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In part four of our series on the future of radio, broker Ed Henson checks in to give us his thoughts on where radio is headed following the emergence of cleaner balance sheets from iHeart and Cumulus. And he says there are many more great companies out there that we could be focusing on.

(By Bob McCurdy) Maybe it’s time for the conventional wisdom of automatically equating “audience rank” with “quality” and the ingrained habit of “top-down” buying to be kicked to the curb.

(By Stephanie Winans) Station management has made a change to your show — reducing the length of the show, moving your daypart, or a change to the co-host lineup. The decision was out of your control and you’re not necessarily excited about the change. How do you respond on social media?

(By Larry Rosin) Over the 30 years since Randy Owen of the country group Alabama and others conceived of Country Cares, the radio industry’s efforts on behalf of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have raised funds approaching a staggering one billion dollars.

The team from SOS Radio 90.5/KSOS celebrated the reopening of the federal government on Monday, January 28, by feeding 700+ Las Vegas TSA workers. The TSA team at Las Vegas McCarran Airport worked faithfully for 35 days straight, not knowing when the paychecks would arrive.

That's never really been the philosophy of the only CEO Saga has ever had, Ed Christian. He's always been slow and steady at growing his company. Broker Michael Bergner has a different take on the future of the company in part three in our series on the future of radio.

Where's Dan Vallie when you need him? Jacob Vitali is the president of WJJW FM, MCLA’s radio station. He told WAMC Radio that he's incensed that the college decided to drop its Radio Practicum course this semester at the Massachusetts College Of Liberal Arts.

Irving Azoff’s Global Music Rights and the Radio Music Licensing Committee are still going at it. This week we found out that the RMLC accused GMR of bullying tactics and Entercom is in the middle of this particular firestorm.

The organization says it distributed more performance royalties to artists and rights owners than in any other year of its 15-year existence – a record $953 million. The big 2018 number was buoyed by a strong fourth quarter, where $345 million was doled out.

About a month ago Urban One flipped Praise 107.9 (Gospel) to Classix 107.9 (R&B) and listeners in Philadelphia are not happy about it. The Tribune reports that local executives, artists and hosts held a meeting to come up with ideas to save Gospel music in their hometown