Headlines

ESPN 630 AM (WSBN-AM) is the Washington, D. C. affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. The multiyear agreement keeps the MLB team on the capital airwaves, also the home of The Washington Football team and University of Virginia sports.

BENMARadio co-founder Mark Margulies will host a webinar called 6 Seconds That Will Make or Break Your Radio Ad, to IBA members Thursday April 1st at 2:00 Eastern.

The 11AM Eastern webinar will focus on Borrell's newly issued local advertising forecast. The data discussed will include: total local advertising for 2021, which new medium will pass paid search and which markets will see the largest increase in dollars. REGISTER

YEA Networks and Townsquare have signed a new deal that will keep The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show on 10 of the company's radio stations. Kraddick passed away back in 2013 and the show has continued on successfully.

Speaking proposals are now being accepted for the 2021 NAB Show being held LIVE in Las Vegas held October 9–13. Click HERE for all the details on how to submit. The deadline is April 30, 2021.

Lower Cape Communications’ station WOMR is celebrating 39 years on-air. The Provincetown, MA community radio station celebration is low key this year because COVID concerns.

Benztown will be hosting a weekly discussion on topical audio production issues. Benztown’s Clubhouse Room is called Radio Imaging and Production and the first get-together is Thursday March 25.

FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks and NTIA’s Minority Broadband Initiative for the Women of Color and the Technological Frontier webinar is set for 1 PM today. The webinar will feature women of color thought leaders in broadband research who will discuss how the digital divide impacts marginalized communities.

Continuing with our series to show BIA’s Radio Share of Wallet analysis, let’s now look at BIA’s estimates for markets 91-100 for 2021. BIA’s new 2021 U.S. Local Ad Forecast estimates that revenue across all media will reach $137.5 billion and that radio’s share will grow to 9.2 percent.

When Premiere Networks sent out a press release Monday announcing that WBOB-AM/FM in Jacksonville would be adding the Rush Limbaugh Show, we checked in with Premiere to make sure it wasn't a mistake being that Rush recently passed away. Here's what they told us.