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Mike Golic and Trey Wingo, hosts of Golic & Wingo, have donated 500 gifts to Toys for Tots on behalf of ESPN Radio. The studio was filled with 500 toys, and four members of the Marines were on-set to accept the donations.

Back in the early 2000s Gary Gauthier paid for airtime on Salem owned Christian station WBTN in Tampa. He hosted a show called "It's God's Money," and told listeners God wanted people to get into real estate and he knew where there were great opportunities.

Volunteer blood donors provided a total of 2232 donations in last weekend’s KSHE Winter Blood Drive. Donations from the KSHE Winter Blood Drive will provide a much-needed boost to the region’s blood supply in the days leading up to Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

Gordon Borrell is on the cover of the current issue of Radio Ink. Borrell tells it like it is about radio, digital, and the future of local media. Borrell Associates is one of the most trusted sources of trends and forecasts for local media today.

101 ESPN, St. Louis, have signed a five-year contract extension with the ESPN Radio Network, effective January 1, 2019. The deal coincides with the station’s 10-year anniversary. The station was launched on January 1, 2009.

(By Ronald Robinson) What has happened to creativity in radio? Wouldn't it be in everyone's interest if, for example, copy was written by professional copywriters and bore the hallmarks of originality and engagement? Let's take a look.

Ed Wallace from KLIF’s Saturday morning show Wheels with Ed Wallace teamed up with Kwik Kar Industries for the 30th Annual KLIF Kids Toy Drive, raising over $46,000 for kids.

iHeartMedia has teamed up with Atlanta content outfit Tenderfoot TV to launch Monster: The Zodiac Killer. The podcast will debut exclusively on iHeartMedia broadcast radio stations around the U.S. on January 2 at 7 p.m. local time.

(By Rick Fink) If every employee were hardworking, organized, driven, unselfish, focused, and time conscious, there really wouldn’t be a need for managers. But that’s not the case.

Former CBS Radio and Scripps executive Tom Langmyer certainly stirred the pot yesterday with his comments about local radio, big market radio and where he believes things are headed. In case you missed his column, here it is again, and the many comments we received from our readers.