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The Country Radio Seminar begins this week in Nashville and the event will feature four mentoring events to kick off Thursday and Friday. Many of Radio Ink's Top Country PD's will be part of the Programming Mentoring breakfast, which you can register for HERE.

At Podcast Movement's Evolution last week, Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez announced a new a new not-for-profit organization of independent podcasters called The Podcast Academy. Notably not in the group that made the announcement with Lopez were iHeartMedia, Entercom or any other radio company.

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(By Randy Lane) The most crucial question about your brand today is, what makes you different?

(By Bob McCurdy) What is better than being common, normal, ordinary, regular, similar, standard, unexceptional, un-noteworthy, or usual? It’s being “unusual.” Here are some tips on being unusual in a good way, and becoming a better salesperson.

Galaxy Media was created by Pam and Ed Levine on February 12, 1990. The company's original studio for WKLL-FM, was located in the back of a diner in Frankfort, NY.

And both sides are claiming a win after the ruling. Federal Judge Terry Hatter has denied the RMLC's attempt to dismiss its case against GMR, which GMR says is a major blow to radio. But the RMLC says the big news here is that the court agreed that if RMLC can prove the facts alleged then GMR is an illegal cartel.

The iHeart CEO was a keynoter at Podcast Movement's Evolutions Thursday. Pittman took some heat from the podcast community last September when he said podcasting was radio's birthright. Last night he made it clear how much he believed in podcasting and told the crowd podcasting is going to be a lot bigger than anyone thinks.

Those are the words of newspaper executive and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charles Munger. His comments were made the same week McClatchy, the second largest newspaper company in the United States, filed for bankruptcy.

If you want to know the future of Hispanic radio, listen to what its leaders are saying. And if you want to know what broadcasting's top advocate to Washington and the world is asking them, you'll want to be in the room at Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference in Miami.