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On June 23, Cox Tulsa stations broke records in this year’s St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway. The stations raised $1,125,000 for the organization, the highest amount ever raised in Tulsa -- and in record time.

Philadelphia station WMMR collected 1,443 productive units of blood for the Red Cross on June 15, making it the largest Red Cross blood drive of its type in the nation, eclipsing a mark set last year.

Pride Live, a social advocacy and community engagement organization for the LGBTQ+ community, and iHeartMedia New York, have announced the second annual Stonewall Day, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall gay rights riots.

Cox Media Group’s K99.1 FM/Dayton, OH, has helped raise nearly $300,000 in the past month for tornado relief across the Dayton community.

Radio regulatory fees are being jacked up by The FCC and the NAB wants the Commission to explain why. In comments filed Monday the trade organization says the data does not support the 18-20% increase.

A flurry of apologies couldn't stop the stampede of criticism Kansas City sports host Kevin Kietzman was receiving after comments he made about Chiefs head coach Andy Reid and Reid's family on Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, Union Broadcasting suspended Kietzman until further notice.

Cumulus Media's EVP of Marketing and Westwood One President Suzanne Grimes says 2019 is the "year of the brands" in podcasting. Analyzing recent research and data Grimes says "brands are much more active in podcast advertising than meets the eye."

Farr, a long-time resident of Williamsport, is selling WILQ-FM, WLMY-FM, WWPA-AM, WZXR-FM in Williamsport, WCXR-FM in Lewisburg and WBZD-FM in Muncy to Van Michael.

Hubbard CEO Ginny Morris has sent word that the company’s President and COO, Drew Horowitz, is retiring at the end of the year after 43 years of working in, owning, and running radio stations and companies.

Newly appointed ABC Radio GM Stacia Philips Deshishku has been looking at ways to restructure the organization, according to a memo she sent out to ABC Radio employees. As part of that restructuring, it was announced on Monday, that after 22 years with the company, Executive Director of Programming/News, Andrew Kalb is leaving.