New Session Announced At WWRS 2017! Science Sounds Boring, Art Gets You Fired -- Creating Compelling Radio

Flipping The Script On Creative Programming

Once again, WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2017 is lining up fresh ideas and cutting edge issues for discussion for our seventh year, which looks to break another attendance record.  Are you set to join us and learn?  It's MAY 3, 4, 5 at the W HOTEL, HOLLYWOOD.  Discounted rooms are in limited supply!

Register for WWRS 2017 here!  And if you have 5 or more coming from your station or company grab a 15% discount when you register at the same time!  Reach out to TYLER POLZIN to set it up.

Flying in for WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2017?  Choose DELTA, our travel partner, offering up to a 10% discount on airfare to WWRS 2017 when you use travel code NMNYN.

WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2017 brings together some of the best programming minds to help you see the path to creativity on THURSDAY, MAY 4th at 4:45p for MUSIC & PROGRAMMING: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE SOUND - "Science Sounds Boring/Art Gets You Fired -- Creating Compelling Radio".

Radio is challenged by many alternatives today -– yet it continues to drive massive audience behavior in music tastes, consumption and purchasing power. 

How does radio continue to be creative, compelling and memorable under the weight of short, repetitive playlists, large commercial loads and largely less-than-entertaining air-talent?

Our panel will offer you some cutting-edge insight toward breakthrough radio content that work. These will be ideas that you can take home with you and apply the following week.

MODERATED BY: 
TONY COLES, EVP/Programming, iHEARTMEDIA 

PANELISTS:
MICHAEL MARTIN, SVP/Programming And Music Initiatives, CBS RADIO 
MIKE McVAY, SVP/Content & Programming, CUMULUS MEDIA  
KURT JOHNSON, SVP/Programming, TOWNSQUARE MEDIA 
VALERIE GELLER, President, GELLER MEDIA INTERNATIONAL

Just another of the cutting edge session on tap at WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2017!

Look at the amazing lineup of WWRS 2017 speakers we have, so far:

• NEAL SCHORE, President & CEO, TRITON DIGITAL 
• ALI ABHARY, CEO, KARNIVAL MEDIA GROUP (TURKEY) 
• CAROLINE BEASLEY, CEO, BEASLEY BROADCAST GROUP
• CHRIS PRICE, Head Of Music, BBC RADIO 1 & 1XTRA 
• DARREN DAVIS, President, Networks Group, iHEARTMEDIA 
• SUZANNE GRIMES, President, WESTWOOD ONE 
• ERICA FARBER, President & CEO, RAB 
• BRAD KELLY, Managing Director, NIELSEN AUDIO 
• JUSTIN CHASE, EVP/Programming, BEASLEY BROADCAST GROUP 
• PHILIPPE GENERAL, President, RCS, MEDIABASE, 
• RICK CUMMINGS, President/Programming, EMMIS 
• CHARLIE SISLEN, Partner, THE RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INC
• FRED JACOBS, Founder & Pres., JACOBS MEDIA
• STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, CEO, AMPLIFI MEDIA 
• TONY COLES, EVP/Programming, iHEARTMEDIA 
• MICHAEL MARTIN, SVP/Programming And Music Initiatives, CBS RADIO 
• MIKE McVAY, SVP/Content & Programming, CUMULUS MEDIA 
• KURT JOHNSON, SVP/Programming, TOWNSQUARE MEDIA
• VALERIE GELLER, President, GELLER MEDIA INTERNATIONAL
• LORI LEWIS, CUMULUS and WESTWOOD ONE VP/Social Media
• JAMES CRIDLAND, Radio Futurologist
• KEVIN LEGRETT, Pres. LA Region & SW Division
• DANIEL ANSTANDIG, CEO FUTURI MEDIA 
• RALPH SIMON, CEO, MOBILIUM GLOBAL
• JOE KNAPP, Founder, MUSICMASTER
• MANDAR THAKUR, COO, TIMES MUSIC (INDIA)
• KID KELLY, VP/POP & PD HITS1 & VENUS, SIRIUSXM
• ANDREW CURRAN, President/COO, DMR/Interactive President/COO, DMR/Interactive
• KELLY DOHERTY, VP/Imaging, iHEARTMEDIA
• STEVE REYNOLDS, President, THE REYNOLDS GROUP
• ELLIOT IN THE MORNING, DC101/WASHINGTON
• KELLIE RASBERRY, KIDD KRADDICK SHOW, KHKS/DALLAS

... more great thought leaders and sessions to be announced, soon.

