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It's just another indication of how radio takes care of its communities. Curtis Media Group’s  WPLW-FM and WWPL-FM will host a benefit concert on October 20 to benefit those affected by Hurricane Florence. All proceeds will benefit the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund and the American Red Cross.

(By Rick Fink) Before we get into what we should call them, let’s start with this: are you actually conducting regular meetings? If you are, congratulations, and if you’re not, start! You need to ask yourself some tough questions...

By airing 49,390 commercials on stations all over the country, GEICO was radio's number one advertiser last week, according to Media Monitors. The fall television season is heating up and that brings three TV networks over to radio for help.

Connoisseur Media has a new campaign — “One Song, One Us” — which will be launching across all of its radio stations Monday, October 1. The mission of this initiative, which was developed by Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw, is to encourage unity, love, kindness, acceptance, and hope in our communities through the power of music.

At an Advertising Week panel in New York City, Monday, Cumulus Media's Suzanne Grimes announced that Westwood One and XAPPmedia are launching a new program to help national brands enter the voice-enabled ecosystem.

iHeartMedia has announced the lineup for the second annual iHeartRadio ALTer Ego. The alt rock show will take place at the Forum in Los Angeles on January 19, 2019. The lineup will include Twenty One Pilots, The Killers, Muse, Weezer, Rise Against, Bishop Briggs, and The Revivalists.

Alpha Media, N. Dallas-Sherman-McKinney is proud to announce 93.1 Katy Country (KMKT) partnered with Classic of Texoma car dealership to raise $50,000 for the Texoma Back the Badge Foundation with the 2nd Annual Wheeler and Castellanos, Back the Badge Memorial Golf Tournament.

(By Paul Weyland) “The client is never satisfied with the results she gets from our station,” said the salesperson. “They are always threatening to cancel. I’m losing sleep just thinking about it.” Unfortunately, this same scenario plays out every single day in every size market. The client just never gets enough response to continue to justify his advertising.

iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman will moderate a panel at the 2018 Advertising Week New York that includes Bobby Bones show co-host Amy Brown, Enrique Santos, Elvis Duran and Stephanie Ruhle, the anchor of MSNBC Live.

Andy Alcosser is the D.O.S. for Connoisseur Media in Milford, CT. Tony Bellantoni is a senior AE in the cluster. Andy and Tony introduced us to Bill Keough from Keough’s Paint & Hardware, which has two locations in Connecticut. It's a family-owned business, started in 1972 by Bill’s mom and dad. Keough gives a lot of the credit for his success to his use of radio and the relationship he’s built up over the years with Andy and Tony. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)