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At the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference last week, Michael Bergner from the Media Brokerage firm Bergner & Company, gave the radio industry a reality check. He said the stock market is booming, businesses have never been worth so much, and none of this applies to radio.

The President of the Radio, TV & Podcasting Divisions of Streamline Publishing, Deborah Parenti, is picking up another honor from the Dayton Area Broadcasters. The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Deborah at their next Hall of Fame event. She's already a member of the Dayton Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Codcomm, owned by John Garabedian, is selling his seven Cape Cod radio stations to Steve Chessare's Coxswain Communications for $3.2 million. KALIL & CO. was the exclusive broker for this deal.

Lotus now officially owns News Radio KOMO-AM & FM, KPLZ-FM, and Talk Radio KVI 570-AM. The $18 million purchase of the stations from Sinclair was announced back in June. Richard Foreman Associates was the exclusive broker representing Sinclair.

Audio Active Group is an audio media and creative advisory group for marketers and agencies. Pierre Bouvard, Cumulus/Westwood One Chief Insights Officer will head up AAG that will offer insights, media planning creative and measurement services.

Popular long-time Orlando host Russ Rollins from iHeartMedia's Monsters in The Morning on WTKS-FM has been hospitalized with COVID after having to cut his vacation short when he started having breathing problems. Rollins is fully vaccinated and had been working from home.

The strategic partnership between Black Information Network and Real Times Media will focus on distribution of news that is important to the Black community across a variety of platforms. RTM, based in Detroit, focuses on media, marketing and content for urban audiences.

Newsmax is syndicating 'The Rob Carson Show' heard on WCBM 680 in Baltimore. Carson, longtime writer and producer of political satire for Rush Limbaugh, airs 12n to 3pm weekdays.

News Talk 580/105.9 KMJ has helped to raise more than a half-million dollars for the Central California Foodbank. The Cumulus station partnered with local agriculture company Gar Bennett for the 2021 Feeding Families Fund Drive.

102.5 WDVE14th annual 'DVE Rocks for Children’s Radiothon' raised a record-breaking amount of over $1.06 million in support of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. For the past 14 years, the Radiothon has raised over $8.7 million to benefit UPMC Children’s.