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Date: 10/30/2024   Section: Popmart
Cumulus Media has promoted longtime KRBE/Houston Program Director Leslie Whittle to the newly created position of Regional Content Director, where she will oversee programming for both KRBE and sister station WWWQ (Q99.7) in Atlanta.
Date: 08/29/2022   Section: Rumor Mill
Cumulus Media has plucked VP of Programming Operations Greg Frey to lead its new Music Partnerships division. As the unit's VP of music partnerships, the 12-year Cumulus veteran will serve as the company’s creative liaison to artists, labels, booking agencies and promoters.
Grey FreyCumulusBrian Philips
Date: 05/02/2022   Section: Rumor Mill
Brian Philips has been anointed Chief Content Officer at Cumulus Media. He’ll report to President/CEO Mary Berner, who, speaking of content, managed to pack a ton of it into her prepared statement...
Brian PhilipsCumulus MediaMary G. Berner
Date: 01/11/2021   Section: Rumor Mill
Reports from multiple sources (including the Washington Post) say that Cumulus EVP Content Brian Philips is lowering the boom on conservative talk programs that spread disinformation about the results of November's presidential election.
Date: 05/21/2020   Section: Rumor Mill
Cumulus Media has announced the promotion of Troy Hanson to Vice President/Corporate Programming-Rock Formats. His new role will include oversight of the Classic Rock format to his current portfolio of Active and Alternative formats...
Date: 05/12/2020   Section: Rumor Mill
Cumulus Media has upped John Dimick to the newly created post of SVP/Programming Operations. He was previously from VP of Programming Operations. In this expanded role, Dimick will oversee the company’s team of VPs of Programming Operations and its 11 format specialists. He’ll continue to report to EVP Content and Audience Brian Philips and will remain in the company’s Atlanta HQ.
Date: 04/28/2020   Section: Rumor Mill
Radio listenership is up during the pandemic as people look to local broadcasters to offset the grim headlines. We spoke with two heavyweights, iHeartMedia's Tom Poleman and Cumulus' Brian Philips, for a bit of context.
Date: 10/14/2019   Section: Rumor Mill
Innovator. Iconoclast. Author. Programmer. Husband. Father. Friend. Lover of questionable music. Jay Frank, who died Sunday at the age of 47, was all those things, and so much more...
Date: 09/26/2019   Section: Rumor Mill
There’s a growing perception in the business that “traditional media,” aka radio and TV, aren’t moving the needle when it comes to selling music. That’s a misperception.
Date: 05/06/2019   Section: Rumor Mill
Brian Philips is joining Cumulus Media as Executive Vice President, Content and Audience, succeeding Michael McVay, who is returning to full-time consulting with Cumulus as his first client.
Date: 02/11/2019   Section: Rumor Mill
Kacey Musgraves was awarded Album of the Year, the absent Childish Gambino got Record and Song for “This Is America” and Dua Lipa won Best New Artist in a show that many believe exceeded recently dampened expectations.
Date: 01/03/2019   Section: Rumor Mill
Childish Gambino's "This Is America" is nominated for Grammys for Record and Song of the Year and Best Music Video. How rare an occurrence is that?
Date: 12/07/2018   Section: Rumor Mill
12-time Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar leads the field for the 61st annual Grammy Awards with eight nominations, one more than Drake. The two heavyweights will be up against one another in the three of the Big 4 categories of album, song and record of the year plus Rap Performance and Rap Song.
Date: 11/23/2018   Section: Rumor Mill
The latest column from HITS' man behind the scenes was penned in conjunction with a very special issue: our comprehensive look at the British music industry's female execs and entrepreneurs.
Date: 01/29/2018   Section: Rumor Mill
Bruno Mars takes six awards and sweeps the big categories, while Kendrick Lamar wins five...
Date: 02/14/2017   Section: Rumor Mill
Chance the Rapper started off the night, winning Best New Artist, and Adele emphatically closed it out, double-dipping on Record and Album. So now we know.
Date: 01/11/2016   Section: Rumor Mill
Visionary rock artist David Bowie has died of cancer; he was 69.
Date: 08/18/2015   Section: Rumor Mill
A new multi-year production deal between CMT and producer John Hamlin will have Hamlin’s newly formed Switched On Entertainment executive produce CMT's music events. In addition, the responsibilities of CMT execs Jayson Dinsmore and Leslie Fram have been expanded.
Date: 06/11/2015   Section: Rumor Mill
Our gal in Nashville Holly Gleason filed this report from the scene of country music's loudest night.
