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Riviera Broadcasting has hired John Sebastian as PD and consultant for KOAI-FM/Phoenix. Sebastian will evolve KOAI into his new music format called The WOW Factor. KOAI will be the first station in the country to launch this format.

At Forecast 2020 we'll have experts discussing factors that will impact the economy and what that means for radio. The moderator for this session will be Gordon Borrell is CEO of Borrell Associates and the local media industry’s leading analyst.

PILOT, NAB’s innovation initiative, has named the winners of the latest round of its program that provides grants to NAB members to establish paid engineering or media-technology internships at their radio and television stations.

iHeartMedia Chicago’s 107.5 WGCI, V103, and Inspiration 1390, will hold the third annual Sista Strut, a 3K breast cancer charity walk to benefit the Sisters Network Inc. (Chicago Chapter), Oct. 5.

Cumulus’ Wilmington, NC, cluster will send all donated items from its annual “Christmas For Our Troops” fundraiser and series of donation drives to deployed servicemen and women overseas in time for Christmas.

(By Randy Lane) One of the top challenges for radio shows and podcasts is creating fresh content. That's why we created a comprehensive daily planning checklist to help jump-start new content ideas, features, and benchmarks.

(By Bob McCurdy) In radio sales it’s easy to get caught up in an ever-accelerating fast lane, too busy to notice how we could be working smarter — more effectively and efficiently. Ironically, slowing down might help.

Three Members of the House of Representatives have added their co-sponsorship to a resolution opposing "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local broadcast radio stations.

FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks is a guest speaker at the 19th annual Power of Urban Radio Forum in Washington, D.C. this week.

Winners of the 2019 NAB Marconi Radio Awards were announced Thursday night at the 30th annual Marconi Radio Awards Dinner at the Radio Show in Dallas. Entercom's KRTH-FM took home the Legendary trophy while Hubbard's Dan Seeman won for Legendary Station Manager. Here are all the 2019 winners.