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The New York Public Radio Board of Trustees has announced that Goli Sheikholeslami has been named CEO of New York Public Radio. Sheikholeslami serves as CEO of Chicago Public Media. NYPR has been searching for a new CEO since January.

That’s the question Edison Research Senior VP Tom Webster was trying to figure out during his keynote speech, Wednesday, at Podcast Movement. Webster says there's no longer a clear way to define what a podcast is.

Seven Mountains Media has acquired Connoisseur Media’s Stroudsburg, PA, stations 93.5 WSBG and 840 WVPO. In less than five years, Seven Mountains has acquired 41 signals serving seven markets in Pennsylvania and the Southern Tier of New York State.

Entercom collected over 33,000 jars of peanut butter to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina (the Charlotte metro area), setting a new record in total donations.

With local ad revenue floundering in Q2 for public radio companies, we're looking at the local revenue bottom line of privately held radio groups. Connoisseur Media operates 17 stations and digital brands in six markets across four states. CEO Jeff Warshaw shared his thoughts with Radio Ink.

(By Eric Rhoads) Paul Harvey used to talk about “the rest of the story.” The Radio Ink magazine and headlines e-mail you read have a story that is tied to one man — Dwight Case, a dear friend who just passed.

Nielsen today launched Continuous Diary Measurement with the first data delivery in five of the 46 markets converting to monthly reports effective with the July 2019 survey. 

RAB SVP of Insights Annette Malave's latest blog highlight's the importance of radio in local communities. She says that with nearly 1,800 newspapers either disappearing or merging with other publications since 2004, radio is more important than ever. Get all the details HERE. .

This time it was Christian radio station KNEO in Neosha, MO. GM Mark Taylor tells KSN16 the hackers demanded $100,000 which the station did not pay. Due to the type of software used it was determined the hack came from Russia.

The National Hockey League’s Arizona Coyotes and iHeartMedia Phoenix have a new multi-platform broadcast and streaming agreement, making Fox Sports 910 the flagship station for all Coyotes games.