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Seven Mountain Media COO Jim Loftus tells Radio Ink the fourth quarter of 2018 was strong for the company he started with late last year. Loftus also tells us which categories were the strongest for Seven Mountains and how the first quarter of 2019 is shaping up.

In our final "Future of Radio" installment, Media Ecologist Jack Myers tells Radio Ink that with Cumulus and iHeart back on track, radio is "poised to reemerge as a player in the digital ecosystem."

The six stations Alpha is selling off are in Peoria. Ever since Larry Wilson was removed from day-to-day operations of running the company, Alpha has been looking to sell off stations. Duke Wright is the latest beneficiary.

Susie Hedrick is vCreative's new President and Chief Operating Officer. Hedrick will lead sales and operations while also directing the company’s finance and administrative functions. She joins vCreative from WideOrbit where she was SVP of Sales for North America.

Scott James is the owner of SmallTown Broadcasting in Valdosta, GA. He's also the morning show host on the Talk station he owns. James announced on Monday that he is running for Mayor of Valdosta.

The insurance giant returned to the top of the Media Monitors list of radio advertisers after surrendering it to recruiting services company Indeed for a week. GEICO ran a total of 53,501 spots nationally last week.

FOX Sports Radio will debut on WBCN 94.7 FM, 1660AM, and WSOC HD-3, with the official launch taking place on Monday, February 4. Here's the full lineup...

WLS-AM 890 is the University of Illinois' new radio affiliate and will carry all football and men’s basketball games, as well as the seasonal coaches’ shows, through the 2023-24 season.

In part four of our series on the future of radio, broker Ed Henson checks in to give us his thoughts on where radio is headed following the emergence of cleaner balance sheets from iHeart and Cumulus. And he says there are many more great companies out there that we could be focusing on.

(By Bob McCurdy) Maybe it’s time for the conventional wisdom of automatically equating “audience rank” with “quality” and the ingrained habit of “top-down” buying to be kicked to the curb.