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Cincinnati.com is reporting that Hubbard hopes to buy several vacant lots owned by the City of Cincinnati in Oakley, where it would build a new 30,000-square-foot office building and broadcast facility. The property is valued at $522,000.

Cumulus will be licensing Veritone's aiWARE at stations in the top 50 markets. The Veritone technology provides near real-time advertising intelligence and insights for advertisers and sponsors.

Westwood One’s An American Country Christmas with Kix Brooks is celebrating its 12th year. The program features 24 hours of Christmas classics and an array of top Country stars sharing their favorite holiday memories and traditions.

Sun Broadcast Group and Sun Latino have launched beIN XTRA on over 40 stations across the U.S. beIN XTRA is a daily Spanish-language feature of the most important soccer news of the day.

(By Spike Santee) Very few radio companies set out to be the low cost advertising provider in their respective markets. Very few business owners we call on set out to be the low cost provider in their category either. So how come there's so much focus on promoting low price?

That's according to the latest figures from Standard Media Index. Overall U.S. Ad Revenue was up 7% for the month, with digital gaining 17%, TV was flat, radio was up 7%, out-of-home gained 10% and print was down 27%. October’s national ad market was also up 7% in October.

(By James Bahm) I read Radio Ink's Wednesday article called "Agencies Confused By Advertisers" (as though it is the advertisers' fault that they somehow didn't know what the goals and objectives are). Let's set the record straight.

Millions of dollars is paid by advertisers and brands to ad agencies before a dollar is even spent on your radio stations - or any media. A new study released by ID Comms and the 4A's seems to indicate that, while going through that early dance with clients to get their business, advertising agencies are unclear on what the objectives and goals of those advertisers are. And they blame the advertisers.

Worry no more because programming consultant Tracy Johnson has put together a great blog called "5 Programming Considerations For Holiday Programming."

Applications are still open for the fifth annual Benztown 50 List of Radio’s Biggest Imaging Voices, a listing of radio’s best voiceover artists in the U.S. and Canada. The closing date is December 21. Use our link to apply.