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Records truly is his middle name. Soon, John Landecker can also boast that he truly is a Hall of Fame inductee. The NAB will induct the longtime former "Musicradio 89 WLS" voice into its broadcasting hall on April 20 as part of the 2020 NAB Show. Landecker's career also includes a stint at another Chicago station, WJMK-FM, and stops in Cleveland, Toronto and Philadelphia.

On Monday, Feb. 3, YouTube and Google parent Alphabet disclosed for the first time specific revenue figures for the world's most popular on-demand video hub. For fiscal 2019, the revenue for YouTube advertising was in the billions. It was slightly more than what U.S. radio broadcasters have likely attracted during the same period.

Exactly two years after former Top 40 KDND-FM "107.9 The End" signed off the air, with programming moving to another Entercom station serving Sacramento, the FCC has provided a "clarification" concerning a Construction Permit being offered in Auction 106 that will bring a brand-new radio station to the facility formerly used by KDND.

Thursday marked another gloomy trading session for Salem Media Group, which will see company representatives pitching itself to investors later this month at Noble Capital Markets’ Sixteenth Annual Institutional Investor Conference in Hollywood, Fla. SALM is trading at its lowest price since the summer of 2009.

The FCC believes satellite companies don’t need the entire C-band to provide the services to broadcast radio and TV stations they are providing today. That's why knowing what is in draft rules released Thursday by Chairman Ajit Pai that would reform the use of the C-band could be essential to your business.

Radio’s digital ad revenue blasted through the billion-dollar plateau for the first time, now accounting for 10% of total advertising revenue for the industry, according to research released today by the Radio Advertising Bureau and ad-tracking firm Borrell Associates. 

The Hispanic Radio Conference is pleased to present a session that will dive into the details, prep you on the prospects, and share how to best take advantage of the opportunities for maximizing the potential windfall the 2020 election could offer. Here are all of the details — along with registration information for this late March event in Miami.

Consider it a "refi" -- on much bigger terms. The nation's No. 1 owner of radio stations on Monday prepaid $150 million of debt before it needed to, with cash on hand. To do it, it is replacing its lender in a move that significantly trims its annual interest on the billions of dollars of debt iHeart still holds post-bankruptcy.

The Cleveland-based affiliate relations company founded by Danno Wolkoff and Laura Orkin has been purchased by a fast-growing Gen Media Partners-owned national radio network with offices in New York, Boston and South Florida. With the acquisition, Wolkoff and Orkin will become stockholders and join the C-Suite at Sun Broadcast Group.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this ... um ... this day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me, because I've known this moment was coming in the program today." With that, Rush Limbaugh -- perhaps the most famous Talk radio host of the last 30 years -- told his audience, and the world, that he has been diagnosed with "advanced lung cancer."

A Notice of Violation has been issued to a Townsquare-owned station it has owned since 2017. What happened? It may lead some to say "Whoops" instead "Whoopee."

From the office of the Chairman of the FCC to the Please Stop! on Route 9 in Parkville, Mo., fans of Kansas City Chiefs pro football team are reveling in their first Super Bowl championship in 50 years. Local radio largely did its part, with stations across the dial offering various choices in locally originated celebratory programming.

In the final weeks of 2019, LBI Media prepared to enter the next decade with new blood in its executive programming and sales ranks, reporting to a new Chief Executive. Now, the company has shed any ties to its founders, José and Lenard Liberman, by changing its name. 

A pair of radio broadcasting companies that have seen their shares on Wall Street largely underperform in recent months each enjoyed strong trading sessions on Monday. While Entercom Communications enjoyed a strong session, it is Beasley Broadcast Group's late-session surge that deserves close attention.

As of Saturday, a popular Rocker presently using an FM translator to reach Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wisc., will be getting a big boost. It's thanks to a just-reached Time Brokerage Agreement between Twin Ports Radio and the publicly traded multimedia company headed by CEO Bill Wilson.