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On Monday, Marketron unveiled The Ultimate Guide to Digital Sales Compensation for Media Companies, a new resource aimed at assisting media companies in optimizing digital sales compensation strategies.

The 80 year old sportscaster, who was fired by Imus back in December, says in the suit that Imus routinely cracked "inappropriate" jokes about his age, such as "time to put Wolf out to pasture" and "shoot him with an elephant dart gun." Now Wolf has filed a lawsuit against his former friend.

Former NAB CEO Gordon Smith has been nominated by the Beasley Media Group Board of Directors to be added to the slate of Directors to be presented at the annual shareholders meeting on May 25th. The official unanimous vote took place during the company’s Board of Director’s meeting on March 31, 2022.

(By Art Vuolo) Every now and then TV bows to Radio. Such is the case with a special documentary which will showcase Detroit’s legendary Robin Seymour. Often regarded as the local version of Dick Clark with his popular teen dance show called “Swingin’ Time.”

RAB SVP of Insights Annette Malave's latest blog highlight's the importance of radio in local communities. She says that with nearly 1,800 newspapers either disappearing or merging with other publications since 2004, radio is more important than ever. Get all the details HERE. .

(By Pat Bryson) If you've ever been around children between the ages of 3 and 6, you've probably grown to hate hearing the question, "Why?" Children have an innate curiosity about the world and want to know "Why?" about everything.

Alex Riemer disparaged Tom Brady's daughter back on January 25. An apology was posted to the WEEI website on Friday, February 23, with an accompanying 2:30 audio clip.

La Mega Media and Steel City Media have partnered to bring the first Spanish language radio station to serve the growing Hispanic community in Pittsburgh. La Mega 92.9 HD2 (WLTJ) debuts May 1st.

In its newly released Local Advertising Forecast, BIA Advisory Services estimates total local advertising revenue will reach $137.5 billion in 2021, a 2.5% increase from the firm’s final post-COVID estimate for 2020 of $134.1 billion. BIA projects radio will pull in $12.6 Billion.

Politico is reporting that Democrat Pete Buttigieg is running radio ads targeting rural voters in Iowa. Politco reports the spots criticise President Trump as "too focused on the stock market and not enough on rural America."