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Just days after iHeartMedia won a court decision with disgruntled bondholders, there's another legal issue the company has to deal with. This one comes from shareholder Gamco Asset Management. Bloomberg is reporting that Gamco is accusing the board of violating its duty to protect shareholders by moving Clear Channel Outdoor revenue to iHeartmedia.

It only took the Friends of KPLU five months but they did it. They raised $7 Million enabling the 501(c)(3) to purchase the license of the Seattle station from Pacific Lutheran University and prevent the station from being sold to the University of Washington. The last $1 million was raised through a $500K community challenge from listeners and business supporters. The money was raised five months ahead of the June 30 deadline.

The U.S. Court of Appeals chastised the FCC for not completing its 2010 quadrennial review of media ownership rules and came to the conclusion that the Commission "unreasonably delayed" action. The court directed the Commission to complete the review within six months. For further explanation on what this means to you, we turned to Broadcast Attorney John Garziglia for his expert opinion.

The decision on whether iHeartMedia is allowed to move shares of Clear Channel Outdoor to a subsidiary called Broader Media is now in the hands of a judge. Closing arguments in the week long case were heard Friday and State District Judge Cathleen Stryker is expected to make her ruling this week.

We think SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer meant that as a compliment. After quoting from a recent Jacobs Media study that showed how much time consumers spent listening to radio in their vehicles -- and how often they listened to SiriusXM -- Meyer wanted to remind investors that the satellite company's main competitor is radio, not pure-play streamers. He said, "Terrestrial radio is still the 800-pound gorilla in the room." And he said a lot more.

Last week we told you about an opinion piece writer Sonny Bunch crafted for the Washington Post demanding the radio industry start paying artists for the music it played over the airwaves. Apparently Forbes contributor Christopher Versace didn't take kindly to that demand and took up some valuable space on the Forbes website to defend radio's honor.

It's clear musicFIRST has been lobbying the mainstream media to take up its case against the radio industry. They have found a willing ally at The Washington Post. An opinion piece in The Post written by Sonny Bunch starts out with this sentence, "Every time you listen to the radio you’re partaking in the exploitation of musicians."

Bill Stakelin is a very well-known name around the radio industry. We recently spoke to Stakelin for our special feature on the 1996 Telecommunications Act. His company back then, Regent Communications, was right in the thick of the activity when the buying floodgates opened (he eventually sold to Randy Michaels). Stakelin will be featured in an upcoming issue of Radio Ink about the '96 Act. We took the opportunity during that interview to get his views on the radio industry today. Here's what he had to say.

Cumulus/Westwood One Senior VP of Content & Programming Mike McVay says KRBE Houston Program Director Leslie Whittle is a role model and a model programmer. "Leslie has been able to accomplish with one radio station what takes most operators a large cluster. She manages a highly talented morning team, is blessed with great talent all day, connects to the market, and is intuitive as to what music to play." Whittle will appear on Radio Ink's 2016 Best Program Directors in America list, which comes out on May 9.

More eyeballs have viewed our stories on this issue and more comments posted than any other story we've run over the past several years. Edison Research's report that consumers change stations on radio 22 times per commute was quickly turned into a White Paper by Pandora looking to boost its credibility with advertisers. The radio industry returned volley with several articles claiming the Edison research was flawed and providing its own data pointing out just how strong radio has been over the years and remains today. We've put it all together for you here in this story in case you've missed any of it.