Marijane Milton, a twenty-year radio veteran, has been appointed Director of Training for First Internet Media Corporation and will lead a new training initiative for radio broadcasters called "Innuity Internet University." (FIMC is a division of Innuity Media Services.)

In a company press release today, FIMC COO Norman Feuer said that Milton "has a national as well as international reputation as a top-notch manager, trainer and presenter." Most recently, she was an Executive Performance Coach for AMFM University. Previously, she worked in Paris handling international sales for the huge European broadcaster, Groupe NRJ. Originally from Seattle, Milton spent many years in that radio market that included AE, LSM and NSM positions with Bonneville at KIRO FM, and GSM and GM roles for Brown Broadcasting at KRWM.

"Broadcasters are starting to understand the importance of the Internet to radio stations, but until now have not had a resource capable of educating and training their sales and programming staffs to effectively use the station's Website," Feuer noted.

The first of the radio-specific courses in the program, "Unlock the Power," is scheduled to begin in late May 2000.

Radio Ink has more from FIMC's press release here.




From the Chicago Sun-Times: "While Steve Dahl sits out his weeklong suspension from WCKG-FM (105.9) and continues to make noise about quitting, he told fans on his Web site that he's working on 'some Internet broadcast solutions' to get himself behind a microphone again..."

This is a follow-up to yesterday's RAIN story ("Dahl resigns!"), here. Read media columnist Robert Feder's full item here. And to visit Dahl's Dahl.com website for an update from the personality himself, click here.




Also from the Chicago Sun-Times: "Jo Robinson, who held three jobs as midday host, music director and assistant program director at the former WRCX, has joined the Interactive division of Emmis Communications Corp., parent company of WKQX-FM (101.1). Robinson, who most recently was program director of Emmis-owned WNAP-FM in Indianapolis, will focus on content and music elements for the Emmis Web site."

Read more from Feder here.




Yesteday's lead story (here) was about a press release claiming that a disgruntled employee had "stolen" EBandRadio.com's three electronica radio stations and that the station was being deluged by calls from concerned listeners.

"You'd have everything from yesterday..."             -- Lou Josephs (loujo@ix.netcom.com)

April 18, 2000 1:22:13 PM

[Regarding the questions you posed at the end of the article:]

1. You would have a daily incremental backup at 99.5% of all hosting farms.. That means you'd have everything from yesterday..so whatever you might have added would be lost. You'd also have a backup of the OS.

2. Unlikely..as the minute someone is blown out the door, just like radio they're locked out of the building in this case the server systems. If they didn't do this..how stupid can you be.

3-rest...Hype

"It doesn't pass the smell test..."    -- Len Feldman, Equipoint Corp./Comedyaudio.com

April 18, 2000 1:39:44 PM

"Online radio cyber terrorism?" It doesn't pass the "smell test." Why would a publicly traded company with insurance obligations keep no backup of the site whatsoever? Why would it issue a press release to tell the world (including its shareholders) that it's completely incompetent? How could "a disgruntled former employee" wipe out all traces of the site, everywhere? And, as you pointed out, how could listeners get a phone number to call when there's no phone number on the "placeholder" site?

In my opinion, it's most likely a publicity stunt, designed to garner press and spread the URL around. If they've got little or no traffic, there's no disadvantage in shutting the site down for a short time, if it results in more visits (all of which are counted in the log files.) In a few days, after they've gotten the press coverage they're looking for, the site will miraculously be rediscovered on a CD or hard disk somewhere, and the radio stations will return to the air.

This is an increasingly common tactic -- a website is "defaced" by "hackers," and word is spread (both by the the "victim" itself and by others working for the "victim") about the attack. The press picks up on the story, and site traffic explodes. Then, a few days later, it's revealed that the "victim" actually did the defacing itself.

I could be completely wrong, but if this episode is eventually revealed as a hoax, I hope that you hammer them.

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