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Alpha Media Canton's 13th Annual AultCare Wish-A-Thon raised $186,011 for Wishes Can Happen, a charity that raises funds for children with life-threatening illnesses. The 36-hour live simulcast will allow Wishes Can Happen to grant another 37 wishes.

Radio One in Richmond, VA is working to help families with school age kids get ready for a return to class. Prep for Success has 500 back-packs with school supplies to give away.

Benztown and P1 Media Groupwill host a free webinar entitled How to Brand Your Career and Station Like a Rock Star. The webinar is fourth in the Global Radio Ideas webinar series from top radio consultants.

VSiN, The Sports Betting Network and sports betting platform BetMGM, are partnering for a new show. Betting Across America will offer sports betting data and detailed analytics.

The rates radio pays to SESAC for use of works from the SESAC library will not change. The rates for music stations remains 0.2557% of net revenue and the rates for talk stations stays at 0.0575% of revenue. The agreement was reached in arbitration.

For the first time in California’s history, public radio stations up and down the state are uniting for one day of support. August 27 is California Public Radio Day.

Media Monitors says The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was the number one national radio advertiser last week with it's 50,249 commercials on radio stations across America.

(By Buzz Knight) We’ve reached the back of this illustrious year of chaos and it’s worth hitting the pause button for a second to deal with everyone’s favorite topic: Data and Metrics. OK it’s not everyone’s favorite topic but it’s a necessity in this day and age.

Midwest Communications, Princeton Broadcasting, Fleur De Lis Broadcasting, Lafayette Broadcasting and Mitchell Community Broadcasting all had their license renewal applications suspended for failing to certify their public files were compliant with FCC rules as it relates to requests for political advertising.

The Weather Channel and Skyview Networks have signed a multi-year partnership. Skyview will now rep The Weather Channel for radio network sales and distribution. Currently, stations in over 100 markets use services from The Weather Channel.