Tampa Bay’s Wild 94.1 adapts to music’s shifts, but keeps a steady beat

JAY CRIDLIN | Tampa Bay Times TAMPA — Twelve nights before drawing a standing ovation at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, pop singer Tori Kelly stood before an intimate crowd at Tampa’s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, strumming an acoustic guitar and opening up about her songwriting process. A fast-rising star, Kelly easily could […]

WANTED: A RENAISSANCE IN RADIO ADVERTISING

October 6, 2014 · by Christian Jenkins For most people, radio is that ratty old blanket on the couch, it keeps you warm in an emergency, but when company comes over, please, please, please, oh please hide that thing. Marketers and their clients see it as the thing that Olgivy, Rubicam, and Burnett used to […]

Beasley: Radio’s Still a Great Place to Be

by James Careless | Radio World Radio is certainly in George Beasley’s blood. He launched his first station, 500-watt WPYB(AM), in 1961 in Benson, N.C., while working as an assistant principal at a public high school. Beasley worked evenings and weekends in radio until 1969; by then he was a principal, but he left his job […]