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This advertiser success story is from KCLR-FM, a Zimmer Radio Group station in Columbia, MO. According to Megan Black at Second Street, the company that helped KCLR execute the idea, the client took in $9,000 from the idea, over 75 hot leads and 240 opt-ins. And for KCLE it was a $2,500 sale. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media).

A Maryland marijuana panel has approved a ban on all cannabis advertising. The Baltimore Sun reports that The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission was unanimous in its vote Thursday to eliminate all advertising on radio, TV, billboards and most digital.

That's what iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman and CFO Rich Bressler want employees of radio's biggest company to know. In recent weeks, there have been reports that both Apple and Liberty Media are kicking the iHeart tires.

Everyone loves a list, especially when it involves taking a peek at someone else's salary. Forbes is out with its annual list of radio's highest paid hosts. Combined, the top five, all men, made nearly $300 million. The King-of-all-media is still number one.

As if making the Forbes list of highest-paid hosts wasn't enough, Mediaite has named Sean Hannity the most influential figure in the news media.

More than 200 small to medium markets will benefit from monthly reporting by Nielson Audio, as quarterly and twice-a-year diary reports are phased out. Details about those changes, first revealed this fall, were the focus of a Thursday webinar hosted by Nielsen.

And Westwood One News is offering affiliates a series of 20 Year in Review reports featuring one-minute vignettes showcasing many of the year’s biggest stories. Also being offered up to affiliates will be two long-form Year in Review programs.

Dallas New Country station 96.3 KSCS raised $175,670 during its 5th Annual KSCS Cook Children’s Radiothon, which took place Saturday, December 1. Cook Children’s is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital.

iHeartMedia AM 570 LA Sports will host the 11th annual Help-A-Hero Veterans Radio-thon, December 12 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh stations 100.7 STAR (WBZZ-FM) and Y108 (WDSY-FM) will hold “A Concert for Unity” to benefit the rebuilding of Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation in Steel City. The event will be broadcast live on both stations on December 2.