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Greenville, SC’s Fox Sports 1440 and ESPN Asheville 1400 have signed a broadcast agreement with the Atlanta Braves, and will be the official Atlanta Braves Radio Network affiliates in Greenville, SC, and Asheville, NC.

Westwood One’s Red Eye Radio is turning up the heat in Louisville as it celebrates its 50th anniversary at this year’s Mid-America Trucking Show. The golden anniversary celebration will feature a guest appearance by Grammy-winning Country singer Gretchen Wilson.

Mason City, Iowa’s KIAI held its St. Jude Radiothon February 21-22 at Window World of Mason City, and raised $69,053 — over $1,000 more than last year and their highest total ever.

This story will have many managers across the country firing up their computers to make sure their online public file is current. The FCC is investigating Entercom after a complaint was filed against the company's Buffalo cluster claiming a Congressional candidate was overcharged in 2018.

WAMO-FM in Pittsburgh was burglarized Monday. According to GM Jamal Woodson, over $10,000 worth of equipment was taken. The station posted a surveillance video on Facebook which shows a man wandering around the station, to make sure nobody's there, before he walks off with computers, speakers, microphones and other equipment.

Next up in our series with successful sales managers is Greg Davis Jr., VP/Atlanta MM for Davis Broadcasting. Based in Columbus, GA, this family-owned group, with more than 30 years in the industry, has six stations in Columbus and another six in Atlanta.

WNSH-FM is now New York’s Country 94-7. Entercom made the branding change from NASH-FM, Monday. The company picked up the station in a swap with Cumulus in February.

Radio Ink covered the topic back on March 14 with Frank Montero's help. Broadcast Attorney David Oxenford says that recently he's gotten more questions about advertising for CBD products than any other topic. He says whether or not you should take CBD advertising is confusing and he tries to calm your anxiety about the issue in his latest blog posting.

Samsung Galaxy Smartphones has jumped from seventh to second on Media Monitors weekly chart of radio’s leading advertisers. But GEICO held firm at top spot.

The two companies say the integration of vPromotions into Aptivada will streamline online contests and promotions. The integration utilizes API technology to synchronize rules, winner information and other data to allow fast and efficient set up, execution and fulfillment of all web contesting.