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Urban One CEO Alfred Liggins hopes to have a major investment in what would be the only black owned casino in the country. His company is one of six bidders for a new casino in Richmond and Liggins says, if they're granted the gaming license, the incoming revenue could rival Urban One's radio and TV business.

During "unprecedented work conditions," Urban One rallied in the 4th quarter of 2020 to post a better year than it had in 2019. With $11.5 million in Q4 revenue, Urban One posted a 7.3% gain, the first positive quarterly number we've seen from a radio company in a long time.

1620 AND 1180 The Zone Omaha will remain the radio home for the Kansas City Royals. The agreement covers the 2021 and 2022 seasons and gives The Zone exclusive rights to broadcast play-by-play for all home and away games.

Townsquare Media’s New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW-FM) will present the latest in a series of Town Hall broadcasts to help New Jersey deal with the ongoing pandemic. “A Year with COVID” will look back on the last year and ahead to what many hope will be a normal summer.

Fox Sports Radio has reached the 600th affiliate mark for the first time in history with the addition of Spokane’s KGA 103.5 FM/1510 AM. 103.5 The Game will debut March 19, with The Dan Patrick Show.

Spark Media has opened registration for the Spark Conference at the upcoming NRB 2021: Christian Media Conference. The faith-based podcast company will run its event June 22-24 at the conference in Texas.

WOUB Public Media, Athens, OH is offering up to $10,000 of matching money during its Spring Radio Pledge Drive. The matching dollars will be used to match contributions from new sustaining members and current members who become sustaining monthly donors.

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules to improve the way the public receives emergency alerts on their phones, TV's and radios. The Commission also adopted a Notice of Inquiry to explore the technical feasibility of delivering EAS alerts via the Internet.

(By Deborah Parenti) I’ve never met Aurora James (pictured here). In fact, I had not heard of her until she was introduced to me recently in the way so many people are these days: featured on a news program to which I was only half-listening that broke through whatever I was doing and made me sit up  and pay attention. I was glad I did. 

According to Magellan AI, which monitors how much advertisers spend on podcasts, BetterHelp spent $4.3 million in February on 386 podcasts. One of radio's favorite advertisers, GEICO, was second with $2.6 million spent on 260 mainly sports podcasts. Here are the top 5...