NEWS ONLINE

CONTENTS:

• Radio Ink
• R&R

RADIO INK

Radio Ink markets itself as "Radio's Premier Management and Marketing Magazine." While its news features are a bit disappointing from a prospect research perspective, if you are tracking radio personalities or have radio station prospects, this is a site to know.

Today's News, on the home page, has news about radio execs, issues and ratings. You can also subscribe for free to get daily headlines with brief story abstracts by e-mail.

Company News, a misnomer if you are looking for actual news, connects you to major publicly and privately held radio company Web sites, not their news feeds. Ditto with Business News, which links to the top five business publications, not news about the radio industry.

While news is on the sparse side, there is a lot of helpful information here. One of the best features of this site is its 10 Annual Lists: the best, most influential and powerful people in radio in 2002 and 2003. Find them under Radio Ink Lists. The lists span 2002 and 2003 and cover the best, most influential and powerful people in radio.

Industry Links, also accessed from the sidebar on the home page, provides links to radio industry trade and recording associations, licensing organizations and Halls of Fame Web pages.

Learn more about the radio industry and its movers and shakers at

http://www.radioink.com

R&R

Radioandrecords.com is another site of interest if you need "Instant Information for the Radio and Records Industries." A quick click on Today s News provides morning and afternoon updates for today and yesterday. Under Formats, find genre-specific news, along with air play charts and links to radio stations.

Click on Stocks to see the industry composite, top gainers and losers, and most active stocks in the industry. The Industry Stocks link at the top of the Stock Roundup page gives you stock performance for all stocks. You can even set up a portfolio to set up and track stock performance of prospect companies in this industry. In addition, there are the market ratings and radio or record industry-related FCC filings for the day.

In The Directory, check out links to Web pages of industry organizations, as well as marketing, research and show set-up firms, record labels and "voice talent," the people who provide voices for commercials, cartoons and public service announcements.

There s a lot to explore, learn and track!

http://radioandrecords.com

Chris Mildner (for Pamela J. Smith)

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