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PARTY105 IS SEARCHING FOR A MORNING SHOW CO-HOST
INTRODUCING PARTY105’S “MORNING SHOW SUPERSTAR SEARCH”
PARTY105 (WPTY-FM) IS SEARCHING FOR A CO-HOST FOR THE NEW MORNING SHOW!
Ahead of 20 Year Anniversary, Long Island’s Home For Party Hits & Throwbacks Is Encouraging Fans to Submit Videos Through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Explaining Why They Have What It Takes to Be The New Morning Show Co-Host
Long Island’s Party 105.3FM is seeking to add NEW TALENT to the morning-mix for the Radio Station ’s first local morning show in over eight years.
- Are you the life of the Party?
- Do people say you have a great personality?
- Can you WAKE UP EARLY? (#realtalk)
This is your SHOT to show what you GOT!
The rules are simple:
Post a video on Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter illustrating why you’re the next SUPERSTAR! Tag @Party105 and use #Party105Superstar to be entered.
If you are selected, you’ll be on your way to becoming the next BIG THING on Long Island alongside Party105’s host Just Joe.
Just Joe is the Program Director and On-Air Personality on Party105 – he has been part of this team for 4 years. Starting as a nightclub DJ, he’s rocked parties from NYC to LA and genres from Hip-Hop to EDM. Catch him performing consistently at local venues and every weekday morning on Party105.
On the upcoming Superstar search, Joe says “I’m excited to be putting together the next morning show on Party105! I can’t wait to see all the talented people from Long Island. It’s truly going to be an exciting experience!” For More Information on Party 105, VISIT: www.Party105.com
Pennies from Kevin Podcast: Split Second Without a Minute to Waste
We only have a split-second on this earth, that means you literally don’t have a minute to waste
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Lionel Richie Solo Albums to Be Released On Vinyl By Universal Music
Three Multiplatinum Lionel Richie Solo Albums to Be Released On Vinyl Worldwide December 8 By Motown/UMe
- The Legendary Singer/Songwriter and Recent Kennedy Center Honoree
- Celebrates His Solo Motown Legacy with a Trio of Mastered for Vinyl Releases
On December 8, Motown/UMe will release three historic albums on vinyl from one of the most successful solo artists in Pop/R&B crossover history, Lionel Richie. This mega-platinum album triple-play — 1982’s Lionel Richie, 1983’s Can’t Slow Down, and 1985’s Dancing On The Ceiling — sealed the recent Kennedy Center Honoree’s legacy as one of the most popular singer/songwriters of the modern era, in the wake of his 1982 departure from the lineup of one of Motown’s biggest artists of the Seventies, the Commodores.
BUY LIONEL RITCHIE MUSIC ON AMAZON
Lionel Richie’s singular blend of songwriting artistry and catchy, singalong hooks has long defied genre-labeling, propelling his mass appeal to fans of R&B, soul, pop and country alike, and leading to his amassing more than 100 million album sales to date. Over the course of these three albums, Richie garnered four No. 1 singles on theBillboard Hot 100 (“Truly,” “All Night Long (All Night),” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me”) and a dozen Top 10 singles overall on the Pop, R&B, and Adult Contemporary charts alike.
Lionel Richie (1982) is the quadruple-platinum release that announced Richie was more than capable of connecting with millions of fans both new and old with his name appearing alone on the marquee. Alongside co-producer James Anthony Carmichael, whom he had previously worked with while in the Commodores, Richie crafted the template for his Eighties success via the emotional weight behind the chart-topping ballad “Truly,” the upbeat horn-driven accents on the chorus of “You Are,” and the overall vocal panache on “My Love,” which also featured background vocals from a favored collaborator, Kenny Rogers. (Richie wrote Rogers’s massive 1980 #1 crossover hit, “Lady.”)
Can’t Slow Down (1983) continued the Richie juggernaut, ultimately achieving Diamond status by selling more than 10 million copies. Again co-produced with Carmichael, Can’t Slow Down’s first #1 single, “All Night Long (All Night),” broadened Richie’s appeal with an undeniable Caribbean-flavored hook, while the heartfelt chart-topping piano ballad “Hello” also benefitted from an iconic video directed by Bob Giraldi. The infectiously grooving “Running With The Night” also sported an electrifying guitar solo by Toto’s Steve Lukather. Meanwhile, “Stuck On You” spotlighted the artist’s emerging country leanings that eventually peaked with his platinum-selling 2012 offering, Tuskegee. That album, named after the town in Alabama Richie was born in, featured 14 down-home reworkings of his hits as highlighted by collaborations with contemporary country artists including Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, and Kenny Chesney.
