February 21st, 2019
NEW YORK, NY February 7, 2019- Sun Broadcast Group (SBG) announced today that they have entered into an exclusive sales and affiliate partnership with Retro Pop Reunion and Host Joe Cortez. Each week, Cortez plays the biggest hits of the music video era while mixing in requests, flashbacks and great stories behind the songs. With … read more
January 28th, 2019
NEW YORK, NY January 28, 2019 – Sun Broadcast Group (SBG) announced today that they have entered into a sales and affiliate partnership with Throwback Nation Radio. With Tony Lorino at the mic, TNR features the biggest Pop, Rock, and Dance hits from the 80’s and early 90’s—7 nights a week from 7pm to midnight. … read more
August 18th, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, NY August 18, 2017- Sun Broadcast Group has hit a milestone of 500,000 Shazams on their exclusive Shazam for Radio platform over the past 12 months. These half million Shazams translate to 700+ experiences, 200 markets, and roughly 10 million impressions outside of the Shazam app itself. Over the last … read more
June 5th, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, NY, June 5, 2017- Last week Sabra teamed up with 92.3AMP Radio in New York to launch its first fully interactive Shazam-enabled campaign with Sun Broadcast Group’s Shazam For Radio platform. This campaign marked the first of its kind in the New York DMA. As an “unofficial start to summer,” … read more
April 4th, 2017
[Inside Radio] Spring must have really sprung. Home Depot returns to the top of the list of national radio advertisers for the week of March 27-April 2—a position it occupied for much of the spring and summer of 2016. The home improvement retailer committed to 66,922 spots, according to Media Monitors, enough to catapult it … read more
January 3rd, 2017
[Inside Radio] There have been times when, after the flurry of a presidential campaign, a calm falls upon the once-busy news/talk format. Those times are decidedly not ready for a repeat. A forecast view of programming trends in the coming year indicates news/talk will continue to be popular; CHR, also a bright leader in 2016, … read more
December 12th, 2016
[From Inside Radio] While it’s no secret that the holiday season is primetime for retailers, a new analysis from Nielsen points out just how essential fourth-quarter is for advertising. Almost 30% of total annual retail spend comes in Q4, with $71.6 trillion spent over the last five years on advertising for the top 20 product … read more
November 17th, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, NY November 17, 2016 – Sun Broadcast Group hit another milestone today as the company turns EIGHT YEARS OLD. The national radio network, headquartered in New York City and Boca Raton is home of the popular Shazam for Radio, the NCAA Game of the Week with SportsUSA and Sun Latino, the largest … read more
October 7th, 2016
[Radio Ink] The radio industry has pretty much come to the realization that 100% ownership of the automobile dashboard is ancient history. The challenge has turned to how radio competes with everything coming available to the consumer on that all-important real estate. This was a very hot topic at The Radio Show in Nashville last … read more
October 6th, 2016
The impending arrival of Hurricane Matthew across the southeast has stations gearing up for the impact of the strongest Atlantic storm to hit the U.S. since 2005. While listeners have become accustomed to fueling up their car and hitting the local supermarket, the new way to listen to FM on a smartphone has some saying … read more