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On the radio side, GEICO is constantly battling The Home Depot as the top weekly advertiser. On the podcasting side, GEICO is number one. Procter & Gamble has also taking a liking to this fresh new medium.

Five-time New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk will talk about how to make the best use of multiple media platforms to capture and maintain new audiences.

According to Andrew Marchand of The New York Post, the Yankees and the YES Network are looking into developing YES Radio.

The FCC seems to think so. The Commission’s Media Bureau has designated St. Louis based Entertainment Media Trust for a hearing in front of an Administrative Law Judge to determine whether four EMT stations were controlled by Robert Romanik, who has been convicted of felony offenses.

SAG-AFTRA has launched a billboard campaign aimed at SBS executives and investors. The billboard went up outside SBS’ headquarters in Miami hours before the company’s annual stockholders meeting, which is today.

Next week, the New Jersey Broadcasters Association will hold its 71st Annual Conference & Gala. NJBA CEO Paul Rotella says the theme for 2019 is the Majesty of Broadcast honoring Radio Royalty from across the nation.

Media Monitors and Nielsen Audio have announced a new programming tool they say can reveal changes in PPM listening faster than ever before. The new jointly-developed service, Audio Overnights, is now in beta.

In a press release distributed Wednesday, Cumulus announced it's made a voluntary prepayment of $115 million on its first lien senior secured term loan. So far since emerging from bankruptcy Cumulus has reduced debt by $200 million.

After only one month, Bill O'Reilly's 15-minute daily radio show, The O’Reilly Update, has shot past 125 affiliate station mark. As a result, Key Networks, which syndicates the show, has announced it will debut an O’Reilly Update-Weekend Edition in July.

The error caused a signal from WTOP to be broadcast on several radio and TV stations Monday night. WTOP's Technical Operations Manager Brian Oliger addressed what happened on Twitter, after several viewers caught the snafu and went on social media to complain.