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All week long Radio Ink will be checking in with independent operators to get an early look at radio's revenue performance in the third quarter. Today, Seven Mountains COO Jim Loftus.

In our final installment in our series on local ad revenue we talk with Ron Cohen from CRC Broadcasting in Arizona. The company owns three stations in Arizona and California.

Boston, New Jersey, and Philadelphia were Beasley's top-performing clusters in the second quarter. National revenue increased nearly 10% and digital revenue is now 7.4% of Beasley's total revenue. A year earlier digital made up 6.5% of total revenue.

Kim Guthrie will become CEO of the Cox Media Group for the private equity fund that purchased the Cox Radio stations back in June. The new company Guthrie will be leading will include TV, Radio, CoxReps and GAMUT.

Those are the words of Mitch Russo, founder of ResultsBreakthrough.com, and former CEO of the Tony Robbins & Chet Holmes Business Breakthrough. On Tuesday, we highlighted Russo's column in Forbes where he described how radio helped build his business with Tony Robbins. Today, we have an audio interview with Russo.

This is an amazing story. It's a successful business owner telling radio's success story - and not a radio executive. Mitch Russo is the founder of ResultsBreakthrough.com and the former CEO of the Tony Robbins & Chet Holmes Business Breakthrough.

iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman is one of the Most Powerful People in Radio. He has been since joining the radio industry in late 2010. And, he's been on Radio Ink's 40 Most Powerful People in Radio list since 2011. Our 2019 list is out. Here's a portion of our interview with Pittman in that issue.

According to Sports Business Daily the choice to sit out his show Monday was Dan Le Batard's because the host was not in the right frame of mind to go on the air. The publication is also reporting that ESPN is mulling over whether or not to suspend Le Batard for crossing the line into politics.

Historically, radio has been an industry dominated by men. Ownership, management, and on-air talent are all areas where the male prevails. Two Central Michigan University Professors have started a conversation about women breaking barriers.

Two days ago Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw announced he was leading a management buyout of Perot Holdings, which invested in his company four years ago. Yesterday Radio Ink dug deeper into the story with Warshaw who believes the deal is good news for the entire radio industry.