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On Tuesday April 6 at 11:30 AM Eastern a national conference call will be held for all stations participating in the 2nd annual Radio Cares: Feeding America Radiothon. Stations have until April 13th to sign up HERE. The radiothon is being held April 14th.

NAB Show will present “From Podcast to Broadcast,” a main-stage keynote session featuring Alex, Inc. executive producers Zach Braff and Matt Tarses, the creators of the hit podcast Up and Vanished, and others. The session will take place Tuesday, April 10 at 9:30 a.m. in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

(By Mike McVay) This past week several new talk radio programs launched or were announced to be launched soon. It made me reflect on the best practices I’ve observed or utilized over the years in launching new shows, as well as failures due to poor execution of those practices.

What motivates an advertiser to go from zero to $100M in three years — and keep their foot on the gas during a pandemic? Nielsen's Brad Kelly will get the answer to that question when he interviews P&G's John Fix at Forecast Live next month. 

The big question is who would want to purchase a ratings firm. A Wednesday morning press release states that all options are now on the table regarding the company, "including continuing to operate as a public, independent company; a separation of either Nielsen's Buy or Watch segment; or a sale of the company." Read the full release HERE.

As strong spring storms whipped across the United States this week, two West Virginia AM broadcast towers were toppled by beyond-gale-force winds reaching 90mph on Wednesday night. Both towers belong to WCHS, a news station serving the Charleston area.

WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, is looking for entries to the annual Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. The Schorr Prize is a coveted honor awarded to a public media journalist age 35 or younger whose work stands out for its ambition, storytelling craft and reporting rigor.

(By Rick Fink) Most coaching and sales training programs highlight the importance of empathy in establishing solid customer relationships, but as management guru Peter Drucker says, "You can't manage what you can't measure.” So how do you measure it?

That nugget of information was detailed in an SEC filing by Urban One on Friday. Last week Emmis and Urban One announced that Alfred Liggins' company would be purchasing the last remaining radio cluster from Emmis, which has been exiting the radio business over the last several years.

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...