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(By Rick Fink) It happens nearly every day. You meet someone for the first time and the common question asked is, “What do you do for a living?” How do you reply? Do you offer the common boring response, "I sell advertising"?

In this latest Hispanic Radio Podcast from Streamline Publishing, Skyview Networks National Hispanic Audio Sales Manager Blanche Joesten talks with RBR+TVBR Editor Adam Jacobson about the potential to bring in more revenue while building a brand-new connection to an underserved — and very passionate — audience.

iHeartMedia Charlotte and the Carolina Panthers have signed a new multi-year broadcast deal to move games to WRFX-FM and make the station the team's new flagship for the Carolina Panthers Radio Network. Urban One's WBT had been carrying the games since 2005.

The owner of Pittsburgh Radio Partners, Frank Iorio Jr. announced the sale of Talk Radio 1320 WJAS to St Barnabas Broadcasting (a division of St. Barnabas Health System). Following the sale, Iorio (pictured) will retire, after a 50-year radio career.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai circulated a statement after the Third Court of Appeals rejected the Commission's most recent attempt to modernize ownership rules. Here's what the Chairman - and Commissioner Starks - had to say about the ruling.

With COVID numbers rising as the weather turns colder, Moderna has returned to the list of the top five national radio advertisers. Rates held somewhat steady for the first full week of Q4, hitting a total of 231,082 per Media Monitors.

KFI-AM 640, Los Angeles won eight awards at the 72nd Annual Golden Mike Awards®. The awards are Southern California's most prestigious, and most coveted, broadcast journalism prize and one of America's longest running broadcast news award programs.

Are the marketers and advertisers that the Executive Director of the Culture Marketing Council speaks to every day aware of the power of Hispanic radio and actively using Spanish-language radio stations to reach an important consumer segment? That's one of the key questions posed to Horacio Gavilán by Adam Jacobson in this latest Hispanic Radio Podcast.

Since 2012, WJBE-FM in Knoxville has been owned by Joe Armstrong. Now Armstrong is in jeopardy of losing the station because he did not include, in two license renewal applications with The FCC, that he was convicted of a crime. The Commission does not take that omission lightly.