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Digital Sound & Video offers custom imaging production at its state-of-the-art studios in Ormond Beach, FL, using fully licensed libraries and sound effects. Clients include iHeartMedia, Entercom, Alpha, SummitMedia, and Saga. Sun & Fun Media will now be repping the company.

Alpha Media Alaska brought home four Goldie Awards from the Alaska Broadcasters. Here are the full details...

Broadcast associations from every state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonweath of Puerto Rico, are urging Congress to pass the “PIRATE” Act ahead of the so-called “lame duck” session, beginning January 3, whereby the Republicans will control the Senate and the Democrats the House.

From the opening session on radio’s financial future hosted by Marci Ryvicker, to the closing discussion with Bob Pittman and David Field, Radio Ink’s Forecast 2019 event was our best so far, and we’ve been doing this for 16 years now.

Is flat to slightly up or slightly down still the norm for radio? That’s been radio's revenue reality for years now -- even as the economy booms, digital revenue explodes and podcasting revenue lurks.

Unsurprisingly, iHeart CEO Bob Pittman remains in place as Chairman as iHeartMedia names the members of its post-Chapter 11 board of directors. President/COO/CFO Rich Bressler is also a member of the new board.

And Hubbard is the buyer of Alpha’s six stations on the east coast of Florida. That puts Hubbard over the 50-station mark (54) covering nine states.

So said former Greater Media CEO Peter Smyth on Wednesday as he received Radio Ink's Lifetime Leadership Award at Forecast 2019 in New York. Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads (l) and Publisher Deborah Parenti are seen here presenting Smith with the award.

The topic of the latest Hispanic Radio Podcast, hosted by RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam Jacobson, is one that he never thought he'd still be discussing some 20 years after it emerged as one of the most explosive issues facing the radio industry: minority discounts and media.

Cumulus says it’s launching a program that will guarantee local advertisers a minimum number of Engaged Potential Customers -- listeners who have contacted the business as a result of the media campaign the local radio station ran which must include radio and digital.