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The City of Las Vegas is swarming with broadcasters as the NAB Show officially kicks off today with NAB CEO Gordon Smith opening the event at 10:15.

Radio Ink has been following the story of former WFAN morning man Craig Carton since his arrest last September for running a Ponzi scheme. Carton was subsequently found guilty, last November. On Friday, the former jock received a 3 1/2-year sentence.

(By Randy Lane) The importance of radio’s local orientation has surged since 2016, according to Jacobs Media’s 2019 tech survey. You don’t want to be local just to be local. Be sure local content is relevant to your audience. It must be A or at least B-level content for listeners to care.

(By Bob McCurdy) With the NCAA basketball tourney on many of our minds today, it’s only appropriate to reflect upon the role “practice” played in getting these teams to where they are. How important is practice?

(By Lisa Thal) I started to think about what it takes for companies to dominate their competitors. The core strategy behind any company that dominates its competition and creates customer loyalty is to anticipate and meet its customers’ needs in a way that no one else does.

(By Ronald Robinson) Companionship. Now, there’s a term, rife with all the warm, fuzzy, and comfy qualities that, if it were a Dairy Queen treat, would be “gushing with goodness in each rich, creamy, and satisfying mouthful.”

It’s a new show with a pretty strange name: The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. The nationally syndicated program is produced by Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI) and currently broadcast to nine stations in three states.

The radio world was rocked Thursday when word started to travel around that former Bonneville and Hubbard Radio leader Bruce Reese died after battling a long illness. Reese was on Radio Ink's 40 Most Powerful People in Radio list for 19 consecutive years (1996-2014) and received our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He was 70 years old.

Radio Ink is proud to announce that Forecast 2020 will be co-chaired by Cumulus CEO Mary Berner. Forecast is the radio industry’s most respected and influential annual financial conference. Forecast 2020 is November 20 at The Harvard Club in New York City.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell spoke at the recent National Religious Broadcasters Media Convention in California where he told attendees how radio has been instrumental to his success.