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The satellite radio service on Wednesday unveiled a new subscription package built for college students that slashes its monthly fee to a third of the cost of the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

According to the statisticians at National Day Calendar, August 20 is, in fact, National Radio Day. The fact that it took a Tweet from Fred Jacobs for us to know this is yet another pathetic F on the Radio Industry Report Card.

On this National Radio Day, we turn to a city to the north of Houston, where a woman heard each midday on a Country station is being saluted for her 68 years on the air. When she's not behind the mic, this 2010 Texas Radio Hall of Fame inductee serves as a station AE.

In late March, Cox Media Group submitted an application for a CP for a commercial broadcast station in one of the nation's biggest markets. On August 20 -- National Radio Day -- a "big change" was made at this FM: "A new, stronger signal" arrived.

Since November 2003, a Class D daytime-only AM with a booming signal has been owned by Fred Eychaner's Newsweb Radio Co. It has had various formats and most recently aired brokered religious programming. In July, that disappeared. Why? The station's tower site is being sold.

On May 31, 2019, a college-owned radio station in suburban Kansas City fell silent, as programming moved to an FM translator with near city-grade coverage. The facility's future has now come into focus, and it involves a return to secular programming -- and the sounds of Bach and Brahms.

For the third time in 2019, Immaculate Heart Radio is picking up properties from the publicly traded company led by Ed Atsinger III. While we knew the markets IHR is getting for its "Relevant Radio," it is now known what the properties are.

While Las Vegas may be known as "Sin City," ever-growing Southern Nevada is full of houses of worship and plenty of reverent Silver State residents. As such, Educational Media Foundation feels confident enough that it's not rolling the dice by converting a pair of affiliates to O&Os.

A host of media companies were swept up in Wall Street's big Wednesday selloff, a response to news that the short-term economic outlook is now gloomier than long-term visibility. Yet, iHeartMedia shares were up. Perhaps that's good news, since iHeart's CEO says a recession could benefit radio.

Its stock is trading near a five-year low. Net revenue in Q2 was flat, while net income rose slightly. For Simply Wall St., however, the biggest eye-catcher is that Saga Communications "does use debt in its business." Is this debt a concern for shareholders? That's exactly what Simply Wall St. seeks to answer.

From suggesting the name "Radio Ink" to serving as Publisher of R&R, Dwight Case had a pulse on the radio industry like few others, thanks to roles running RKO Radio and founding the company that eventually became Westwood One. Case died Friday in Los Angeles.

As anticipated, Nielsen Audio has moved forward with the launch of continuous diary measurement -- a move designed to provide advertisers and radio broadcasting companies with more reliable data based on what diarykeepers state on paper they are listening to when seeking audio entertainment and information.

In early 2018, Samsung committed to turning on FM chips across its headset units. Now, a major technological advancement coming with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus is poised to bring a small headache to radio ... or, more specifically, radio ratings source Nielsen Audio.

It's interesting what can drive the ups and downs of a publicly traded stock. On Thursday evening, a Barron's associate editor said iHeartMedia stock was "poised to climb" after bankruptcy and its upcoming Q2 earnings report. Behold, IHRT was up by nearly 5% in Monday's trading.

He's not even a real person, yet iHeartMedia has been devoting a lot of time -- and dollars -- to promoting this popular figure's recently launched podcast. Radio stations are a big part of the audience-building outreach efforts, the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Radio report shows.