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(By Randy Lane) The most important thing you can do for your audience and your community on Monday and Tuesday is to use your voice and your influence to get out the vote. Why? Remember how we were taught as broadcasters to “serve the needs and interests of your communities of license”? Well, that's one reason. Here are some others...

(By Bob McCurdy) Too often, when it comes to radio research, the latest and greatest study becomes the topic du jour, gets a lot of focus and attention for about a week, and then is quickly relegated to the dustbin of research past.

(By Ronald Robinson) Although touted as an entertainment/information/advertising service, what would be the implications if radio were, instead, considered a product? It is important to realize that radio, generally, is too often accepted as questionable as an entertainment medium, suppressed as an information medium, and haphazard as an advertising medium.

Our thanks to syndicated talker Lars Larson for this weeks advertiser success story. Lars has been working with Sleep Number Bed for two decades and he reached out to Radio Ink to let us know how consistent radio advertising and great storytelling with live reads can be a gold mine for advertisers. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

The NAB Education Foundation offers its excellent Technology Apprenticeship Program each year to select candidates. TAP provides graduating college seniors with the connections and experience to start successful careers in media technology.

Excluding political revenue, Beasley's same station revenue was down 3%. When the company includes revenue from the purchase of WBZ-FM in Boston, the sale of WMJX-FM in Boston and a partial quarter contribution from the purchase from WXTU-FM Philadelphia, there was a 10.6% overall increase in net revenue for the quarter ($6.2 million).

On Friday Barbara and Don Curtis donated over $21 million to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the Curtis Foundation. Don Curtis is the CEO of Curtis Media.

After more than two years, thousands of dollars in legal and technical expense and the loss of thousands of WLUS-FM listeners in Durham, Wake, Orange and parts of Granville County NC, interference from an Arohi Media translator has finally been eliminated.

Can you imagine Tim Cook hopping on his private jet and heading to Biloxi or Toledo to check in with management to see how those iHeart clusters are doing? Probably not. It's more likely, if there is interest from Apple, it has to do with adding Apple Music on iHeart's massive platform and access to music labels.

Urban One CEO Alfred Liggins says his radio division revenue in Q4 will be up double digits and he feels more optimistic heading into a new year than he has in a long time. Urban One's radio stations are pacing up 20% for Q4, 10% excluding political.