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In looking at the deals of the past year, we reached out to some of the top brokers in the industry to get their opinions on the year that’s just concluding, what the multiples will be in 2017, and where the money will come from when investors decide they want to be part of the industry.

Darrell Brown, the President of Bonneville International Corporation, has announced his retirement. Tanya Vea has been appointed as the new President and Chief Operating Officer of Bonneville, starting from August 1.

(By Joel Raab) Sure, we play country music, sell advertising, and try to have some fun doing it amid the chaos that sometimes permeates our business — but what we do for listeners is indeed priceless.

The ratings firm reports that in the May 2021 PPM survey the industry saw gains in listening across the aggregate of markets as the country continues to reopen and consumers fall back into their routines. According to Nielsen radio’s weekly reach is now at its highest levels since March 2020

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn paid a visit to iHeartMedia's WIOD. Pai and Clyburn were in Miami for a post-Irma tour and were interviewed on WIOD by Enrique Santos and Jimmy Cefalo. Excerpts from the interview can be heard Tuesday morning on Cefalo's show and will run in its entirety at 10:06 a.m.

Entercom has started airing a daily “I’m Listening” capsule on its 230 radio stations. The 60-second PSA's are part of Entercom’s “I’m Listening” mental health awareness initiative. They will feature the voices of artists, celebrities, media hosts and mental health specialists.

The Detroit Pistons and CBS Radio Detroit announced Wednesday that the team has agreed to a multi-year deal with "97.1 FM The Ticket" (WXYT), making the station the team’s radio flagship partner beginning with the 2017-18 season.

Apparently it offends the federal government, despite the fact that the federal government has licensed those call letters since 1947.

The new station is called WAVE and will be broadcast on an FM translator that can be heard at 93.3 in the West Palm Beach market. Previously, the translator was carrying a simulcast of iHeart's over-the-air Country station called WAVE 92.7, but it will now have its own breaks, contests, and commercials, and Bobby Bones in the morning.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America has added Chad Lopez, President of Red Apple Media and 77 WABC New York, and Heather Cohen, Executive Vice President of the Weiss Agency, to its Board of Directors as of its latest meeting.