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It's called Exact Age 3.0 and our friends at The Research Director says this new report "pinpoints the age, gender, and ethnicity cells that contribute the most listening to every station and specified format groups in the market."

Can Spanish-language radio serve as a powerful platform for the expansion of a very regional brand that seeks wider growth opportunities? In this Hispanic Radio Podcast, advertising agency head Alex López Negrete — whose resume includes Spanish-language play-by-play for an NBA franchise — shares his thoughts on why radio works for advertisers.

Ed Hammond started his radio career in 1974 at Gospel/Christian station WPEO in Peoria. He'll end his career this week at WMBD, also in Peoria, where he's been since 2000, covering local news, doing play-by-play sports, and as the News Director for the past five years.

Kurt Luchs is the Market Manager for NRG Media in Wausau-Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He's also been chosen as one of Radio Ink's Best Managers for 2017 and will be featured in the October 9 issue of Radio Ink Magazine. Luchs is responsible for four NRG FMs in his cluster and he leads about 30 NRG employees. During the nomination process, here's what one of those employees said about him, and it's what every manager hopes for. 

Aerostar Communications of Utah is purchasing KEGH-FM (Woodruff, UT) along with booster stations KEGH-FM1 (Ogden), KEGH-FM2 (Bountiful, UT), KEGH-FM3 (Salt Lake City), KEGH-FM4 (Provo) for $1,100,000 cash. KEGH-FM has been in the SLC Divestiture Trust II for 6 years. It was part of the Simmons Media Group divestiture in the Salt Lake market.

The Home Depot continues to be radio's number one advertiser, according to Media Monitors. After airing over 61,000 commercials last week, The Home Depot made it 13 consecutive weeks on top of the Media Monitors chart. GEICO held on to the number two spot (41,112), following by Lowe's (33,827), JC Penny (26,082) and McDonald's (26,053).

Rising Above: Ascending to Greatness in 2022 will feature lessons from the best trainers in the business. Among the 10 professionals taking part in the virtual event will be Laurie Kahn of Media Staffing Network.

Benztown, a global leader in radio imaging, programming and jingles, has released its "Christmas in a Box" holiday imaging package to stations with a Benztown library subscription.

To commemorate the anniversary of Kobe Bryant’s tragic death, all  Southern California Broadcasters Association member Stations will air a 24-second moment of silence on  Tuesday at 9:45 coinciding with the time the helicopter carrying Bryant, his daughter and seven others crashed in Agoura Hills, CA one year ago.  

It’s Beasley Classic Rock station WPBB-FM/98.7FM The Shark in Tampa Bay. The station kicked off the new format at midnight on Wednesday, December 26.