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iHeartMedia Sacramento announced today the launch of 92.5 The Breeze, “Sacramento’s #1 For Relaxing Favorites at Work.” The Breeze will launch Monday, November 12 at 3 p.m. by playing 10,000 commercial-free songs in a row.

Beasley Media Group has flipped b98.7 WPBB-FM/Tampa Bay to Christmas music from now through Christmas Day. The station will be playing a wide variety of holiday music from the classics to today’s favorites.

The Gracie Awards, presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, has opened the call for entries for the 44th Annual Gracie Awards Gala, May 21, 2019, at the Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills, and Gracie Awards Luncheon, June 26, 2019, in New York City at Cipriani 42nd Street.

BMI is expanding its presence in Texas and is opening its first creative office in Austin. Expected to open in early 2019, the office will allow BMI to work directly with the songwriters, composers, publishers, and emerging songwriter/artists in the Austin community.

On Wednesday, Former WFAN morning show co-host Craig Carton was convicted of running a Ponzi scheme. Jurors reached their decision after five hours of deliberations. The disgraced 49-year-old former WFAN morning show co-host faces up to 45 years in prison when he's sentenced February 27. His lawyers say they'll appeal the verdict.

At 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday of next week, Beasley Media Group Executive VP of Strategy & Innovation Buzz Knight will be interviewing Consumer Technology Association Senior Director of Innovation & Trends Ben Arnold. In a preview of that interview, Buzz had Arnold on his podcast Healthy Paranoa this week. Listen HERE. And grab one of the final remaining Forecast 2019 seats HERE.

Forecast 2019 brings together the best and brightest talent in broadcasting and advertising to forecast the coming year, and to discuss the trends and momentums that will affect ratings and revenue. AND WE ONLY HAVE FIVE SEATS LEFT.

(By Paul Rotella) Broadcast Association Executives, and indeed all association executives, both national and local, have their work cut out for them this Fall with the election and appointment of a record number of new Representatives and congressional staff. 

That increase to $47.8 million was on a same-station basis in the third quarter and included $1.2 million of political revenue. For the first nine months of the year, Salem has written $3 million in political revenue, an increase of 28% from 2014, the last big mid-term election year.

Nielsen announced that Westwood One and Panoply Media will be using the Nielsen Auto Cloud for their auto marketing and measurement capabilities. So what does this really mean?