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CVS, the pharmacy that seems to be just about everywhere, is now among the top brands using Radio to reach new and returning customers. It's thanks to a new campaign that puts the chain well above its category peers in the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Radio report.

T-Mobile is no longer alone as a brand in the wireless services category that's decided to invest in Spot Cable to reach consumers. Verizon is now on the Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report, thanks to a new campaign that began last week.

AdLarge's newest sales exec began his career as a media buyer at what is now OMD Chicago and moved into ad sales at A&E and Rolling Stone magazine before landing in audio. He has held sales executive positions at Premiere Radio Networks, Westwood One, MJI Broadcasting, Univision, and Spanish Broadcasting System.

Accelerate Local, designed by the Local Media Association to reinvent business models for news, has launched "The TV Membership Project" as part of an effort to study and develop new modes of consumer engagement and revenue via membership and other direct to consumer models for local television broadcasters.

Want to avoid a lost of pain, frustration and unmet sales quotas? Follow this advice from expert sales trainer Barrett Riddleberger. It could prevent your organization from hiring yet another sales candidate incapable of doing the one task that they should be the best at: Sell.

A white label creative and marketing services firm has been selected to help bring additional revenue opportunities to Kentucky Broadcasters Association member stations. 

OK, it's Veterans Day. The holiday shopping season has "officially" started ... right? Well, just go into your closest Macy's. There are holiday decorations and sales galore. To help bring in even more customers, Macy's took to spot radio to lure the early bird Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa shoppers.

Dominant. That's the only word we can come with to best describe how strong GEICO is with respect to its spot-on devotion to cable TV viewers. It dwarfed all other brands in the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report.

So, Amazon is out to crush broadcast and cable TV with its rapidly rebuilding Amazon Studios and hits such as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? If so, don't tell its media buyers and planners. Amazon.com just invested in a big spot TV and spot cable campaign, just in time for the holidays.

An expanded relationship with Envision Networks means that, for 2020, audio content provider has decided to move all of its products and inventory to Gen Media Partners' SBG. It involves more than over 80 products, and SBG founder/President Jason Bailey is looking forward to a positive impact on Sun Select's RADAR numbers.

How diverse is your media organization ... or your best clients? "There has been little headway made in improving ethnic diversity," a new report from the ANA's Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM) states.

Digital audio solutions platform Targetspot has officially removed the curtain on a new partnership with location intelligence and measurement company Cuebiq — a pact designed to bring new offline attribution capabilities to digital audio.

As any casual observer of U.S. ad trends could conclude, online/digital and broadcast and spot cable dollars -- fueled by local digital's rapid rise and a healthy political environment -- will undoubtedly grow in 2020. BIA Advisory Services has now put a percentage on the size of that anticipated growth.

The partnership will make Verance insights available to AdBridge clients on both the buy and sell side, providing measurement tools that Verance says "enhance advanced advertising opportunities for programmers and advertisers while improving the viewer experience."

Americans may be wailing "No, No, ñooooo!" to the "Ho-Ho-Ho" already on display from Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J. to Hermosa Beach, Calif., but that hasn't stopped retailers from jumping past Thanksgiving by ushering in the Christmas holiday season via spots shown on broadcast television.