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(By Ronald Robinson) Companionship. Now, there’s a term, rife with all the warm, fuzzy, and comfy qualities that, if it were a Dairy Queen treat, would be “gushing with goodness in each rich, creamy, and satisfying mouthful.”

It’s a new show with a pretty strange name: The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. The nationally syndicated program is produced by Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI) and currently broadcast to nine stations in three states.

The radio world was rocked Thursday when word started to travel around that former Bonneville and Hubbard Radio leader Bruce Reese died after battling a long illness. Reese was on Radio Ink's 40 Most Powerful People in Radio list for 19 consecutive years (1996-2014) and received our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He was 70 years old.

Radio Ink is proud to announce that Forecast 2020 will be co-chaired by Cumulus CEO Mary Berner. Forecast is the radio industry’s most respected and influential annual financial conference. Forecast 2020 is November 20 at The Harvard Club in New York City.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell spoke at the recent National Religious Broadcasters Media Convention in California where he told attendees how radio has been instrumental to his success.

"You Look Great." That's what longtime St. Louis Public Radio host Don Marsh said to guest Karen Foss Tuesday. Marsh says as a result of that remark he was called into a managers office and told that what he said was "on the edge." Marsh said, "That's it, I'm done."

Katz Media Group has raised over $45,500 for the Broadcasters Foundation of America during its 10th annual companywide membership drive, bringing the total amount raised to over $350,000 since the drive's inception.

iHeartRadio Lee County Tornado Relief raised over $17,000 that will go towards tornado relief efforts for Lee County, Alabama. Seen here is Barbara Patton, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of East Alabama, being presented with the check.

Borrell & Associates is out with an extensive report on digital advertising and where the dollars are going. The new data shows that spending on digital advertising has tripled, while digital's share of the total advertising pie has doubled. So where does radio fit into all this new data? Let's take a look.

(By Robert Lee) I recently penned a piece for this website that drew a lot of passionate responses from readers who essentially asserted that I am engaging in heresy by calling for the end of AM radio broadcasting in the U.S. and migrating all AM stations to the FM band. I still stand by that.