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Radio Ink's Editor-in-Chief Ed Ryan lives in Fort Myers, Florida, and he spent much of the day yesterday covering the storm in real time on both Facebook and Twitter -- comments, photos, video. This is the most direct coverage you can get.

Our favorite broadcast attorney, David Oxenford, has just written his latest blog post entitled "FCC Issues Guidance for Broadcasters and Other Regulated Services in the Path of Hurricane Irma." David has some information that every broadcaster should note.

That’s the name of the program to support Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, carried out by Indianapolis media outlets. In a show of unity, the media community teamed up with key community and business leaders to initiate further disaster relief. The collection of specific items took place Thursday, September 7 to Saturday, September 9.

Cox Media Group Atlanta’s Radio stations, News 95.5 and AM750 WSB (WSB-AM), B98.5 (WSB-FM), 97.1 The River (WSRV), and KISS 104.1 (WALR), partnered with WSB-TV Ch. 2 Action News and The Atlanta Journal Constitution for a bottled water drive. The result was 10 trucks loaded up with water in just two days for the Convoy of Care.

(By Bob McCurdy) When your prospect utters, “We tried radio before and it didn’t work, sales were flat,” it is time to go to work. First, clarify how the prospect defines “flat.” Getting an accurate answer is important, if sales were in fact up “only” a couple of percent, the campaign did indeed “work”

(By Wayne Ens) During the Consultant’s Corner at this year’s Radio Show, we unveiled the six high-leverage activities that managers can engage in to increase their sales. All of them revolve around selling your sellers. Your salespeople are beat up on the street every day with objections like “No one listens to radio anymore” or “Your rates are too high” or “I tried radio and it didn’t work.”

(By Randy Lane) Talent wants to play less music, management wants to play more. Does your station run into this dilemma? How do you resolve it? How much music to play in the morning is one of the most common questions we get from clients.

The winners of the 2017 Radio Ink Radio Wayne Awards were announced at the Radio Show in Austin, Thursday, with Mary Quass, CEO of NRG Media, taking the prize for America's Best Broadcaster. Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti presented the awards at the Advertiser Breakfast, continuing a long-standing annual tradition. 

WCBS-AM in New York took NAB Marconi honors as Legendary Station of the Year at the ceremony, held Thursday evening at the Radio Show in Austin. Rickey Smiley — who won the award for Syndicated Personality of the Year — hosted. Here are all the winners.

According to a presentation Fred Jacobs made at the Radio Show last week it sure does because more listening takes place in the automobile than in any other location. Jacobs and the NAB released details of a new study that analyzed how radio stations look on the Dash.