UPCOMING TOWN HALL WEBINARS   

Unlocking New Insights: How MFM Members can leverage our new strategic partnership with Creditsafe and how Ledger Insights can enhance business growth and minimize risk.

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Time: 1pm CT (2pm ET, 11am PT)

Overview: Creditsafe will highlight the unique benefits available to MFM members, offering no charge, best in class AR tool for improving credit risk management. Discover how leveraging this powerful tool can enhance your financial insights, streamline decision-making, and strengthen your company's financial position. Don’t miss out on learning how this collaboration can present new opportunities for your business.

Presenters: Yesinne Alvarez, Partnerships, Alliances & Data, Creditsafe US; and Leo Lichman, Partner Relationship Manager, Creditsafe US

 CPE: NONE

Key Takeaways:

• Discover how Ledger Insights can enhance your financial decision-making process.
• Learn about this exclusive benefit available to MFM members through the Creditsafe partnership.
• Understand how to use Creditsafe’s  AR tool to manage credit risk and business performance all in one platform.

Deadline to register: February 25, 2025
Instructions sent to participants on  February 25, 2025

Advertising Marijuana and other “Vices” Under the Trump/Carr FCC 

Time: 1pm CT (2pm ET, 11am PT)

Overview: An overview of the rules governing the ability of broadcasters and media companies to take ad dollars from marijuana dispensaries, casinos, E-cigarette makers, and the sellers of other “vice” products and how the election of Donald Trump as President and the naming of Brendan Carr as new FCC Chair could affect enforcement of those rules. 

Presenters: Frank Montero, Co-Managing Member, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth; and Seth Williams, Co-Managing Member, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth

    

CPE: 1 
Field of Study: SK=Specialized Knowledge/Level: Overview/Delivery Method: Group Internet-Based/No Prerequisites or Advanced Preparation

•  Explain rules governing ad dollars from vice products
• Articulate how the new administration could affect enforcement of those rules. 

• MFM & BCCA Members = $0
• Corporate Members = $0
• Non-Members = $75*   

Preparing for Engineer Transition: Why now is the time to Enlist External Resources to Keep our Stations Running

Date: Wednesday, March 26
Time: 1pm CT (2pm ET, 11am PT)

Overview: With the greying and continual retirement of the broadcast engineering workforce, combined with seemingly never-ending changes in technology and constant budget pressure, what does it look like to enlist outside support to keep your station running?

The reality is that today’s station is too complex to be maintained by one or two engineers. Modern stations require a team of subject matter experts to manage the myriad of content management, production, transmission, and digital distribution platforms in today’s environment. Many stations do not have the available budget to maintain such a team, so increasingly it makes sense to look at purchasing “fractional” services from a team that is able to deliver scaled solutions, broad industry perspective, financial efficiency. Such teams are well-positioned to facilitate implementation of cloud strategy, minimize real estate footprint, and decrease the complexity of on-premise support systems like HVAC, generators, UPS power, in addition to the broadcast technology itself.

Rob Bertrand is a partner with Inrush Broadcast Services. His career has brought him from medium-market New Jersey radio with Greater Media, to overseeing technology for all stations at CBS Radio New York, to public media at WAMU in Washington, DC, to now supporting stations nationwide as part of a “center of excellence” for broadcast engineering at Inrush Broadcast Services. He will share his perspective as a broadcast engineer familiar with working “in the trenches” at stations of these various sizes and types, what he’s learned along the way as a technology strategist, as well as his vision for what groups like Inrush are well-positioned to deliver nationally.

As the broadcast industry continues to evolve and require access to different skillsets, and as broadcast engineers continue to leave the marketplace, the time has never been more urgent for understanding this evolving business model and how your station can benefit from embracing “fractionally delivered” broadcast technology services.

Speaker: Rob Bertrand, Partner, Inrush Broadcast Services 

• Technical staffing challenges currently facing radio and television stations
• A broad understanding of the complex skillsets needed to serve the technical needs of a modern broadcast operation
• Why technology delivered at scale can be more cost-efficient, more likely to deliver best-in-class outcomes, and more reliable when supported by a centralized team.

Cost:

• MFM & BCCA Members = $0
• Corporate Members = $0
• Non-Members = $75* 

 Questions, suggestions or information: Contact [email protected]  

*Refunds and Cancellations: Requests for refunds must be received in writing via email five days prior to the webinar. No refunds will be granted after that date. For more information regarding refund, complaint, and/or program cancellation policies please contact our offices at 847/716-7000. 

Media Financial Management Association (MFM) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State Boards of Accountancy have the final authority on the acceptance of individual course for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

Complaint resolution policy: For further explanation or clarification regarding administrative policies such as cancellations and grievances, please call the MFM office at 847/716-7000. For further information regarding Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits, contact the MFM Office at 847/716-7000 or [email protected]