy rock “100.7 The Viper” KFNS- FM from Westplex Broadcasting for $318,750, which amounts to an assumption of all debts and obligations. Huntsville, AL — Somerville Baptist Church closes an $80,000 deal to buy oldies WKZD (1310) from Abercrombie Broadcasting. The deal includes the Priceville, AL-licensed translator W285EN at 104.9 FM. Abercrombie still owns “Big Country 105.7” WQAH- FM in Huntsville. Montgomery, AL — Terry Barber closes a deal to buy gospel WMGY (800) from GHB Broadcasting for $60,000. Barber already owns a minority 14% stake in Bluewater Broadcasting, which operates five Montgomery market stations. Wisconsin — Tomahawk Light Broadcasting closes a deal to transfer the currently-silent WGBT, Tomahawk, WI (91.3) to Radio 74 Internationale in a cash-free donation. WGBT will become an affiliate of the “Radio 74” Christian teaching network.

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