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March 19 is the new deadline, and it will be the final deadline for entries. Eligibility is also extended, to work that ran between January 1, 2017 and March 19, 2018.

Earlier this week, the 4A’s today issued a Fair Play Charter to its members, asking media agencies, and media departments within agencies, to recommit to fair and equitable treatment of minority media owners.

(By Ronald Robinson) My last two articles dealt with the sub-par and benign admonitions from a dozen otherwise experienced and well-intentioned radio professionals. To their credit, however, they agreed on the need for more – lots more – skilled talent to be brought back to the airwaves, or generated from scratch.

The New 104.9 The Wolf (WXCL/Peoria) raised $70,124 with John & Jaymie’s Radiothon for St. Jude Kids. The Wolf staff broadcasted from the Alpha Media building February 1-2 for 12 hours each day.

That's according to a new report released by the Radio Advertising Bureau and Borrell & Associates. The $700 Million figure is 13.4% higher than 2016. Radio's overall revenue has been hovering at about $17 Billion per year. The report shows that digital ad revenue now accounts for 7.5% of the average station’s ad revenues, up from 6.3% last year.

A new streaming study was released at the Country Radio Seminar, Wednesday. And, there was a lot of good news for radio. The survey involved a wide group of audio listeners in the United States (ages 18-54) and focused on those who listen to country music at least once per month and those that use either a free or paid streaming service.

That's according to Amplifi Media CEO Steve Goldstein who was part of a panel at the Country Radio Seminar, Wednesday. Goldstein would like to see radio produce more original content in the podcasting space, which has already grown to a $250 million business. Here's why Goldstein says radio has an advantage.

A request by two anti-consolidation entities for an emergency stay of the FCC’s media ownership order, which effectively ends the ban on cross-ownership rules such as broadcast/newspaper combinations and radio/TV combinations in the same market, has been denied.

The comments started piling up immediately after Cumulus CEO Mary Berner said "Radio needs to grow a pair," in her first ever radio industry conference appearance Tuesday at CRS. The reality of her comment is that other Radio CEO's have been saying the same thing, perhaps using other words, for years. So why did Berner's comments tick so many people off?

During her CRS interview, Cumulus CEO Mary Berner said, from a day-to-day standpoint, the restructure means nothing. She said the decision to file for bankruptcy was purely a business transaction and on the operational side it's business as usual.