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After writing about the 50th birthday at Connoisseur’s WPLR in Connecticut, the walls inside the Radio Ink ZOOM room were reverberating with wonder. How many active radio stations are there today that have carried the same format for 50 years or longer?

Pro wrestling podcaster Conrad Thompson is in the lineup for the upcoming How to Make Real Money Podcasting conference. The Radio Ink virtual conference is set for July 13-15.

It's not all peaches and roses in Washington, DC. Yesterday we reported about the firing up of the new Local Radio Freedom Act the NAB is pushing. It didn't take long for the musicFIRST coalition to punch back.

With revenue of $201.7 million in the first quarter of 2021, Cumulus saw its revenue decrease 11.5% from 2020, which had revenue of $228 million. Podcasting was the bright spot, increasing 35%, although the exact dollar figure was not released.

NAB CEO Gordon Smith interviewed three White House correspondents for an online session called "Covering the Biden White House." The conversation focused on the differences between the Trump and Biden administrations’ relationship with the press and other topics. Watch it HERE.

Audacy has put together its lineup for the IAB NewFronts and IAB Podcast Upfronts. The company will show off its scaled multi-platform audio content and entertainment offerings.

The iHeartMedia Private Marketplace allows brand advertisers to create their own unique, tailored marketplaces made up of their specific audience targets and pricing, to dial up and down across each year as their marketing needs require.

77 members of the House of Representatives and eight Senators have joined together to introduce resolutions in the new Congress opposing "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local broadcast radio stations. Many of them praised local radio in their hometown markets. 

The company was looking at strong comps in January and February of 2020 before the bottom fell out in March when the pandemic grabbed the American way of life by the throat. In January and February revenue was down 21% compared to 2020. March revenue was up 3.9% over March 2020.

It's a strange economy out there. As Americans edge closer to a post-pandemic normal way of life, automobiles sales are strong, gas prices are rising, restaurants are struggling to find workers and the government is running a campaign to get people to take the vaccine.