Date: 05/27/2015   Section: Rumor Mill
Kurt Patat has been dubbed SVP/Head of Communications for CMT, announced prexy Brian Philips, to whom he'll report. Philips dubbed Patat "the right person for CMT's busiest era ever."
Date: 08/26/2014   Section: Rumor Mill
SWIFT REACTION: What does Nashville have to say about erstwhile format queen Taylor Swift's new, very Pop music? Holly Gleason asked some key players—including CMT's Brian Philips, Sandbox's Jason Owen, I.R.S. Nashville's John Grady and Hard 8 Management's Rich Egan—to weigh in; check out their perspectives here. (8/26a)
Date: 08/26/2014   Section: Rumor Mill
By Holly GleasonAt the height of the Outlaw quasi-crossover hysteria, Waylon Jennings defiantly declared, “I couldn’t go pop with a mouthful of firecrackers.” Taylor Swift, country’s biggest record-seller this century, has flirted with pop and AC for the past five years, yet ...
Date: 07/15/2014   Section: Rumor Mill
Let’s take a look at three heavyweights in what is referred to these days as the content-delivery business, aka giving the people what they want. With 120 Country stations, Clear Channel is the king of the heap at the presently vibrant format, and the iHeartRadio platform brings those station...
Date: 11/26/2013   Section: Rumor Mill
LIKE GRITS & GRAVY: CMT and Clear Channel have just announced the formation of a multi-platform partnership pairing CMT's reach of 92m households and CC's monthly reach of 89m Country listeners. These platforms will include 125 Clear Channel Country stations in 105 markets; iHeartRadi...
Date: 04/29/2013   Section: Rumor Mill
The massive lawsuit being brought by the family of the late Michael Jackson against AEG as promoters of his ill-fated "This Is It" tour begins today in an L.A. civil court. Although a specific amount has not been cited, estimates of what it could cost AEG run into the billions.In the wrongful death ...
Date: 10/18/2012   Section: Rumor Mill
By Holly Gleason At the height of the Outlaw quasi-crossover hysteria, Waylon Jennings defiantly declared, “I couldn’t go pop with a mouthful of firecrackers.” Taylor Swift, country’s biggest record-seller this century, has flirted with pop and AC for the past five years, yet...
Date: 08/16/2011   Section: Rumor Mill
FRAM TO CMT: Radio veteran Leslie Fram, most recently PD and morning show co-host for N.Y. station WRXP, has joined MTV Networks' country channel CMT as SVP Music Strategy, which reunites her with President Brian Philips. The two worked together at Atlanta's legendary PoMo station 99x. She replaces the well-respected Jay Frank, who will remain through the transition in October, and segue into his own digital project next. See the full story here. (8/16p)
Date: 08/16/2011   Section: Rumor Mill
It’s time to fit radio vet Leslie Fram for a ten-gallon hat and some Nudie jackets.Fram has joined CMT as Senior Vice President, Music Strategy, it was announced today by the country network’s President Brian Philips. Fram first worked with Philips in the early ‘90s, transforming ...
Date: 06/10/2010   Section: Rumor Mill
COUNTRY COMFORTS: Last night’s CMT Awards premiere was the #1 Most Watched in the network’s history, up almost 20% from last year. CMT was the #1 most-watched network across all cable during its time period (6-10:30 p.m.), with both persons 18-49 and women 18-49 impressions. Nice job by Brian Philips and company, who deserve a golden spittoon for their efforts. (6/10p)
Date: 11/20/2009   Section: Rumor Mill
After 37 years in the biz, Sony Music Nashville EVP Butch Waugh has announced that he’s retiring, effective Dec. 31.Said Sony Music Nashville Chairman Joe Galante, who’s worked with Butch for 27 years, from Waugh’s earliest days in RCA promotion in Atlanta, on to New York, and ever...
Date: 02/26/2008   Section: Rumor Mill
TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS: BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH MADNESS1. NCAA Basketball Championship: I only pay cursory attention to college basketball during the season, mainly because my St. John’s Red Storm haven’t done shit since they changed their name from the racially offensive Redman back i...
Date: 01/14/2008   Section: Rumor Mill
After some 12 hours of football, we have emerged bloodied, but unbowed, and what can you say about a weekend in which the Giants’ Eli Manning moved on to the next round and his brother, the Colts’ Peyton, did not, where the San Diego Chargers won without both its starting QB (Philip Rive...
Date: 06/26/2007   Section: Rumor Mill
Jay Frank is headed south, as he goes from Yahoo! to Yee-Haw!The veteran music exec has joined CMT as SVP Music Strategy, it was announced today by network EVP/GM Brian Philips. Frank will oversee CMT’s Music and Talent division, and all of the network’s on-air and digital music initia...
