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"You Look Great." That's what longtime St. Louis Public Radio host Don Marsh said to guest Karen Foss Tuesday. Marsh says as a result of that remark he was called into a managers office and told that what he said was "on the edge." Marsh said, "That's it, I'm done."

Katz Media Group has raised over $45,500 for the Broadcasters Foundation of America during its 10th annual companywide membership drive, bringing the total amount raised to over $350,000 since the drive's inception.

iHeartRadio Lee County Tornado Relief raised over $17,000 that will go towards tornado relief efforts for Lee County, Alabama. Seen here is Barbara Patton, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of East Alabama, being presented with the check.

Borrell & Associates is out with an extensive report on digital advertising and where the dollars are going. The new data shows that spending on digital advertising has tripled, while digital's share of the total advertising pie has doubled. So where does radio fit into all this new data? Let's take a look.

(By Robert Lee) I recently penned a piece for this website that drew a lot of passionate responses from readers who essentially asserted that I am engaging in heresy by calling for the end of AM radio broadcasting in the U.S. and migrating all AM stations to the FM band. I still stand by that.

Bob Papper, Professor Emeritus at Hofstra is out with his annual report on radio news department salaries. Papper reports that news salaries at radio stations increased more slowly in the last year, but for the second year in a row, overall radio news salaries have exceeded inflation in a five-year comparison.

(By Rick Fink) Regardless of what part of the country you live in or what type of business you run, if you ask a business owner today what the most difficult thing about running a company is, they will tell you it's finding good employees. Here are some tips to give you an edge in the marketplace.

On Wednesday morning iHeartMedia filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list its Class "A" common shares. iHeart is exiting from bankruptcy with half the debt it had just over one year ago.

On Tuesday Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti surprised iHeartMedia's Thea Mitchem. Mitchem will be on the cover of our Most Influential Women in Radio issue (5/27). Mitchem is EVP of Programming for iHeart's Northeast Region and PD for WWPR-FM in New York City. We have video.

That's what the iHeartMedia CEO told NBC News Senior Media Editor Claire Atkinson in an interview Tuesday. And, Pittman said, people don’t quite appreciate the nuance of it. So he explained that nuance.