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WiLD 94.1 (WLLD-FM) will host the station’s 9th Annual Toy Drive Tower event to benefit The Children’s Home Network in Tampa. Morning Freak Show personality Orlando Davis will host the event.

The FCC's Media Bureau has fined Jimmy Dale Media's WFMH-AM and WMCJ-AM in Cullman, AL $3,000 each for failing to file their license renewals on time. The applications to renew were three months late and the explanation given to the Commission that the stations were "struggling" didn't fly. Read the NAL HERE.

The Salvation Army’s Forgotten Angels Program will benefit from the toys collected at the 13th Annual Toy Field presented by Cumulus Nashville on Tuesday December 8th at Nissan Stadium. Less fortunate children and elderly will benefit from the program.

The station's annual radiothon for The Jimmy Fund ran for 16 hours on December 1 and brought in over $1.5 million. The money directly supports cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

The Tracy Johnson Media Group along with Benztown is hosting a webinar on how to use skills without a company radio job. Take Charge Of Your Future is set for December 8 at 1 PM Eastern.

Fox Sports AM1280 (KWSX) Stockton, CA will continue to carry University of the Pacific basketball games. The agreement with the iHeartMedia station covers men's and women's Pacific Tiger games.

The FCC has moved forward a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on whether to modify the Commission’s rules governing the operation of FM booster stations by FM broadcasters in certain limited circumstances. The petition was submitted by GeoBroadcast Solutions.

Educational Media Foundation is adding KZGO-FM in St. Paul and KQGO-FM in Edina to its growing roster of stations. The seller is the Minnesota-based Pohlad Companies. The purchase price for the stations has not been released yet.

John Fix, senior media analyst at Procter & Gamble, the iconic consumer package goods giant where he is known as the “radio guy” is sitting down with Nielsen’s Brad Kelly for a conversation at Forecast LIVE, December 8-9.

(By Deborah Parenti) A lot has been written about 2020, and no doubt, much more ink will be spent on a year that changed everything. About the disruption to lives and businesses, the pain and suffering — some apparent, some more stealthy, but in every instance, robbing someone, somewhere and in some way, of pieces of this fragile thing we call life.