Month: September 2022

Benztown and P1 Media Group will host a free webinar on Thursday, September 15, 2022, for radio professionals around the globe, entitled Join the Conversation: The Incredible NOW! Radio Success Story. The webinar will be hosted by Andreas Sannemann, CEO, Benztown, and Ken Benson, Partner, P1 Media Group, and features Mark Hunter, VP of Programming, NOW! Radio, and Ross Winters, Director of Programming, Pattison Media, Canada’s largest western-based media company.  This is the 24th in the webinar series from top radio experts from around the world.Mark Hunter started his radio career in 1985, when he was hired on his 19th birthday to work with Rawlco in Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Prince Albert and Regina. He was on-air, producer, creative director, and News/Talk producer before he got his dream job as Program Director in 2000. In 2009, Hunter was named Program Director of a new license in Edmonton, CKNO-FM, and eight months later, NOW! Radio was born.He programmed 102.3 NOW! Radio Edmonton for 10 years, driving huge ratings and billings success which continues today.Hunter is currently a Senior Programmer for Pattison Media, working mostly in Metro markets including Calgary, Winnipeg, and British Columbia.Ross Winters began his radio career as a DJ at a Top 40 radio station in Victoria, British Columbia. He quickly moved into programming and worked as Program Director at legendary Canadian Rock stations in Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Toronto. While programming Rock 101 in Vancouver, Winters also served as National PD for Corus Entertainment, one of the largest groups in Canada.He spent time as a researcher and consultant before joining Pattison Media as Director of Programming in 2015.In the 30-minute webinar, Hunter and Winters will share their thoughts on programming successful radio stations today, and the power of doing things differently, including:
How a truly unique and different type of radio station became a runaway success
What are their secrets for finding, developing, and retaining the best talent today?
What has the response been to NOW! Radio’s music policy of allowing on-air talent to play the music that they want to play?
How important is talk to the success of their music stations?
Why do they refer to the NOW! Radio community as the NOW! Family?
Why don’t traditional promotions work for NOW! Radio? […]

Podcast Day 24 will be held on 4th October this year with three in-person conferences in Sydney, London and New York, all on the same day, bringing together the top broadcasters, publishers, platforms and technology companies from around the globe.Podcast Day 24 will include:
Content, Industry Trends, Spotlights, Revenue and Research
Find out the secrets behind some of Australia’s biggest shows…
Hear from the big names in the podcast world, the latest news, the facts and figures
Get the inside track from the new companies making a splash
What are the commercial opportunities for podcasters and networks and what’s the data     telling us about this new audience.
Attendees in Sydney also get free access to videos of all the podcast sessions in London and New York.Toni & Ryan (Ryan Jon Dunn and Toni Lodge) will be taking to the stage and sharing how they made the leap from radio to podcast in a multimillion-dollar deal with Spotify. Toni and Ryan have built a cult following for their podcast since launching in August 2021, in less than a year they clocked 1.3 million downloads in a single month.How did they make the leap from radio to podcast, what can be learnt about the role of video or ‘vodcasts’ and how do they plan to keep innovating since signing with Spotify.Prithi Dey from Spotify will be chairing the discussion.Starting a new show: the 50/50 rule.It’s easy to focus on the idea, but what else should be considered when launching a new podcast?Discover how the team at LiSTNR approach the launch of a new podcast and what the five rules of success are.With over twenty-five years in the entertainment industry, Executive Head of Podcasting LiSTNR, Grant Tothill shares exclusive insights and knowledge.What Makes a Compelling Narrative Podcast?Siobhán McHugh, Consulting Producer, The Greatest Menace discusses how to take a story and make it into bingeable audio.In this session the internationally recognised podcast producer, documentary-maker, oral historian, writer, journalism academic, podcast critic, podcasting consultant and The Power of Podcasting author, discusses tips, tricks and best practice to use story, sound, script and episodes to achieve the most compelling storytelling through sound.Some of the speakers confirmed for Podcast Day 24 include:Marc Fennell, It Burns (Audible), Nut Jobs (Audible), and the chart-topping hit ABC/CBC podcast Stuff the British Stole, Scott Stephens ABC’s Religion & Ethics Editor and the co-host, with Waleed Aly, of The Minefield on ABC Radio National. […]