Make Your Plans To Attend, Now!

If you've never attended, and you've wanted to -- stop and make your plans now for the seventh annual WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT -- presented by A&R WORLDWIDE and ALLACCESS.COM! WWRS 2017 is returning to the W HOTEL HOLLYWOOD, (where WWRS began in 2010), and is set for MAY 3rd, 4th, 5th, 2017. Registration is $475 and many of your peers are all set to attend.

Groups of 5 or more from the same company or cluster save 15% when registering at the same time!

And once again, DELTA is our travel partner offering up to a 10% discount on airfare to WWRS 2017 when you use travel code NMNYN.

If you missed WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2016, here are some thoughts from those who were there! 

WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT is the "United Nations Of Radio" attended by hundreds of U.S. and international radio, record, social and digital executives and thought leaders over the past six years. WWRS 2017 will continue to highlight some of the most important issues and opportunities impacting radio today and tomorrow, as well as focus on the future of this crucial broadcast medium that is the world's largest communicator of music and sound. 

Among the topics being addressed are: 

• Advances in digital audience measurement
• New ways to reach and engage with audiences
• Innovative ways to build new revenue streams
• Programmatic sales efforts
• Winning with new music discovery & innovative programming
• Radio and its evolution in the digital age of the auto industry
• Social/digital media integration and evolution
• Creative programming
• Mobilization - using mobile for all touch points of listener engagement
• Talent & radio brand development
• Podcasting
• Spoken word
• New business models
• Radio's influence across multiple platforms
• New technology/platforms
• Streaming advances
• Radio device development 
• And Much More!

WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2017 will kick off on WEDNESDAY, MAY 3rd with a fantastic Opening Reception event that same evening at the HARD ROCK HOLLYWOOD. During WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2016's kick-off party, DAYA, JACOB WHITESIDES AND SHAWN HOOK performed. The 2017 program will again aim to showcase even more global radio music stars!

And on THURSDAY, MAY 4th and FRIDAY, MAY 5th WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2017 will have two full days of cutting edge meetings from thought leader from the US and around the world, with two exciting luncheons and two more evening cocktail parties followed by more live entertainment featuring some big name acts as well as the crème de la crème of emerging U.S. and international talent. 

And for the second year, WWRS 2017 along with ALL ACCESS, DMR/INTERACTIVE and A&R WORLDWIDE are proud to support the RIA'S RISING STARS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM to honor the memory of ALL ACCESS co-founder RIA DENVER and give deserving broadcast school students the chance to attend WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2017 on MAY 3rd, 4th, 5th at the W HOTEL in HOLLYWOOD.  More details on how you can contribute, and sign up to be considered for a scholarship, soon.

As radio evolves from terrestrial to online, satellite, digital and mobile, WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT will continue to offer the insight that will keep attendees on the pulse of the future of this essential broadcast medium and provide the chance to interact with those driving the future ideology and content of radio. 

WWRS 2017 presents a great opportunity to look around and see who the best speakers, thought leaders, and experts are that will be willing to bring their unparalleled knowledge of radio, digital technologies and successful, innovative methods of ways of driving new revenue streams so that radio executives around the world can tap into these rapidly evolving new frontiers of interaction and communication with their audiences both in broadcast and in emerging digital platforms. 

As always, WWRS 2017 will not be a rehash of the same old stuff you've seen elsewhere. WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2017 will be another example of must-see, must-hear, must-attend content. We so look forward to your presence at WWRS 2017."

Groups of 5 or more from the same company or cluster save 15% when registering at the same time!

If you missed WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2016, here are some thoughts from those who were there! 

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