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The Broadcasters Foundation of America has announced its 2020 Leadership Awards, which are given annually in recognition of career contributions to the broadcast industry. Among those to be honored are Entercom's Weezie Kramer and CMG's Kim Guthrie.

KWEN/Tulsa (K95.5) has launched its annual two-day radiothon to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The station will be joined in its efforts this year by its sister stations.

(By Buzz Knight) How organizations can rise to the challenge and in fact create new opportunities is on the minds of many in executive boardrooms across the country, especially in the audio business.

Entercom has reached a multiyear content sharing agreement with Univision New York’s Que Buena 92.7 FM (WQBU-FM) to broadcast the games in Spanish.

Beasley's 98.5 the Sports Hub has entered into a multi-year partnership with the Special Olympics Massachusetts.

The goal of the new product is to help advertisers get their message out to as many of iHeart's listeners as possible, and, for those brands to be able to measure the success of their campaigns. It's also a way for podcast advertisers to get their message in front of iHeart's radio listeners.

The late Bob Kingsley will be honored during CRS's annual “Bob Kingsley’s Acoustic Alley,” Thursday, Feb. 20. The host will be Fitz, recently named new host of Bob Kingsley's Countdown show, Radio Ink will hand out its Best PD Awards (sponsored by Sony Music Nashville) and Garth Brooks will host a writers round.

We've been following this story since late January when an administrative law judge ruled in favor of a union representing employees at Stephens Media Group’s upstate New York radio stations. This week Stephens filed an unfair labor practice charge against the National Association of Broadcast Employee & Technicians.

The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group, which was created shortly after Radio Ink launched its Most Influential Women in Radio issue, has released its 20th annual gender analysis study. Here's what they discovered.

Next month in San Francisco Cumulus will move the syndicated show Armstrong & Getty from KGO to KSFO and launch The Morning Show With Nikki Medoro. Veteran newsman Bret Burkhart joins Medoro who moves to mornings from afternoon drive where she worked with Chip Franklin.