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Benztown is out with a Christmas in a Box imaging package. It includes 5,000 tracks of audio Christmas cheer.

It's all part of WhyHunger’s 35th Hungerthon drive. WhyHunger’s fundraising campaign launched Monday and runs through the holiday season. Here are the events the two audio companies are partnering on to help the organization.

P1 Media Group and MRC Entertainment tested the appeal of the 40 most-played and 40 most-streamed Christmas songs from the 2019 Holiday Season, according to BDSradio.

For airing 58,937 commercials on radio stations across America, United Health Care was radio's number one national advertiser last week, according to Media Monitors. GEICO (47,448) was pushed down to number two.

Coming up Thursday in the closing session of Hispanic LIVE, NAB's CEO Gordon Smith sits down with three of Hispanic radio's top executives for a frank and insightful conversation on topics that will chart the course in the years ahead for Hispanic - and all of - radio.

(By Mike McVay) There is no better Commercial Message on your radio station than the Promotional Message for your station. Promos that image the station, promote contests, events, and your product, need to be well written and well produced.

(By Jeff McHugh) Personalities will be even more crucial to the success of AM/FM and podcasting in the future because of an increasing trend: social isolation.

A new blog post from Cumulus' Pierre Bouvard highlights how both TV and YouTube are flooded with political revenue, YouTube to the point where it cannot take any more ads. Bouvard points out why radio should be in line to catch that overflow revenue, not digital and social media. Read the post HERE.

Kitchen joined WGN's Dave Plier to discuss the 2020 Hall of Fame virtual induction ceremony. Kitchen is the chairman of the Hall of Fame which is located in Chicago. Listen to the interview HERE.