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The core of the company Jeff Smuylan has run has always revolved around radio. In some form or another, Emmis as a radio company has been around for four decades. And while he shows no signs of retiring, it's clear Smulyan is steering his company away from the radio business.

In 1996 Radio Ink launched the first 40 Most Powerful People in Radio list. Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan has been on that list every year since (he's the only person to accomplish that). Smulyan was number #6 in 2000 and 2001. In 2016 he was 7th. Our 2019 list will be released on July 22. Will Smulyan still be there?

This year’s $50,000 Best of Show award was presented to Wieden + Kennedy for their Old Spice Pomade Radio campaign. Let's find out who else took home all that prize money...

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice opened a review of the nearly 80-year-old consent decrees governing how ASCAP and BMI license music. The decrees have been the solid framework that's given radio stations at least some consistency in what they pay PRO's for the right to air music from their repertoires.

If you can't beat radio, you might as well try to be more like radio. Spotify's new streamlined app is called "Stations." It gives users easy access to curated playlists and its designed to give users a more radio-like experience.

Kristen McQueary is a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. She writes about state and local politics and says she depends on local radio in Chicago. She listens to and from work, she streams radio at her home and she listens on podcasts to catch up on what she might have missed.

Those are the words of iHeart CEO Bob Pittman in a very positive report on the car radio from CBS TV. Radio Historian Donna Halper is also in the story and says, "When I was sitting in the car listening to those songs, it was the DJ that really spoke to me." The report also checks in with Cousin Brucie, now 83 years old, who's been on radio for over 50 years.

NAB CEO Gordon Smith opened up the NAB Show in Las Vegas by recognizing the loss of former Bonneville and Hubbard leader Bruce Reese. He called Reese a wonderful family man and an inspirational leader. Reese died last week at the age of 70. Then Smith went after the big tech companies.

The union has taken their contract negotiations public by issuing a press release highlighting their "disappointment" with how talks are going between Entercom and union workers in six markets. Entercom has responded.

FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly spoke at the NAB's annual State Leadership Conference Tuesday and encouraged radio executives to be active participants in the debate over how ownership rules are reformed as the Commission does a review of those rules.