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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)

(By Randy Lane) My best ideas come when I’m hiking solo near my home in the Santa Monica Mountains. If you want to find out how other geniuses got their best creative ideas, read on...

(By Bob McCurdy) I ran into a New York ad agency CEO at the airport last week on my way to the Radio Show. Coincidentally, he was on his way to Orlando to meet with a client. As the weather would have it, we were delayed four hours and had plenty of time to discuss radio and advertising. Clearly, there are still some ghosts in the system.

(By Ed Ryan) Every year at The Radio Show I run into Warren "Koz" Kozireski. He runs the radio station at the State University of New York at Brockport, the station I first worked at and eventually ran as a student manager.

Five thousand pounds of essential items are on their way to Fayettville, NC, from Beasley Augusta. The goods fill a 26-foot box truck.

The 2019 Conclave Summer Learning Conference will be held on June 19th -21st, 2019, at its new location, Delta Hotels Minneapolis Northeast. The 2019 event will celebrate 44 years of educating radio broadcasters next summer.

In a presentation called Miles Different: In-Car Audio, Edison Research President Larry Rosin told Radio Show attendees that the automobile is as important as ever for the audio space and radio is still king in that space.

Among the winners up on stage at the 2018 Radio Show in Orlando were representatives from WMMR in Philadelphia for Rock Station of the year, KRTH-FM in Los Angeles for Classic Hits Station of the Year, and KKBQ Houston for Legendary Station of the year. Here's a list of all the winners.

The 2018 Radio Wayne Award winners were announced Thursday morning at the Advertiser Breakfast at the Radio Show in Orlando. The happy honorees are seen here with Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti — click through to see the full list.