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When WPG Talk Radio Hurley In The Morning host Harry Hurley is named the first-ever New Jersey Broadcast Association Broadcaster of the Year later this week, no doubt he will be thinking about his dad.

An alum of WUEV-FM at the University of Evansville, which is in the process of being sold to WAY FM, tells Radio Ink the students are trying to stop the sale from going through. The sale was announced last month (after the students left for the semester). The students have started a Change.org petition HERE.

It's a story that has been playing out in the press regularly for the past four years. Female country artists do not get a lot of airplay on country radio. Yet, as Kacey Musgraves proved at the 2019 Grammy's, fans love and buy her music. The Washington Post jumped into the fray to try to figure out why she's being ignored by country radio. Here's what Larry Rosin told them.

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.