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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.

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.