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This past Friday our guest was Shannon Hernandez from Hubbard's KUPD-FM in Phoenix. In addition to his 20-year career on the Arizona rock station, Shannon is also a successful podcaster. If you're thinking about becoming a podcaster this is the one show YOU MUST LISTEN TO.

(By Bob McCurdy) Preselling reflects a belief that business must be continuously earned, and one of the most effective ways it is earned is by consistently communicating what differentiates your media assets from the competition's before the buyer or client needs to make a purchasing decision.

Chris Lytle gets things started as the opening speaker at the 13th annual Kellar Radio Talent Institute at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Lytle, of Instant Sales Training and a bestselling author, will be speaking to 24 students accepted into this year’s Institute.

(By Andrew Curran) Frequent flyers on American Airlines account for just 13% of total passengers but deliver 50% of annual revenue. In a similar way for radio, consumption is driven by the heavy listeners who deliver, on average, four times the occasions and TSL as light users.

iHeartCountry will once again serve as the official radio partner of the CMT Music Awards, simulcasting the live show from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, June 5, at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT.

In a nearly 90-minute podcast, Radio Hall of Famer Chuck Schaden talks to Dave Plier about the history of WGN including the launch of call letters W-G-N when the Chicago Tribune assumed control of WJAZ, The Zenith Edgewater Beach Hotel station in 1924.

We thought it was appropriate to bring this story back up being that so many of our readers were going back to it and commenting on this being WPLJ's last day.

One of radio's most successful partner businesses is being sold. vCreative CEO Jinny Laderer has announced the company she founded with her husband John, is being purchased by Banyan Software, a company that acquires enterprise software businesses. Over 4,400 stations use vCreative's cloud-based workflow software.

On Monday, with help from The Salem Radio Network, the KJJC Media Group will launch "The Place 1230 AM, KJJC, Common Sense Talk Radio."

In a 90-page rebuttal to comments submitted to the FCC opposing relaxing the current ownership rules, the NAB defines them as "backward," by actually starting their comments with the dictionary definition. “Backward” (adverb) – in the reverse of the usual or right way.”