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(By James Bahm) Walking into a client's office for a Client Needs Analysis allows you to learn not only about their challenges and growth opportunities, but, if done correctly, you can learn a great deal about their customers, and target consumers. 

The Michael Baisden Show is returning to Detroit. Starting Monday, Baisden's show will be heard on 910AM from 5 p.m.–7 p.m. Monday-Friday.

It's what every person connected to radio said needed to happen. Once Radio's biggest company got its financial house in order, the entire industry would benefit, investors and advertisers would feel more comfortable.

ASCAP announced on Wednesday that revenue for 2018 topped $1.2 billion, an increase of 7% over 2017. Over $1 billion of that was paid out in royalties to songwriters, composers, and publishers. Distributions increased by $102 million, up 10% year-over-year.

The NAB is now accepting nominations for the 2019 NAB Marconi Radio Awards until May 31. Finalists will be announced in July. 

On September 26, the winners will be announced during the NAB Marconi Radio Awards Dinner & Show at the Radio Show in Dallas.

CBS News Radio and CBS Audio will launch Security Matters with Paul Viollis, a new daily series of feature segments and a podcast covering safety and security issues facing Americans. The feature launches Monday on the CBS News Radio Network.

The Country Radio Broadcasters has opened ticket sales for the 2019 Country Radio Hall of Fame Induction Dinner and Awards ceremony, to be held Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University.

Headliner creates social media video for audio creators and has entered into a partnership with Entercom. “Video has become a medium that all audio producers need to take advantage of to drive discovery and engagement,” said Corey Podolsky, Vice President of Business Development at Entercom.

(By Gary Berkowitz) There are a few areas to carefully look at as we enter this new territory. If listeners don't know you're there and if they don't know who to ask for, smart speakers will be just one more technology that radio will compete with versus be a part of.

Another sign the industry is not totally united on lifting the ownership limits. And we shall see if this FCC takes into account that two important minority groups, in addition to iHeartMedia, do not want to see any additional deregulation.