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Dancing On The Ceiling (1985) completed Richie’s 1980s chart-success trifecta with Carmichael by his side in the co-producer’s chair, achieving quadruple-platinum status while also supplying another slew of major hits. The title track’s colorful, kinetic video contains an homage to Fred Astaire’s iconic ceiling-dancing moves in 1951’s Royal Wedding. “Love Will Conquer All” marked Richie’s tenth appearance at the top of the Adult Contemporary chart. And the #1 ballad “Say You, Say Me,” originally written for White Nights, a Cold War thriller starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines, won Richie a well-deserved Academy Award® for Best Original Song.
Lionel Richie CAN’T SLOW DOWN [1983, vinyl]
1. Can’t Slow Down
2. All Night Long (All Night)
3. Penny Lover
4. Stuck On You
5. Love Will Find A Way
6. The Only One
7. Running With The Night
8. Hello
Lionel Richie DANCING ON THE CEILING [1985, vinyl]
1. Dancing On The Ceiling
2. Se La
3. Ballerina Girl
4. Don’t Stop
5. Deep River Woman
6. Love Will Conquer All
7. Tonight Will Be Alright
8. Say You, Say Me
9. Night Train (Smooth Alligator) [vinyl bonus track
METROPCS SOUNDS OF CHICAGO POWERED BY PANDORA FEATURING BIG SEAN
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Nielsen and clypd Enhance Audience-Based Buying
Will enable Execution and Posting On Media Buys Across Networks By Combining Nielsen’s Audience-Based Buying Data With clypd’s Advanced Targeting Proposal, Forecasting and Yield Optimization PlatformNielsen NielsenNielsen (NYSE: NLSN) announced today that it will collaborate with clypd, a leading audience-based sales platform for television networks.
The syndicated service will offer the advertising ecosystem a fully integrated, linear TV targeting solution that will benefit marketers, agencies, buying platforms and publiaudiences that matter most—be it a first time car buyer or a frequent lunchbox snack purchaser—is paramount for both TV networks and advertisers.
By enabling buyers to seamlessly share their media plans and the audience segments created via Nielsen’s planning service, Nielsen Media Impact, with sellers through the clypd platform, media owners will be able to instantaneously price, evaluate and execute targeted audience buys.
In addition, publimarketers to leverage their own audience data sets for the purposes of planning and executing TV advertising buys has been limited in scale and cumbersome.
clypd and Nielsen are creating a streamlined workflow to bring efficiency to marketers looking to transact on TV with their own data and for media buyers new to TV advertising to leverage unique digital assets within TV.
The collaboration between Nielsen and clypd will give clients the ability to target Linear TV audiences by leveraging consumer profiles available through Nielsen TV MRI Fusion, Nielsen Buyer Insights, Nielsen Catalina Solutions, and other first-party data segments.
“The collaboration between Nielsen and clypd will give marketers and media owners a frictionless, reliable and cost-effective way to transact linear TV, enabling them to spend more time making decisions that can truly drive bottom line results,” said Kelly Abcarian, Senior Vice President, Product Leadership, Nielsen.
“Being able to seamlessly define and execute buys against advanced audiences, as well as validate the delivery of these audience segments with the same rigor as we demand for age and gender across all linear TV programming today, is a crucial advancement for the industry.”
Additionally, this flexible solution, powered by the Nielsen Marketing Cloud, will pave the way for advertisers to activate an even wider range of valuable audiences on linear TV. It allows linear TV audiences to be defined based on thousands of additional consumer attributes and helps marketers reach these audiences across all marketing channels, as well as analyze and optimize the performance of their campaigns.
“We are excited to deepen our relationship with Nielsen, bringing innovations to market which will allow media owners and marketers to optimize their audience-driven TV advertising by activating Nielsen’s industry-leading data products,” said Joshua Summers, CEO and Co-founder at clypd.
“This collaboration marks a turning point in the industry, bringing us one step closer to realizing the power of advanced audience optimization and true targeted linear TV advertising.”
This solution brings together the most advanced audience-based buying data and solutions from Nielsen with clypd’s advanced target proposal, forecasting and yield management platform to enable inventory optimization for the buying of Linear TV audiences.
Advertising campaigns originating through this service will be posted using the clypd platform, which will be integrated with Nielsen’s industry-leading TV ratings methodologies to provide advertisers with the same confidence that they already expect from age and gender buys today.
“The industry is at a critical juncture where marketers are looking to pinpoint important and valued consumers,” said Keith Kazerman, Group Senior Vice President, Discovery Communications. “We are thrilled to be working with Nielsen and clypd as they bring a new collaborative solution to the marketplace that delivers a much-needed standard for agencies and buyers, clients and sellers, to execute audience based buying.”
Manny Bella and Lester Pace Radio StationAnnouncement
Manny Bella and Lester Pace’s Rochester, NY 250 watt radio station will premiere approximately around Sept 15. They are staffing up as you read this. There are still a couple of air shifts available. Submit your materials to Edward Sanchez [email protected]. No phone calls, please.
