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Call for entry for the Radio Mercury Awards will open June 7. This is the 30th anniversary of the awards that celebrate creative excellence in radio and audio.

It should according to Doug Hyde, Senior Director, National & Local Insights at Westwood One/Cumulus. Hyde has accumulated data that he says shows that streaming now represents 10% of radio listening.

(By Ken Benson) Lee Abrams, has spent 5 decades in the trenches reinventing Radio, TV News and Print. What advice does the creator of the Album Rock format and the designer of XM satellite programming have for Radio in 2021? Let's find out...

25 more House Reps and 6 more Senators have signed onto the Local Radio Freedom Act, a resolution preventing any new taxes or royalties imposed on radio. 112 House members and 14 Senators now support the resolution. Here are the lawmakers recently added...

New York Public Media has fired Bob Garfield, co-host of On The Media, as a "result of a pattern of behavior that violated NYPR's anti-bullying policy," according to a statement.

Not according to the NAB, which stated pure-play streamers are not “well-positioned to participate in the existing EAS ecosystem." The NAB has requested the FCC report to Congress that enabling EAS alerts to consumers through the Internet would be too complex and infeasible. Read the comments HERE.

Now with over 400 stations carrying Bloomberg Radio, the business and consumer news programming has seen a 25% growth rate since partnering with Key Networks back in October of 2020.

Reachout Radio, the closed-circuit radio broadcast that provides access to daily newspapers and magazines for people who are unable to read standard print, will come to an end after three decades of service.

Jobs heavyweight Indeed has returned to the top of the Media Monitors list. Progressive is at number two.

Radio One Houston has re-launched KROI Praise 92.1 / KMJQ Praise 102.1 HD2. The re-launch includes a new and improved HD signal, and simulcasting on Praise 102.1 HD2.