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Now as the owner of radio's largest radio company not in bankruptcy, Entercom CEO David Field is once again speaking out to defend the entire industry. This is not something new for Field. He's been one of radio's biggest, loudest cheerleaders for years.

A fourth extension to the negotiations was announced Wednesday morning, as iHeart and lenders continue day-to-day negotiations to restructure iHeart's $20 billion of debt. This latest extension was the second 24-hour extension. It expires at 11:59 tonight. (This story was updated at 7:35 a.m. Wednesday morning.

That's according to the 2018 Infinite Dial, presented by Edison Research and Triton Digital, now in its 20th year of providing research on digital audio, social media, smart speakers, and podcast consumption. The latest survey says 82% (12 plus) of the population continue to listen to radio in the automobile, despite the onslaught of a tremendous amount of competition.

Part of Radio Ink's mission is to find radio's future stars and bring you their stories. Brandy “Beasy Baybie” Henshaw is the afternoon host on Alpha Media's Hot 103.9/93.9 in Columbia, SC. She's also featured in the upcoming Radio Ink issue "Future African American Leaders in Radio," which starts mailing across the country on March 19.

Some iHeart lenders and noteholders received a term sheet for a restructuring from Liberty Media. The proposal includes an investment of $1.159 billion from Liberty and has iHeart filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Liberty, which owns SiriusXM, recently made a major investment in Pandora. iHeart has been trying to restructure over $20 Billion in debt for years now.

Does the radio industry take creative seriously enough to help clients succeed? Why do many advertising agencies lack the desire to spend time on radio creative, caring mostly about a television commercial that takes so much more time to produce and costs so much more than radio? Why do radio stations allow awful-sounding advertisers to record their own commercials? We turned to a very successful creative services company to try to find the answers.

Alpha Media's West Palm Beach operation is about 30 minutes up the road from where the Florida school shooting took place last week. Alpha's moniker is live and local so the radio stations jumped right into action with their News-Talk station taking the lead.

When do radio's on-air hosts go too far? When advertisers start to cancel is certainly a red flag. Every dollar is precious these days and when advertisers start to distance themselves from a station or host, that is never a good thing. In the wake of two recent employee suspensions for insensitive comments, WEEI will be holding sensitivity training for all of its employees Friday.

(Advertiser Success Story) Necker's Jewelers opened in 1893. The owner was a German immigrant who sold the business to the parents of Dave and DJ Necker in 1952. It was then sold to Dave and DJ in 1990. There are now two Necker's Jewelry locations. The original location in DeWitt, Iowa, the other store is in Davenport, Iowa. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

You’ll see a lot of familiar faces on this list. There isn’t a lot of turnover in this group, which is one of the reasons the relationships with the record labels in Nashville and their artists has been so strong for so long. Not to mention the skills these individuals possess to make their stations the best in a format loved across the country, even with so much competition.