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KGAF Gainesville has a Secret Santa to thank for helping listeners in need. This is the third year the Secret Santa has come up with thousands of dollars for listeners.

Mike McVay interviewed CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta about the role media plays disseminating information about the pandemic. It was a fabulous way to launch into two days of great information. Find out what the good doctor said by taking advantage of Forecast LIVE ON DEMAND. You'll be able to see EVERY session you missed.

B98.5 (WSB-FM) gave lucky families a holiday to remember, with Tad & Drex’s Merry Little Christmas. Thanks to the generosity listeners and sponsors, fifteen local families had their Christmas lists fulfilled this holiday season!

WOWO’s Penny Pitch radiothon raised a total of $81,915 for Crosswinds Counseling of Fort Wayne. This is the 73rd annual radiothon by Indiana news talker.

Figuring out exactly who owns what music has been one of the biggest challenges facing the two performing rights organizations. Now, ASCAP and BMI are launching SONGVIEW, a data platform that provides music users with a view of copyright ownership for more than 20 million musical works.

As many of you know, the NAB has been working very hard for broadcasters, making sure they were not left out when the government decided more COVID relief money would be on the way. Mission accomplished.

The Economic Forecasting: Revenue Trends and Expectations for 2021 panel at Radio Ink Forecast Live! covered a wide spectrum of things the savvy radio account exec needs to keep in their sights in the new year. The panel last year predicted disruption and that happened; however our panel is optimistic about opportunities in 2021.

Sun Broadcasting's WHEL has dumped the Donald Trump impersonator it was airing between country songs and changed over to Hell Yeah 93.7 FM, A Hellacious Amount of Country. Country is very competitive in Southwest Florida with both iHeart and Renda having popular country stations in the market.

The company is making a $1 million commitment to local restaurants, arts, and charities in the markets Entercom’s employees live and work. Entercom will disperse the $1 million in the form of gift certificates to all full-time employees, redeemable at establishments selected by company executives.

Bank of America took the top spot on the Media Monitors list of national radio advertisers by airing 68,762 commercials last week. Bristol Myers Squibb-Pfizer was pushed into the second spot with 62,840 airing.