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In honor of the invention of radio and the 1920 first-ever broadcast of KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh, New York Festivals Radio Awards will celebrate 100 years of Radio while bringing together global storytellers from both the Radio and TV & Film industry on the same stage.

A pay-to-listen service rooted in satellite radio seeking to gain app users is offering up a "LinkedIn Audio Event" with "expert insights on audio advertising that wins." It's the latest swipe at broadcast radio from SiriusXM, ahead of the 2024 Cannes Lions ad awards in France.

A 10kw daytimer serving Spanish-speaking Latinos behind the "Redwood Curtain" didn't paid its Commission regulatory fees in full during 2007 or 2008. It also apparently failed to pay its FCC fees in full between 2012 and 2016. Now, the FCC has ordered the licensee to pay up.

Is the home of Howard Stern and a collection of subscription-based audio offerings including curated channels from John Mayer and Kelly Clarkson duping customers into paying a "royalty fee" they're unaware of? An Oregon Federal District Court judge will rule on the matter.

The future of brands, including radio brands, is in the hands of young Hispanic consumers. Understanding how they use radio, digital, and social media is critical to anyone who wants to grow and expand market share in the 21st century. A Hispanic Radio Conference session moderated by SBS/Miami GSM Carolina Patiño is poised to inspire, and offer ideas on how to connect with Latinx.

He's a radio industry veteran who has been with the former Radio One for 20 years. Today he's Urban One's Radio Division CEO, and Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink reports first that David Kantor will retire at the end of 2024. Kantor oversees the company's 57 stations and its Reach Media unit.

In July 2017, a Chicago-based entity led by Richard Bonick quietly acquired a FM translator licensed to Mt. Holly, N.J., from Rowan College at Burlington County for $125,000. Now, Bonick's Spectrum Development Group is cashing out in a big way with the sale of the facility.

Salem Media Group shares may trade with an average volume of just 27,574 shares, but its value is one indicator of how the company focused on Christian-themed and conservative secular spoken word audio content is performing from a fiscal perspective. How is that performance?

A Danville, Illinois-based radio broadcasting company is moving forward with an initiative designed to connect Central Illinois students, teachers and parents for the balance of the school year. The Louise Neuhoff Educational Access Project, named in honor of the company co-founder, will provide educators daily access to stations in communities served by Neuhoff Media.

For 25 years, she was a local media fixture in Salt Lake City, serving as Local Sales Manager of KUTV-2 under CBS ownership and in May 2011 joined iHeartMedia as Regional SVP of Sales, rising to Market President in April 2021. Now, this longtime leader is trading the Wasatch Front for Orlando.

As businesses start to reopen following weeks of restrictions designed to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, the need to share with consumers that they're open again has led many to Radio. But, are stations ready to write and produce ad copy? If not, Write Label may have a good solution, as we learn in this latest RBR+TVBR Coronavirus INFOCUS podcast from CEO Gideon Stein. LISTEN HERE

The Chris Devine-founded GeoBroadcast Solutions has formed a "national advisory board" that will play "a crucial role in advising GBS leadership on innovations and market technologies that help radio broadcasters better serve their local communities, grow revenue and expand the sustainability of audio."

A Class D AM with an FM translator serving a Missouri city known as the headquarters of the News-Press & Gazette Co. is being sold. No, NPG isn't the buyer. It's an Eagle that's set to fly high with this Classic Hits facility.

"The success of any endeavor is directly proportional to the dedication of those involved," says alternative broadcast inspection specialist Ken Benner. In this Media Information Bureau column, Benner offers what he considers to be "one classic example" of these premise. It involves a Class C1 FM serving the second-largest metropolitan area in the 49th state of the union.

We've heard the woes about local digital's wrath on the broadcast radio industry in the U.S. Now, more calls for consolidation in the absence of federal digital media regulatory policy that mirrors that for broadcast media may only get louder, given the revised 2020 local radio ad forecast BIA Advisory Services just released.