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Public radio stations across Texas are teaming with NPR to increase coverage of statewide issues aimed at underserved regions. Reporters and editors from the state’s four largest public radio stations are planning statewide coverage together and to share resources.

BMI revenue for its fiscal year which ended June 30 was $1.283 billion, up 7% over the previous year, and a record for revenue. BMI distributed $1.196 billion to its songwriters, composers, and publishers, its highest distributions ever, and a 7% or $78 million increase over last year.

In honor of National Recovery Month, NewsTalk 99.7 FM & AM 630 WPRO/Providence is having a day of broadcasts aimed at confronting the opioid crisis and how it affects Rhode Island and Southern New England.

Power 102.9 in Fort Collins, Colorado, flipped from Classic Rock, last Friday, to become the first, and only, Hip-Hop station in Northern Colorado.

Beasley’s 2019 Community of Caring Initiative — focused on children — saw WJBR-FM in Wilmington, Delaware, recently teamed up with the New Castle County Police Department to host play zones for children in the local community.

Florence Rogers resigned Friday after the KNPR board announced plans to cut operating costs. A statement from the station said it's facing “severe cash flow issues” and is working with attorneys to fix the situation. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has the details HERE.

ESPN Deportes Radio is gone, signing off this past weekend. The Spanish-language Sports radio gap is being filled by a new player with old roots.

Three years ago the future of what was then called KPLU was in doubt when Pacific Lutheran University planned to sell the station to the University of Washington’s KUOW. Listeners to the 53-year old station objected and a campaign to buy the station was launched.

The new format will include Bubba The Love Sponge in morning drive, Shannon Burke in afternoon drive and Scott Ledger in middays. CEO John Caracciolo said this is exactly what radio needs right now, fresh, new, funny and local.

(By Jeff McHugh) If I ask you to imagine James Bond, you might visualize Daniel Craig. But when he was first cast, there was controversy. A “Blonde Bond?” Inconceivable! But once we saw the film, Craig quickly busted down that boundary.