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The Boston Globe has the details about listeners tuning in in droves to listen to both The Sports Hub (CBS) and WEEI (Entercom) during the fall.

Broadcast attorney David Oxenford details the SiriusXM/Turtles case shot down by the New York State Court of Appeals earlier this week, in his latest blog posting. If you thought that would be the end of the case, Oxenford says this is not the last we'll be hearing about pre-1972 recordings. Here's why...

While mourners held a candlelight vigil Tuesday for SBS New York DJ Jean Paul Guerrero (DJ Jinx Paul) police were still searching for the hit-and-run driver who killed him early Monday morning in Brooklyn.

WTMJ will roll out its new lineup after the holiday season (January 3) now that Charlie Sykes has ended his 23-year run on the Milwaukee powerhouse. Here's what they have planned...

2017 will see ESPN Radio celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the network will broadcast an anniversary special on Wednesday, January 4, from 7-9 p.m. It will also be re-aired periodically throughout the year. Keith Olbermann will host, with guests Tony Bruno and Chuck Wilson.

SOS Radio 90.5/Las Vegas doesn’t want any child to feel left out this Christmas. The station partnered with Hope for Prisoners to create 17 personal living room areas for 17 families to eat and open gifts from their incarcerated parent. Twelve of the 17 families were surprised by the parent personally showing up to greet their children with gifts.

A total of 474 brand-new bicycles have been collected by Alpha Media in Fort Dodge, IA, to donate to Operation Christmas: Church Women United and Upper Des Moines Opportunity through the Bikes for Tykes event. Both organizations serve families in several counties in the Fort Dodge area.

In return, the holders of the 2018 senior notes at 10% will receive priority guarantee notes at 11.25%. The new notes will mature on March 1, 2021 and iHeart will pay interest on the new notes March 1 and September 1 of each year. The first interest payment date on the new notes will be March 1, 2017.

On Tuesday, New York’s highest appeals court ruled (READ THE RULING) that companies like SiriusXM do not have to pay to play pre-1972 recordings. The court ruled that New York's common law doesn't protect the public performance of pre-1972 sound recordings.

Attorney Helene Freeman, who recently served as co-counsel in Led Zeppelin’s major US court victory over the rights to "Stairway to Heaven" spoke to Radio Ink about Tuesday's New York Court of Appeals ruling in the Flo & Eddie/SiriusXM case. She says this will probably spell the death knell for efforts to secure performance rights for pre-1972 sound recordings in the courts under existing law. Here's where she thinks this issue should go...