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Listening to the radio is just as bad as walking to your mailbox this time of the year. Politics has become nothing more than a race to see who can tear their opponent down the most. The attack ads are everywhere -- on your radio stations and arriving daily in stacks of direct mail pieces to mailboxes across the country.

Forecast is November 14 in New York at the Harvard Club. If you are a radio industry decision-maker, or your business depends on the decisions that will be made in the coming year by those who are attending, register now and join your peers at Forecast.

WCBS-FM New York morning man Scott Shannon will host the 30th Annual National Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in New York City on November 15. Shannon is a 2006 National Radio Hall of Fame inductee.

On the heels of Good Karma flipping WKTI from Country to Sports in Milwaukee, Magnum Media has decided to flip WVTY-FM (92.1) from Adult Hits to Country. 92.1.

Entercom has flipped 959 RNB in Austin with HOT 95.9 (KKMJ-HD3). The station will now include artists from the 1990s and 2000s, including Snoop Dogg, Beyoncé, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and Alicia Keys. KKMJ 95.9 is a translator.

Alpha Media, Alaska, station KAYO-FM/Olympia, WA, can take a bow: they collected 3,000 pounds of food for Frontline Mission on Saturday, October 27.

In a market with a lot of heritage when it comes to spoken word programming serving its many Spanish speakers, something remarkable can be seen when looking at the most recent Nielsen Audio ratings for Miami-Fort Lauderdale.

The former WFAN morning show co-host is on trial for allegedly swindling investors out of millions of dollars in a ticket resale business, in part, to pay his gambling debts.

What do you do when your station promotion attracts 20,000 attendees, generates incredible buzz and brings in serious revenue? You cancel it, of course. Here's why Entercom ending the event was exactly the right thing to do.

Saga Communications has entered into an agreement to purchase WOGK(FM), WNDT(FM), WNDD(FM), and WNDN(FM) from Ocala Broadcasting Corporation. All the stations serve the Gainesville-Ocala, Florida, radio market. The price was just over $9 million.