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Radio imaging and voiceover company Benztown is lending a helping hand to the students of Dan Vallie's National Radio Talent Institute. In addition to providing financial support as a national sponsor, Benztown will provide every student with a USB drive loaded with Benztown audio production components to give them tools to help launch their careers.

Jazz public radio station WBGO/Newark, NJ, has received two national awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated. PRNDI recognizes the best of local public radio news in a wide array of categories, and has recognized WBGO every year for the past 20 years, awarding the station 86 times since 1998.

Pittman and Bressler say the companies that disagree with the NAB position have argued for more strategic and targeted reform. "Leave the FM subcaps intact and eliminate only the AM subcaps, allowing for more ownership of AM stations." Pittman and Bressler told their team they support that position.

The Pittman/Bressler memo ends with a note to iHeartMedia presidents about the need to be on the lookout for stations the company might buy if more deregulation passes. Even though the company opposes deregulation, Pittman and Bressler believe that when the company fixes its balance sheet, which it's in the process of doing, it will be "the biggest buyer of additional stations."

The radio industry is divided when it comes to more deregulation. That's the opinion of iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman and CFO Richard Bressler who sent out a company note Monday detailing why the company opposes the NAB's plan to push the FCC for more deregulation. That opinion is not shared by the NAB.

As of July 6 all legacy Entercom stations will move over to Radio.com, the digital app Entercom picked up as part of the merger with CBS Radio. All legacy CBS Radio stations will be pulled off TuneIn by August 1. In a memo to staff Monday, CEO David Field said, "We are committed to making Radio.com a leader in the digital audio space."

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The E.W. Scripps Company, which is in the process of selling off its radio stations, has reached an agreement to sell its group of five radio stations in Tulsa to Griffin Communications for $12.5 million. 

If you were on social media for a nanosecond, Monday, you saw the many moving tributes to one of the best Top 40 DJs of all time. Dan Ingram died Sunday at the age of 83. Former Saga Executive Steve Goldstein was lucky enough to work with Ingram and put his thoughts about the WABC host into a blog. Here are some excerpts from that post...

(By Gary Berkowitz) Monday morning's headline was shocking. Dan Ingram was dead. Dan has been called the "World’s Greatest Top 40 DJ." I would have to agree since I got to listen to him daily growing up in New York City where WABC was our local station.