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Westwood One's has announced its list of holiday specials, hosted by a stellar lineup of artists. This year, the yuletide festivities commence with a side of turkey first -- A Thanksgiving Weekend Celebration with Chris Young -- a four-hour country music special available to stations Thursday, November 23 – Sunday, November 26, between 6 a.m. and 12 midnight.

All Things Considered, the flagship news program of NPR, will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame at the 2021 NAB Show. ATC debuted 50 years ago, May 3, 1971.

Everyone attending CRS 2022 will be required to provide documentation of full COVID-19 vaccinations or a negative COVID test result, to be completed within 48-hours of arrival at the event.

Compass Media Networks has a special for Classic Rock Stations. Uncle Joe's Rockin Christmas Show is a four hour package.

The Chicago Tribune takes a long hard look at that question and comes to the conclusion that radio does not do a good job bringing women into that part of the business. CBS Sports Radio's Amy Lawrence (pictured) is the only women in radio with a show 5 nights per week.

(By Paige Nienaber, obviously) This reminds me of successful bits where you don't realize it’s a hit until the next morning. A client asked me to leave a voicemail as the new morning show consultant. “Just say something stupid. That shouldn’t be hard.”

KCSN-FM, the Adult Album Alternative rock station at California State University in Northridge has rebranded to '88.5-FM, The SoCal Sound'. The station is simulcast on KSBR-FM at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo and recently was awarded 'Non-com Station of the Year' by industry peers.

The company's foray into Esports is called BEASLEY XP and kicks off with the acquisition of the syndicated Esports gaming lifestyle radio show, CHECKPOINT RADIO. The announcement was made Tuesday at the 2018 Esports Business Summit at in Vegas. Pictured with CEO Caroline Beasley are co-hosts Nathan Bender and Joe Sloan.

Beth Mann's Edge Media Group in Kentucky has launched a new initiative to help local businesses called Support Local.

Portsmouth Rock station 100.3 WHEB, Manchester Rock station Rock 101, and the Seacoast's Z107 have joined forces to give a Barrington, NH, teen fighting a rare blood disease a trip to Miami to the annual “Jingle Ball” on December 19, complete with meet-and-greets with some of the performers.