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The MBA Institute begins today and runs through Wednesday, August 7 at Northwest Missouri State University. John Zimmer, President of Zimmer Radio, will open the event.

WLZL El Zol 107.9 in College Park, MD, has just raised $361,052.00 for St Jude Children’s Hospital, making the station’s four-year total over $1.3 million.

(By Randy Lane) Management and talent often struggle with how to approach sensitive subjects trending in the news. The recent ESPN Dan Le Batard controversy is a perfect example of a viral topic that has everyone weighing in with an opinion.

(By Bob McCurdy) Too many of us think once we’ve graduated from college, continued and focused study is no longer necessary. Actually it is just the opposite. In college we were “amateurs,” paying someone to educate us. In the business world we are “professionals,”

(By Ronald Robinson) Radio, desperately and absolutely, needs to get back into the kitchen. Even when radio delivers some fairly decent ROIs, it does so because, so often, the actual investment on the part of advertisers is so shamelessly low

Authorities in Central Texas are trying to find the person responsible for knocking several M&M Broadcasting stations off the air. PD David Smoak said wires and cables were cut and the stations went dark.

iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman is one of the Most Powerful People in Radio. He has been since joining the radio industry in late 2010. And, he's been on Radio Ink's 40 Most Powerful People in Radio list since 2011. Our 2019 list is out. Here's a portion of our interview with Pittman in that issue.

Things got testy on WMPR's Wanda Evers show when two local lawmakers got into a profanity laced argument live on the air. It is politics after all, so it would seem to be par for the course in today's political climate. Here are the details from this silliness.

On Thursday, Holland (Michigan) Mayor Nancy DeBoer went on WHTC's Talk of The Town radio show. On the program, the Mayor said she disapproved of the touring Michigan Drag Brunch group coming to town to perform. Here's what happened after that.

(By Laurie Kahn) We hear from many of you how either an interviewee didn’t show up or about new hires who walk out the door without a word after only a short time of employment. How frustrating! What a waste of time and money!