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The company run by Chuck Williams has closed on the purchase of seven stations and translators from Great Lakes Radio in the Marquette, Michigan market. mediaBrew was founded by Williams in 2018. His goal is to own stations in Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois.

Does that mean Meruelo Media may be sniffing around for radio stations to purchase in the Phoenix market? It just might.

Registration for the 2020 Country Radio Seminar opens Thursday at 10 a.m. CT. The early bird rate of $549 is only good for one day. The price will increase to $599 on Friday. Registrations will be available for purchase at CountryRadioSeminar.com.

Ed Hammond started his radio career in 1974 at Gospel/Christian station WPEO in Peoria. He'll end his career this week at WMBD, also in Peoria, where he's been since 2000, covering local news, doing play-by-play sports, and as the News Director for the past five years.

At The Crossing Board, Kevin Kinkead wrote about an ESPN poll that asked fans for feedback about politics in sports. Kinkead posted a tweet that included some of the results from the poll including the stat that 74% of fans prefer not to hear about politics on any of its platforms.

Those are the words of Mitch Russo, founder of ResultsBreakthrough.com, and former CEO of the Tony Robbins & Chet Holmes Business Breakthrough. On Tuesday, we highlighted Russo's column in Forbes where he described how radio helped build his business with Tony Robbins. Today, we have an audio interview with Russo.

CEO James Meyer says there still a few things that need to happen before podcasting reaches a mega audience. During SiriusXM's second quarter earnings call, Meyer referred to podcasting as a flea market.

Total Q2 revenue came in at $2 billion with SiriusXM at $1.5 billion and Pandora clocking in at $441 million.

Cox Media Group Atlanta’s News powerhouse WSB hosted its 19th annual Care-a-Thon this week. The 37-hour event raised over $1.7 million for research and programs at the Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, nearly breaking the record set in 2017.

Some of the featured artists for the 2019 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami have been announced, and fans of Latin music are going to be very pleased.