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She’s not only the founder of Presslaff Interactive, Ruth Presslaff is one of the nicest people in the media business. Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti surprised Presslaff this week at an MIW function at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. Presslaff has been chosen as Radio Ink’s 2019 MIW Legend. Watch the video...

A presentation made by The University of Florida and Futuri Media at the NAB Show on Tuesday stated that YouTube is the number one destination for podcast consumption.

On Tuesday afternoon, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai addressed the topic of FM-band interference, which ramped up when the Commission opened the floodgates to FM translators. Pai said just this week he circulated a draft order to the other Commissioners that includes new rules to address the interference issue and those rules will be voted on at the Commission’s May meeting.

That’s what you can expect in September when the Radio Show takes place in Dallas, according to an announcement made at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Tuesday. This new logo was also unveiled.

Those are the words of Jeff Greenfield, the COO and co-founder of C3 metrics, an attribution platform that measures the impact of media and demonstrates that impact to advertisers.

We were on hand for the awards and it was quite an event. The NAB announced the 10 winners of the 32nd annual NAB Crystal Radio Awards who were chosen from among 50 finalists. Congratulations to all the winning stations!

Alpha Media’s KFOR-AM in Lincoln, NE took home the NAB's Heritage Crystal Award Tuesday at the NAB Show in Vegas. The award recognizes stations that have won a total of five Crystal Radio Awards for their outstanding community service.

Top music and media executives gathered at Freds at Barneys New York on April 4 to honor iHeartMedia’s Bob Pittman, Rich Bressler, John Sykes, and Tom Poleman for their outstanding professional and philanthropic achievements.

It’s a way to hook in younger listeners, according to CEO Jarl Mohn who was interviewed by Amplifi Media CEO Steve Goldstein at the NAB Show, Monday. The average age of an NPR podcast listener is 33 according to Mohn.

The disgraced former WFAN morning host told Michael Kay on WFAN’s biggest competitor in  New York, ESPN 98.7-FM, that WFAN turned him down for an interview so he reached out to Kay. Carton was part of the highly successful morning show with Boomer Esiason before his gambling issues caught up with him and was arrested.