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Borrell and Associates has just released its annual Local Advertiser Survey in which over 3,500 small businesses were surveyed about their advertising plans. The results showed that advertisers still use newspaper, digital is their number one choice, and events are huge.

Tami Honesty is the Vice President and General Manager for Radio One in Dallas. She's also been chosen as one of Radio Ink's Best Managers in 2017 and is featured in the current issue of Radio Ink Magazine. This 25-year veteran -- 17 as a manager -- has worked in programming, sales and marketing, and management. She's incredibly driven and creates a collaborative environment where employees are engaged, happy, and focused on success.

It's a much smaller company now that Power 106 in Los Angeles is no longer part of the Emmis stable. The company reported revenue of $41.8 million for June, July, and August. On a same-station basis that's an increase of 2% over 2016.

On November 15, the smartest and most influential minds in broadcast and advertising will gather at the Harvard Club in New York for Forecast 2018 to predict and set in motion radio’s trajectory for the coming year. If revenue generation is your goal for 2018, this is one gathering you cannot miss.

(By Georgia Beasley) We all know what is on everyone’s plate right now… BUDGETS. So I want to take this small window of opportunity that comes around once each year to discuss a topic you may not have considered: Allocating or shifting dollars in the budget to pay Millennials MORE MONEY.

DoSomething.org and Chevrolet have joined forces with beauty and fashion expert Amanda Steele for a game of "Ride & Seek." This latest campaign from DoSomething.org engages young people around the importance of seat belt usage, without losing their interest.

The 2017 American Music Awards will broadcast live from LA’s Microsoft Theater on Sunday, November 19, 2017, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. ET on ABC. Westwood One and Cumulus Media are the official national radio partners for the Awards

Brazil sports broadcaster FOX Sports Brasil, has selected an on-premise deployment version of the Veritone aiWARE platform to cognitively enrich and index both archived content and live streams. In Brazil the media and entertainment market is projected to reach $43.7 billion by 2021.

Have you ever wondered how people managed to insult each other before Twitter came along? Here's another example of how two adult public figures seem to revert back to their childhood name-calling days. This vulgar Twitter fight was between iHeartMedia San Antonio Sports talker Mike Taylor (pictured) and singer Richard Marx.

It appears things are starting to change even before the Entercom/CBS deal closes. Steve DiNardo, who was the Vice-President/Market Manager for the Entercom San Francisco cluster, is no longer with the company. At the time of his promotion in February of 2014, the company said, “After a nationwide search, the best choice was right in front of us."