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Less than 24 hours after the Recording Academy revealed that it has gained additional bipartisan support in the House of Representatives for its "Fair Pay Fair Play Act," the NAB-supported "Local Radio Freedom Act" has attracted two more backers in the lower body of Congress.

The Sea Lounge Bar & Restaurant has received positive reviews on Yelp since May, and its Jamaican and Caribbean fare seems to be a hit on the west side of Mt. Vernon, New York, just above the Bronx. Now, it's received its first violation warning. No, it's not for live roaches in a reach-in cooler that had food products. It's actually for a pirate radio station coming from the quick service eatery, and it's courtesy of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau.

Here's more evidence that single-digit growth for radio is what the industry's C-Suite executives can expect over the next five years. PwC has just released its Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2017-2021, and for the U.S. radio revenue is expected to rise from $22 billion in 2016 to $24.1 billion in 2021—reflecting a compound average growth rate of 1.9%.

An Illinois couple seeking to receive royalties for pre-1972 sound recordings they own have been thwarted in their home state from getting any dollars from the biggest owner of broadcast radio stations in the U.S.

The Media Bureau has released the comment deadline and reply comment deadline, respectively, for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the matter of the elimination of the FCC's Main Studio Rule.

A 72-year-old broadcast engineer who has worked for PMB Broadcasting and iHeartRadio stations in the Columbus, Ga., market has died following complications from his unwitting involvement in a June 3 high-speed car chase in the neighboring city of Phenix City, Ala.

The nation's No. 2 radio broadcasting company by number of stations on Monday adopted a rights agreement that, as it states in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is "designed to protect the company’s substantial net operating loss carryforwards in order to preserve [its] long-term value and maintain the integrity of the company’s ongoing restructuring process."

The financial services category has much to gain from increased marketing efforts to the nation's media consumers. One credit card company, in particular, significantly boosted their number of commercials aired on the radio stations tracked by Media Monitors for the week ending June 4, 2017.

Salem Media Group's Board of Directors late Thursday declared a cash distribution for Q2 2017. The news was met positively among shareholders, with the conservative talk and Christian-themed media company's shares up 5 cents in Friday's trading.

Creative featuring "fresh, top-of-mind execution" is what led The Richards Group to earn the $50,000 Best of Show award at the 2017 Radio Mercury Awards, held Thursday night at Stage 48 in midtown Manhattan.

The soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders have selected their team's official broadcast partners, and an AM and FM in Beasley's Southern Nevada station group join KVVU-5 in grabbing those honors from the National Football League team set to relocate from Oakland, Calif.

The Commission has taken the next step in keeping AM radio stations fiscally healthy by opening an auction filing window to allow the licensees of Class C and D AMs that didn't participate in either of the 2016 modification windows to file applications that would create a new FM translator.

The CEOs of the largest advertising media rep firm in the nation and one of the world's largest brand experience agencies are teaming up to co-chair Radio's Financial Summit—Forecast 2018. The respected and influential annual financial conference is scheduled for November 15 at the Harvard Club in New York City.

Joe Wade Formicola, who was 68 years old, became famous for hosting mornings at Country WWWW (W4) in Detroit in the 1980s and from 2010-2015 hosted the afternoon drive slot on Westwood One's Mainstream Country format. Most recently, he programmed a Talk station in Raleigh for Curtis Media and was associated with Local Radio Networks.

Consider this a warning: An AM radio station in Coolidge, Ariz., has run afoul of the Commission's rules on tower fences, improper transmitter power, staffing, and the absence of EAS logs. It has 20 days to explain itself, and a "NAL" could be on the way to the station's owner. Its the second warning in a month for the company.