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Winners for the 2020 Radio Mercury Awards were announced virtually Tuesday evening at the 29th annual awards event. Here are all the winners and a link to listen to all the winning commercials.

The biggest star radio let walk away is close to signing a new deal with SiriusXM worth $120 million per year, according to Bloomberg. The 66-year old has signed new five-year deals since leaving radio in 2005. Bloomberg says Stern's 2015 contract was worth $80-$100 million

(By Ben Downs) The FCC is expected to give AM Revitalization another tool for the competitive toolkit. The October 27th Open Meeting includes a vote on a Report and Order in response to a proposal Bryan Broadcasting filed last year.

Americans' share of listening to spoken word audio is up over eight percent in the last year according to the second annual Spoken Word Audio Report. NPR and Edison Research will present the report, the second of its kind, in an October 13th webinar. REGISTER

102.5 KZOK 23rd annual 'Rock The Harvest' radiothon raised over $116,000 to benefit Northwest Harvest, Washington State's leading hunger relief agency. The funds to support the statewide network of 375 food banks, were raised during a 12 hour broadcast.

The Women to Watch Media program has been expanded to two hours on 1210 WPHT in Philadelphia. The expansion has opened up national syndication availabilities.

Entercom has launched HOT 105.7 (WXSS-HD2), as a hip hop and R&B station. The change takes The Fan off of FM, rebranding it as 1250AM The Fan (WSSP-AM).

At the opening panel of the 2020 Radio Show Monday afternoon Cumulus CEO Mary Berner, Entercom CEO David Field and iHeart CEO Bob Pittman described to MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle what it's going to take to get back to business after a near total government mandated business shut-down due to the pandemic.

Cumulus/Westwood One Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard is out with a new blog that analyzes the latest Nielsen numbers from PPM markets. He says drive time audiences continue to climb after the March drop due to COVID-19.

AnalyticOwl is partnering with vCreative to allow stations to automatically surface audio files directly from vCreative vPPO into the AnalyticOwl attribution platform. This new capability matches individual creative elements to detailed campaign analysis information.