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Sun Broadcast Group will now sell and syndicate Little Steven’s Underground Garage. The show, heard on over 80 stations, was previously syndicated by USRN.

The Phoenix Country station’s morning show hosts Chris Matthews and Nina D., along with Packages From Home, asked Valley residents to write 53,000 “Thank You” letters to the troops this holiday season in an effort called “Chris & Nina’s Big Thank You.”

The company, which provides cloud-based artificial intelligence media analytics and cognitive solutions, has signed agreements with Cumulus' New York, L.A. and Chicago markets to license Veritone’s Cognitive Media Platform to provide near real-time audio capture, indexing and analytics.

In a White Paper to the Trump transition team the nonprofit representing 2,000 news organizations says the digital age has vastly changed the way we disseminate and receive information and it urged the Trump team to change several laws governing the news media.

While radio is still trying to figure out how to monetize its social media accounts without alienating listeners, local advertisers are continuing to migrate to social media to build their companies. That's according to a new report from Borrell and Associates.

Wisconsin talker Mitch Henck forgot all about an interview he had scheduled with House Speaker Paul Ryan. That is until Henck started taking calls and there was listener "Paul" waiting to go on the air.

Southern California Public Radio station 89.3 KPCC-FM has added a signal booster to improve its coverage of the west side of Los Angeles. Listeners west of the 405 Freeway, including those in Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Sawtelle, and Brentwood, should now experience a stronger signal with less interference from other stations on the same or adjacent radio frequencies. The project took two years.

The Cumulus Country station was there for the community on December 28-29 as wildfires raged in Gatlinburg. News coverage and community response, outreach and collaboration, raising resources and delivering aid were the key services the station helped with. The country music community was also out in force.

The satellite company has agreed to settle a copyright lawsuit brought by Flo and Eddie of the Turtles for songs it played that were recorded before 1972. Pre-1972 sound recordings are not protected by federal copyright. Here are the details of the proposed settlement...

In looking at the deals of the past year, we reached out to some of the top brokers in the industry to get their opinions on the year that’s just concluding, what the multiples will be in 2017, and where the money will come from when investors decide they want to be part of the industry.