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Entercom is acquiring three stations from Urban One: WPHI-FM in Philadelphia, Hot 104.1 (WHHL-FM) in St. Louis and 980 The Team (WTEM-AM) in Washington D.C. In exchange, Entercom is trading its Charlotte stations to Urban One.

Working with Univision Local Media, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital raised $4 million during this year’s Promesa y Esperanza (Promise and Hope) radio event held in 17 media markets in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, April 7-8. By collaborating with Univision, coverage of the St. Jude mission extended across several platforms to reach Hispanic consumers from coast to coast.

On Friday, WLS-AM 890 will celebrate its 95th birthday on the air in Chicago. It’s a pretty amazing feat and the station will be celebrating with live interviews, contests, and throw-backs showing WLS’s long legacy serving Chicago, and much of the “lower 48."

The launch was September 1 and the station can be heard on heritage signals that include 600AM, 1200AM and other Curtis Media AM and FM frequencies. WSJS will be a full-market Sports Talk outlet in the Greensboro/High-Point/Winston-Salem market.

Bushland Radio Specialties/WCFW is selling WCFW-FM and translator 99.1 W256AE-FM to Magnum Media. Both signals are licensed to Chippewa Falls – Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The sale price was $600K.

The same week Audacy considers a reverse stock split, they face more bad news: the company's $2.5 million auction for the domain name "Radio.com" through GoDaddy expired without a bid.

(By Rick Fink) As recession fears grow, the idea for this column came when I was watching the classic cartoon “The Three Little Pigs” with my 3-year-old granddaughter with a lesson for business owners and managers faced with a recession.

101.7 The Truth, in Milwaukee has kicked off a Black-Owned Business Giveback promotion. In partnership with Associated Bank the promotion is designed to help support Black-owned businesses by awarding them a free radio advertising campaign on the station.

Lisa Miller is the President of Miller Broadcast Management. Miller has influenced countless women and men in the broadcasting business since 1984. Before starting MBM Miller ran McCann Erickson in Chicago. As one of the first women agents in the business, Lisa set the bar for doing great business in an ethical and fair fashion. And, of course, Lisa Miller is one of Radio Ink‘s Most Influential Women in Radio.

National Public Radio revealed its recently elected board members on Tuesday, set to begin their terms in November. The public radio organization will welcome eight new directors, including four Member Directors and four Public Directors.