Marc Clarke Exits 103.9 NYC
Marc Clarke leaving New York to focus on Family and new business After commuting for three years doing evenings at Radio103.9 New York and coming home on the weekends to the DC area Marc Clarke has decided to come home and spend more time with the family.
Marc is the president of the e-commerce business platform Archer & Pine (www.archerpine.com) which he launched last year with partner founder/CEO Morgan Gantt and will also be working on a new podcast and a new daily show “The Marc Clarke Show” which will launch 9/4/2017 and stream on (www.archerpine.com)
McKool Smith Secures $9.4 Million Verdict for Quincy Jones against the Michael Jackson Estate
McKool Smith has secured a $9.4 million jury verdict on behalf of legendary music producer Quincy Jones against the late music icon Michael Jackson’s production company, MJJ Productions Inc., in a breach of contract and royalty dispute. Mr. Jones produced a number of the King of Pop’s most acclaimed albums, including “Off the Wall,” “Thriller,” and “Bad.”
The lawsuit centered on allegations that MJJ Productions Inc., which is controlled by Michael Jackson’s estate, failed to pay Mr. Jones royalties for the soundtrack to “This Is It,” a documentary that was released just months after Michael Jackson’s death, and Jackson’s Cirque du Soleil productions, which both feature several musical hits produced by Jones.
The verdict was announced on July 26, 2017 following a two-week jury trial before Judge Michael L. Stern in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles. After deliberating for more than two days, the jury returned a verdict in favor of McKool Smith’s client finding that MJJ Productions Inc. owes Mr. Jones $9.4 million in unpaid royalty fees.
“The jury worked tirelessly to listen to all of the evidence and weigh the facts of the case,” said Mike McKool, a founder and Chairman of McKool Smith and lead counsel for Quincy Jones. “As we have maintained throughout trial, based on contractual obligations and a long standing agreement with Mr. Jackson himself, Quincy Jones is clearly entitled to his fair share of royalties based on his significant contributions to many of Michael Jackson’s most iconic pieces of work. We are very pleased with the jury’s decision.”
The McKool Smith trial team included Mike McKool, J. Michael Hennigan, Robert E. Allen, Scott L. Cole, and Caroline M. Walters, along with Henry Gradstein and Maryann R. Marzano of Gradstein & Marzano PC.
The case is Quincy Jones et al. v. MJJ Productions Inc. et al., case number BC525803, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles.
With more than 180 trial lawyers across offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Marshall, New York, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C., McKool Smith has establi Leading Hollywood producer Will Packerhas partnered with Discovery Communications and Universal Pictures to form Will Packer Media, a first-of-its-kind production and branded content company. The venture will focus on the New American Mainstream audience, with an Black millennial core that is defining and driving pop culture at large. Packer, who has had nine films open at number one at the box office, will serve as CEO. Will Packer Media will produce episodic scripted and unscripted series across television and digital platforms; create compelling content for brand clients; and build a consumer-facing digital destination offering short-form content for millennial audiences. “We have put together a dream team of the best talent and partners to help us create bold and fresh content for audiences hungry for something special,” said Packer, whose Will Packer Productions maintains its first-look film production deal at Universal Pictures and continues to operate as a separate entity. “We are creating a new model for content production that sees TV and digital as equals, and combines the best of storytelling and brands for an underserved audience.” “As the media industry continues its rapid transformation, and as younger, more diverse viewers seek to be nouriDavid Zaslav, President and CEO, Discovery Communications. “Discovery is proud to lead the investment in Will Packer Media and we are excited for the opportunities, both creative and commercial, that this new model of company and its strong leadership team can bring to life for audiences and advertisers.” “Will is a creative genius and one of Universal’s most important partners within our film studio,” said Jeff Shell, Chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. “We are proud to back Will and his exceptional team and look forward to continued success together.” As a key part of the Discovery Communications investment, OWN and Will Packer have entered into a unique programming relationship, highlighted by first-look television opportunities, furthering the momentum around the network’s successful scripted programming strategy. “Will Packer has an incredible track record of proven hits and we couldn’t be more excited to work together on new scripted and unscripted programming opportunities for OWN with this new venture,” said Erik Logan, President, OWN. “His unique voice and connection with audiences is unparalleled.” In support of its mission, Will Packer Media has acquired creative and technology agency Narrative_, which will form a core