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| Categories | Trade magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Biweekly |
| First issue | 1992 (1992) |
| Company | Streamline Publishing |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Boynton Beach, Florida |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1064-587X |
Radio Ink is a radio broadcasting industry trade magazine owned byStreamline Publishing.Radio Ink serves the management community of theradio industry in the United States and in 43 countries worldwide. The focus of the bi-weekly magazine is radio management and operations challenges facing commercial radio broadcasters.
Each year the publication creates several annual lists, including a list of the "40 Most Powerful People in Radio" made up of a who's who of the radio industry. It also created the "Most Influential Women (MIW) in Radio" list, which was turned into a mentoring program by the women on the list who created an organization called Mentoring and Inspiring Women. Other lists include top managers, top radio programmers, top engineers, top African-American broadcasters, and[1] others.
The publication, originally namedThe Pulse of Broadcasting, was founded by broadcaster Tom Shovan and Ellek Seymour. In 1985, radio broadcasterEric Rhoads became friendly with Shovan, and met with ownerBob Sillerman to acquire the struggling magazine. Rhoads changed the name toRadio Ink because of a class-action lawsuit byTower Records — which was launching the national magazinePulse! — against all publications named "Pulse". Rhoads negotiated with Tower Records founderRuss Soloman and changed the name ofThe Pulse of Broadcasting toRadio Ink, previously the name of a gossip column in the magazine.
Radio Ink produces conferences for the radio industry, including the annual Radio Forecast conference held each fall at theHarvard Club inNew York City, which focuses on the financial state of the radio industry for the year and predictions for the coming year; the annual Hispanic Radio Conference, which focuses on the issues facing the Hispanic radio industry; the Sports Radio conference, which focuses on the sports radio industry; the Radio Ink Convergence Conference in San Jose, which focuses on digital audio, internet radio and digital technology as it relates to the radio broadcasting and internet broadcasting industry; and the annual DASH conference in Detroit, which is about audio technology on the automobile dashboard.