Date: 02/09/2007   Section: Rumor Mill
TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS: A PURPLE RAIN’S GONNA FALL1. Prince at the Super Bowl: Sure, he was a revelation, and the most conclusive proof to date the only thing that can rival a hard-fought pro football championship is some good old-fashioned rock & roll pyrotechnics, but with every close-u...
Date: 01/26/2007   Section: Rumor Mill
TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS: CONVERTING TO NARCISSISM1. The Last King of Scotland: You already know about Forest Whitaker’s eye-popping, Oscar-nominated performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, and the way he captures childlike innocence morphing into madman cruelty is truly worth the price of ad...
Date: 12/01/2006   Section: Rumor Mill
TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS: LYIN' IN WINTER1. Stranger Than Fiction/Music from the Motion Picture (Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia): Director Marc Forster’s previous films have dealt with harsh reality (Monster’s Ball, for which Halle Berry won a Best Actress Oscar) and literary fantasy (...
Date: 09/08/2006   Section: Rumor Mill
TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS: OFFICIAL NFL KICKOFF EDITION1. New York Jets: With our concentration focused on the New York Mets’ triumphant, season-long pennant celebration, we probably won’t be paying too much attention to our favorite cursed football team until October, which is coincidenta...
Date: 09/01/2006   Section: Rumor Mill
The college football season gets underway this weekend, with lots of questions still to be answered and no clear-cut favorite for #1, although Ohio State tops the preseason polls. Will USC, after losing Bush, Leinart and White, among numerous teammates now in the NFL, still be one of the top teams a...
Date: 08/18/2006   Section: Rumor Mill
TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS: SAME AS IT EVER WAS1. Sufjan Stevens, The Avalanche (Asthmatic Kitty): If you thought Illinois was a fluke, these self-described “outtakes and extras” from that album come across as Godfather II, a sequel that fills in the spaces and gives the original even more ...
Date: 05/19/2006   Section: Rumor Mill
TRACKIN’ WITH TRAKIN1. Neil Young, Living With War (Reprise)/Freebo, Before the Separation (Poppabo Music): One thing you can say about the boomers: succeeding generations will have to pry pop culture from their cold dead fingers. Neil Young’s fierce antiwar missive strives to be, like h...
Date: 12/22/2005   Section: Rumor Mill
It was another year of non-consensus, as the pundits argued loudly about such high-profile bands as Coldplay, the White Stripes and, of course, the Rolling Stones. Resident Music Snobs Bud Scoppa and Roy Trakin came out unequivocally on the sides of all of the above, also agreeing on the merits of B...
Date: 11/04/2005   Section: Rumor Mill
NBA Season Tips Off: Unlike baseball and football, where parity seems to be the order of the day, in the NBA, the rich just seem to get richer. The San Antonio Spurs add Michael Finley and Nick Van Exel to their championship squad in the off-season, the Shaq-driven Miami Heat, who lost in Game 7 to ...
Date: 04/14/2005   Section: Rumor Mill
If ever a day deserved its own soundtrack, it's the detested April 15. Here's a playlist to put in your iPod so that you have something to listen to while you're standing in line at the post office. Oh, and one other thing: Don't walk down the middle of Ventura Blvd. until Sunday mor...
Date: 12/15/2004   Section: Rumor Mill
TRAKIN'S BEST OF THE WORST: To paraphrase Chucky Dickens, it was the best of the worst of times. What else can you say when the most influential and aesthetically satisfying work of the year isn’t on a record label, can’t be bought in retail stores and is illegal to boot? Welcome to ...
Date: 10/29/2004   Section: Rumor Mill
This weekend’s Halloween and you know what’s truly scary? That the Boston Red Sox just won the World Series. That this Tuesday’s election could mean four more years of what we just went through. That Sarah Michelle Gellar is the new Jamie Lee Curtis. And that Frederick Exley contin...
Date: 10/11/2004   Section: Rumor Mill
"Come about hard and joinThe young and often spring you gaveI heard the wordWonderful thingA children's song" "Surf’s Up"Almost four decades after it was originally slated as the follow-up to Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson’s legendary SMiLE, finally complete and released by Nonesuch throug...
Date: 10/01/2004   Section: Rumor Mill
Before we begin this Weakend Planner, it's time to set some ground rules. First of all, no unexpected questions that our handlers haven't prepared us for. We follow a script here. What do you think this is anyway, Wife Swap? Second, no two-shots of us with our opponent, where you might glimp...