part of the new company. Co-founded by Tricia Clarke-Stone and Russell Simmons, Narrative_ develops marketing campaigns for blue-chip brands and start-ups including Under Armour, JCPenney, Samsung and Santo Mezquila, and creates technology products to help brands build deeper connections with consumers. The award-winning firm recently received a Webby, and was shortlisted for a Cannes Lion Award for its campaign for Showtime’s Billions. Clarke-Stone has been named Will Packer Media’s Head of Brand Studio, leading all brand initiatives. Alix Baudin, most recently SVP and GM of Digital Operations at Scripps Networks Interactive, has joined the new company as Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing day-to-day operations, growth strategy and digital initiatives. “Our goal is to be the leading storytelling company focused on our core demographic of New American Mainstream audiences across multiple devices and platforms,” said Baudin. Clarke-Stone added, “Will has developed a flawless reputation over the past decade for creating entertainment that crosses demographics and influences the culture at large. We are excited to join this team, and to take the knowledge, creativity, and innovation that we’ve developed at Narrative_ to even more audiences and brands.” Packer’s films have earned more than $1 billion, and include the RIDE ALONG and THINK LIKE A MAN franchises, THE WEDDING RINGER, STOMP THE YARD, and the recently released GIRLS TRIP, which earned the largest domestic box office opening for a live-action comedy this year. He served as an executive producer on the $203 million-grossing STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON. In television, he was an executive producer of the Emmy-nominated remake of “Roots” and is an executive producer on the BET series “Being Mary Jane,” starring Gabrielle Union. Will Packer Media will have offices in Los Angeles, New York City and Atlanta. CAA advised Packer on the transaction, and attorneys Matthew Johnson at Ziffren Brittenham and Michael Eisner at Eisner Jaffe also advised Packer and Will Packer Media. Financial terms were not disclosed.Discovery Communications Partners with Will Packer for New Venture
Manny Bella and Lester Pace Buying Rochester Radio Station
KUDOS to industry record vets Lester Pace and Manny Bella. The two have formed a partnership “Bluelight Communications” and the first purchase is a Radio Station in Rochester, NY 105.5 (W288CS) for $650,000. Bluelight is purchasing the Radio Station (W288CS) from the Richard Kimble & Patricia Anderson Partnership. Dick Kozacko served as broker. Read more here
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Hard Summer Music Festival Plans Mobb Deep Forever Tribute To Prodigy
HARD SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2017 has plans for MOBB DEEP FOREVER, a celebration of PRODIGY’s life, a tribute to the recently passed iconic rapper, on SATURDAY, AUGUST 6th.
The tribute includes a traditional set from MOBB DEEP’s HAVOC, joined by special guest performers and will feature a specially designed video presentation of memorials for PRODIGY from around the world. A-TRAK will also perform a tribute DJ set.
MOBB DEEP FOREVER headlines the purple stage at HARD SUMMER, which also includes SKEPTA, YEHME2, E-40, BRODINSKI, UNCLE JXM, GHETTS, PROBLEM, UFFIE, OSHI and MAD ZACH.
Other highlights of HARD SUMMER include SNOOP DOGG, who will perform his seminal album “Doggystyle” live in its entirety for the first time, headliners MIGOS and RAE SREMMURD, U.K. hip-hop & grime acts SKEPTA, JME (for his first WEST COAST play), GHETTS, MADAME X, DAVE and AJ TRACEY — making his first-ever festival appearance along with major hit producer MIKE WILL MADE IT, TY DOLLA $IGN, TINASHE,
Grammy-nominated sensations The Walls Group Release New Single
GRAMMY -nominated and double Stellar Award-winning sensations The Walls Group continues to shatter expectations as one of the most imaginative breakout artists in inspirational music today, as the hitmaking four siblings (Darrel Walls, Rhea Walls, Paco Walls, Ahjah Walls) release their new single “My Life” (Fo Yo Soul/RCA), available now at all digital providers and going out to radio.
With eager high anticipation for new music, The Walls Group launches “My Life” as the first single from their upcoming new album THE OTHER SIDE, helmed by super producers Warryn Campbell and Eric Dawkins. The critically-acclaimed quartet delivers a buoyant new power anthem to inspire listeners daily on “My Life,” infused with the progressive sounds, electrifying vocals and confident message of purpose that showcase the ongoing growth of their talents reaching new heights.
Darrel Walls and Ahjah Walls also collaborated on the songwriting for “My Life” along with Eric Dawkins, Warryn Campbell, Damon Thomas, and Damien Farmer, which melds sounds of R&B, Gospel, and more. Following their explosive rise on the music scene from their first album to their #1 major label debut album FAST FORWARD signed to Kirk Franklin’s Fo Yo Soul/RCA, the Houston-based phenoms have garnered accolades for their music and live performances – including a GRAMMY® nomination for the hit song “Love on The Radio,” and winning two Stellar Awards for Contemporary Group/Duo of the Year and Group/Duo of the Year – and da1...1,5871,5881,589...1,591Page 1,588 of 1,591
