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It took two hours for jurors to convict Ferdinand Augello of murder Tuesday. April Kauffman was shot to death back in 2012 and authorities allege that Augello and Kauffman's husband, Dr. James Kauffman, wanted her dead before she exposed their OxyContin drug ring.

(By Gary Berkowitz) To get some solid advice on how to make live testimonial reads more successful, I spoke with Peter Connolly. Peter owns LIVE, The Personality Advertising Specialists in Detroit. He creates and manages live local radio endorsement campaigns all over the U.S.

Get ahead of the next jump in technology at Forecast 2019 as Beasley's EVP/Strategy and Innovation Buzz Knight sits with Ben Arnold, Senior Director/Innovation & Trends at Consumer Technology Association, for an interview on the trends and gadgets that will affect your budgets and bottom line.

FEMA and the FCC are conducting a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Wednesday. The EAS portion of the test, which will be sent to radio and television, will be at 2:20 p.m. EDT. This is the fourth nationwide EAS test. Here are more details...

The two companies are teaming up to draw juniors and seniors from universities nationwide into broadcast sales through the P1 Futures Program. vCreative’s underwriting allows P1 Learning to continue its two-week pop-up curriculum at colleges which is designed to educate college students on a career in broadcast sales.

Skyview Networks has signed a multi-year partnership with the NFL’s Washington Redskins for AdView Inventory Management software and Live Read Capture system.

Under a new agreement, Entercom Washington, DC, stations will provide coverage of the NFL’s Washington Redskins across all of their platforms. Spanish broadcasts of all Redskins football games will be heard on El Zol Deportes (WJFK-AM) in DC, as well as the station’s website, elzoldeportes.com, a part of the Radio.com network.

iHeartMedia Houston and the Houston Rockets are extending their partnership to keep Sportstalk 790 AM as the home of the NBA team. Rockets fans will continue to hear all regular season games, in addition to pre-game, post-game, and all other Rockets-related programming on Sportstalk 790 AM.

The company's foray into Esports is called BEASLEY XP and kicks off with the acquisition of the syndicated Esports gaming lifestyle radio show, CHECKPOINT RADIO. The announcement was made Tuesday at the 2018 Esports Business Summit at in Vegas. Pictured with CEO Caroline Beasley are co-hosts Nathan Bender and Joe Sloan.

It's all about the data. Last week at The Radio Show in Orlando, a lot of time was dedicated to data and what radio stations can do with it to generate more revenue. General Motors has gotten into the data collection business and the automotive giant is using radio as a way to collect it.