Date: 03/26/2004   Section: Rumor Mill
It’s a good weekend to crawl inside your cranium, Charlie Kaufman style, and just camp out there for the duration. That way, nobody will nudge you when you’re going through 24 hours of TiVo’ed NCAA basketball in about 10 minutes. I mean, life would be so much better on TiVo anyway....
Date: 01/16/2004   Section: Rumor Mill
Baby, it’s cold outside. The media circus gets underway today in Santa Barbara, where the press corps will show up for Michael Jackson’s arraignment, but that’s not the only war being fought this weekend. The NFC and AFC championships will be decided, and then it’s on to some...
Date: 09/19/2003   Section: Rumor Mill
From our perspective in the ever-balmy San Fernando Valley, jumping between CNN and ESPN, with their continuous remotes from the Mid-Atlantic coastal region as Hurricane Isabel approaches (and she seemed like such a quiet girl), the whole thing seems like a special-effects extravaganza. Here in Sher...
Date: 07/03/2003   Section: Rumor Mill
At the midway point of 2003, we give you in excess of 7,500 words on 18 albums (including two stunners that have yet to find a home), 20 selected tracks and 13 DVDs (all in all, it’s been an outtasite six months for shiny round things—artistically, that is), along with seven TV series, f...
Date: 05/02/2003   Section: Rumor Mill
WEAKEND POPCULT TOP 101. I Came, iPod, I Conquered: It took me 10 minutes to download the new iTunes4, including its complete conversion of my existing library and playlists. It took me less than six minutes to register and purchase my first AAC download (exclusive offering of Dylan's alternate...
Date: 03/31/2003   Section: Rumor Mill
John Shea "Stadium" is promoted to Executive Vice President Sponsorship Development and Integrated Marketing for the MTVN Music Group by President Judy "Grapes of" McGrath.Shea was previously Sr. VP Strategic Programming for MTV and batboy for the Mets. The N.Y.-based exec will report to MTV Exec. V...
Date: 12/13/2002   Section: Rumor Mill
Most weeks, the roomful of monkeys that bangs out the crapola below has nothing better to do than harangue anyone who might happen by this sorry site with their ill-considered (or unconsidered) opinions. (It could be worse, of course—we could be haranguing you in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, but we do...
Date: 12/09/2002   Section: Rumor Mill
Clear Channel Entertainment has purchased concert promotion company Metropolitan Entertainment Group from owner and veteran promoter Mitch Slater. Sources say the majority of the MEG staff was let go this morning.Insiders place the purchase price in the mid-$7 million-$12 million range depending on ...
Date: 11/12/2002   Section: Rumor Mill
Eminem is not only a movie star, he’s dominating the record charts too, with two hit albums, giving Jimmy Iovine’s Interscope label group four entries in the Top 10.Shady/Interscope/UMG Sdtrx’s 8 Mile spends its second week at #1, topping the debut from NSYNC’s Justin Timberl...
Date: 10/11/2002   Section: Rumor Mill
We’ve reached that special time of year when America’s four favorite spectator sports—baseball, football, basketball and hockey—are all in play at once. With everything going down on the playing fields, courts and rinks of MLB, the NFL, the NBA and the NHL, this weekend’...
Date: 09/06/2002   Section: Rumor Mill
Until we manage to gently awaken the Guy With the Goggles and prop him up so he can write up his first NF of L Pick of the Week of the new season, suffice to say that sports are now fully back, and gratifyingly so (unless, of course, you happen to be in a relationship with a sports fan, rather than ...
Date: 04/15/2002   Section: Rumor Mill
In a move to further strengthen his place in the concert arena, Clear Channel Entertainment chief Brian Becker has taken back control of his company and has revamped its executive stable.Latest word from the Clear Channel monolith is that music CEOs Rodney Eckerman and Irv Zuckerman will exit the co...
Date: 07/19/2001   Section: Rumor Mill
HARD ROCK HEADS FOR COVERHard Rock Cafe International announced it will showcase some of its $32 million collection in the book "Treasures Of The Hard Rock Cafe." The 300-page coffee-table book, which will be available July 30, is a pictorial guide to the restaurant chain’s music memorabilia c...
Date: 11/20/2000   Section: Rumor Mill
AIDS DAY ON MTVContinuing the fight against AIDS and HIV, MTV announced its global programming for World AIDS Day Dec. 1, including two new specials. "Staying Alive 2," hosted by Ricky Martin, profiles six young adults from around the world who are infected with or affected by AIDS and HIV. The seco...