KISW/Seattle Promotes Ryan Castle to Brand ManagerEntercom makes leadership promotions for KISW-FM/Seattle, elevating Ryan Castle to Brand Manager. Concurrently, Taryn Daly is promoted to Assistant Brand Manager of the Rock station. Both moves are effective immediately. Castle had previously served as Assistant Brand Manager since joining Entercom ….. Read More.RADIO-ONLINE – News | Radio-TV Industry NewsThu, March 4, 20214 days ago
This Week in Apps: App Store bill passes AZ House, ‘deep nostalgia’ goes viral, Twitter Spaces a…Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re also a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a combined $544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile focus. In 2020, investors poured $73 billion in capital…
KPLZ Morning Show Exits In Sinclair Layoffs Sinclair Broadcast Group announced layoffs on Wednesday affecting five percent of their total workforce. The largest operator of local television stations also owns four radio stations in Seattle. Among the exits from the company are the “Curt, Corine & Leonard” morning show at Hot AC “Star 101.5” KPLZ Seattle. Curt Kruse joined KPLZ as afternoon host in 2002. Corine McKenzie began with the station in 1996 as part of the morning show, then teamed with Kruse in afternoons in 2004 until their move to mornings in December 2018. Leonard Barokas had been with the station since 1991 and has served as morning show producer since 1994 and also served as Assistant Program Director. PugetSound.media adds that KPLZ’s Music Director has exited. Alisa Hashimoto joined then CHR “Z101.5” as a sales assistant in 1989 before moving to the programming side. ….. Read More.RADIO INSIGHT…
Corey Lewandowski Allegedly Wanted More Than $1 Million for a Trump PardonSoon after the November election, a business colleague of Donald Trump’s close ally Corey Lewandowski offered a whistleblower and convicted ex-banker an expensive deal: In exchange for a $300,000 fee up front—plus another $1 million if successful—the two men would push the then-president for a pardon, according to the ex-banker and an associate who heard the pitch.Brad Birkenfeld, whose exposure of tax-evasion schemes yielded billions of dollars for U.S. coffers, told me he received this offer in person from Lewandowski’s colleague Jason Osborne. In a later phone call with a second Birkenfeld associate, Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, upped the initial fee to $500,000 and boasted that he was meeting with Trump the next day to discuss pardons, Birkenfeld told me. Birkenfeld, who said he rejected both offers as “shakedowns,” tried other avenues to obtain a pardon, but a…
Batherson, Senators defeat Flames 4-3 in shootoutCALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Drake Batherson scored the shootout winner to give the Ottawa Senators a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night. Connor Brown, Ryan Dzingel and Colin White scored in regulation for the Senators. “I thought we played a good game even when (the Flames) ….. Read More.WASHINGTON TIMES – Sports | Sports & RecreationSun, March 7, 20213 hours ago