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Highlights from the event included The ​Randy Lane Company’s Jeff McHugh (pictured here) revealing the most effective way to coach talent, Nike’s Steve Bence​ sharing how one of the world's biggest brands created their "Just Do It" culture and The secrets to imaging a winning radio station, provided by ​Gorilla Sound.

The NBA’s Boston Celtics announced a multi-year extension with Beasley Media Group’s 98.5 The Sports Hub, Wednesday. The station has been the official flagship station of the Celtics since 2013 and it will continue to be “for many years to come.”

WICC600/Bridgeport has partnered with IMG Sports to be Southern Connecticut’s home for the University of Connecticut’s Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams, starting November 8.

In August 2018, the regional Mexican station in Los Angeles that stood out from the pack is LBI Media's KBUE-FM "Qué Buena>" In this latest Hispanic Radio Podcast, produced for the 2018 Radio Show in Orlando, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson catches up with Mariano Amador, GSM of the radio stations owned and operated by Liberman Broadcasting in Southern California.

Educational Media Foundation has agreed to purchase WCPT (FM) licensed to DeKalb, IL from WDEK, an Illinois corporation. The purchase price is $1,600,000.

iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman and Entercom CEO David Field believe data will move the revenue needle higher for radio. We heard much of the same from the two CEOs about radio’s effectiveness, about how it’s the least disruptive medium, and how radio is everyone’s companion. So how is data going to take radio to the next level?

Beasley’s Executive Vice President of Programming, Justin Chase, says that’s exactly what’s happening at his company. Chase was on a panel at Kurt Hanson’s RAIN Conference in Orlando. He used WMMR’s Preston & Steve (who are pictured here) as an example.

At the RAIN Conference in Orlando, Tuesday morning, four college students from the University of Central Florida took to the stage for “The Gen Z Panel.” They were asked if they ever listen to the radio. Here’s what they had to say…

Last night The House passed the modified version of the Music Modernization Act, it received from the Senate, after that body approved the Act last week. All that’s left for it to become law is a presidential signature.

We’re guessing you already know the answer to that question, but just in case you don’t, here’s what Edison Research is saying about where consumers listen to all types of audio most of the time.