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With its stock price now in the low single digits, thanks to the coronavirus crisis that has drastically reduced ad spending across the country, the Cumulus Board of Directors has adopted a "shareholder rights plan" to prevent a "creeping change of control" in the company.

ENCO Systems, Benztown, Compass Media Networks, and vCreative have formed a strategic alliance around the AI creation of spec spots. SPECai is now a part of vCreative's platform of creative workflow solutions for broadcasters.

And 50 of them have written a letter to Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer urging the Senate to pass it. If turned into law the PIRATE Act would give the FCC new enforcement tools to combat pirate radio stations

Integr8 Research President Matt Bailey will host a webinar to discuss his recent blog on "Retention Rate: The Magic New Metric for Measuring Hit Potential in Streaming Data". Bailey will explain why streaming data is different from other song performance measures.

We want to know who the 25 people that have had the biggest impact (good or bad) on the radio industry over the past 25 years are. And we want you to tell us. The results of our poll will be published in the November 13 issue of Radio Ink -- celebrating the 25th year of the magazine.

The Gracies Luncheon, honoring local and student radio, television, and interactive media Gracies recipients, will be held Tuesday, June 27 in New York at Cipriani on 42nd. Jane Pauley will be acknowledged with the Gracies Lifetime Achievement Award.

(By Mike McVay) If you’ve not yet watched the Amazon Prime documentary Hendrie, then you need to as soon as you can. If you’ve never heard of Phil Hendrie, he is an amazing talk talent who mastered the art of talking to himself as a character.

Bruce Demps started his radio career in sales with WIVY Y103 in Jacksonville back in 1983, when it was one of four stations in the market owned by Infinity Broadcasting. He went on to work for Clear Channel and Radio One, among other companies. He told us about his long and winding road through the radio industry and beyond, and we wanted to share his story with you because we know so many of you can relate.

Barrett Media has awarded "The Sean Hannity Show" with its top national news/talk show honor for 2022. The honor comes less than a month after the show and its syndicate, iHeartRadio's Premiere Networks, signed its 700th radio affiliate.

This will be the 18th straight year FOX Sports Radio has covered the big game. Broadcasting across a network of more than 400 station in the U.S., as well as FOXSportsRadio.com and iHeartRadio, the network will do blanket coverage in Minneapolis from January 29 to February 2.