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WGN Radio announced that it will move its studios and offices to the 18th floor of 303 E. Wacker from the Tribune Tower at 435 N. Michigan. The first official broadcast from the new studios will happen in June.

The FCC wants radio stations to remember to get their Public Files online by March 1. Commercial stations in Nielsen's top 50 markets, with five or more full-time employees, were required to use the FCC's online public file database on June 24, 2016. All other radio stations were exempted until March 1, 2018.

The Radio Music License Committee has announced the filing of an antitrust complaint against Global Music Rights concerning what the RMLC calls anticompetitive behavior. Global Music Rights was founded in 2013 by Irving Azoff and represents music rights holders for the licensing of their public performances.

Registration is now open for the seventh bi-annual National Cash Contest conducted by the Independent Broadcasters Association. The contest, designed to boost listener base and revenue, allows member stations to partake in a fully managed program offering daily cash prizes.

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.

Radio Ink and The Center for Sales Strategy presents the Radio Masters Sales Summit, September 22-23 in Miami. The premier radio sales event brings you 45 speakers, panelists, and performers; making this a not to be missed two-day event.

According to The L.A. Times, the 12,300 square foot house includes a home theater, a wine cellar, an elevator, six bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms, a game room, a gym, a speakeasy-style bar and a six-car garage. The paper says Rome purchased the property in the Shady Canyon community in 2003 and the house was built in 2007. Check out pictures of the mansion HERE.

On Tuesday, at noon, KRWM-FM/Seattle Brand Content Director Ron Harrell, and work-day host Shellie Hart, flipped the station to Seattle's Christmas Station, WARM 106.9.

On February 23 Emmis entered into an agreement to sell all the assets of Atlanta Magazine, Cincinnati Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine and Orange Coast Magazine to Hour Media Group for $6.5 Million. That deal closed yesterday. Emmis has been trying to shed debt by selling off its non-broadcast assets.

Westwood One is launching a new genre, “Classic Rock X,” on Forever Media’s WRQY (Rocky 96.5) in Wheeling, WV. The format was developed in conjunction with Forever Media and will soon be featured in more of their markets, as well as offered to the marketplace at large.