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The National Association of Broadcasters has opened the nomination period for the 2021 Technology Awards. The three awards highlight significant achievements in the fields of broadcast engineering and digital leadership.

CDC has moved up from second to first on the latest Media Monitors list. CDC aired 69,581 spots, knocking Babbel (47,625) into third.

The Sports Hub WBZ-FM/98.5 hosts Toucher & Rich got some national face-time Sunday. The duo was part of the Sunday Today Show.

In the final video of our series called Visions and Decisions, today we hear from iHeart's Bob Pittman, Bill Hendrich (before he retired from CMG) and Radio Ink's Executive of The Year Dave Ramsey about how they're preparing to strike back in 2021. Our series sponsor is RadioMax, watch the video HERE.

Is the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out having an impact on advertisers enough so they increase their ad spend? That’s the focus of our daily series of interviews with radio executives. Salem Media Group has 99 Radio stations in 35 markets. We spoke to Salem's President for Broadcast Media David Santrella to get his take.

The new deal will include SummitMedia's nine markets for Nielsen's Continuous Diary Measurement ratings, TAPSCAN and Nielsen Scarborough in all markets where available.

The Radio Advertising Bureau and Borrell Associates have released new data that says digital revenue hit $1.1 billion for radio in 2020, an increase of 12% over 2019. They are also predicting digital will grow another 18% in 2021. The $1.1 billion accounts for 14% of radio's overall ad revenue.

CRS 2021: The Virtual Experience will offer four mentoring breakfasts and four workshops. The events will be spread across three days of the expanded four day event, February 16-19.

830 WCCO’s (WCCO-AM), Minneapolis raised more than half-a-million dollars to combat hunger. The 13th annual “Let’s Kick Hunger Day Radiothon” raised a record-breaking $544,974 to benefit Second Harvest Heartland.

830 WCCO (WCCO-AM) will stay the flagship station for Timberwolves NBA basketball. The Twin Cities Entercom station has served as the radio home of the team since 2011.