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Make no mistake about it, this deal is about the growth of podcasting and how these two companies plan to take advantage of that. PRI is a creator and curator of journalism and storytelling, and PRX focuses on and audio technology (like Podcasting). The two companies announced on Wednesday they were merging.

We reported back in June that WGOW Chattanooga host Jeff Styles was charged with aggravated assault and vandalism after he was shot when he approached a vehicle with a tomahawk in a road rage incident. His case has been referred to a grand jury. Now in a new podcast on his website Styles says he "was stalked, terrorized, and shot while acting in self-defense."

(By Walter Sterling) Radio station lobbies are the point of critical failure, or success, when engaging listeners. Actually engaging listeners: Physically engaging listeners! When visiting your station, a listener may have a profound, positive life event or a  disappointing one. Let's talk about parlaying prizewinners into marketing coups.

This is a follow-up to a story we ran back on July 6 when students from William Paterson University went to Puerto Rico to help build a radio station there. Now representatives from the university tell Radio Ink that Brave New Radio (WPSC-FM 88.7) and Radio Vieques (WVQR-FM) have signed an agreement establishing an official sister-station relationship between the two stations.

It’s the 50th anniversary of Country Radio Seminar and registration opens today, August 15, at the early bird rate of $499. Prospective attendees should note that the early bird rate will only be offered for one day, starting at 10 a.m. CDT and closing at 12 a.m. CDT. The price will then increase to $549.

ABC Radio will provide four three-hour specials to affiliates for use over Labor Day weekend: Rock and Roll Labor Day Salute (hosted by Johnny Van Zant), A Labor Day Salute to Country Kids (hosted by Little Big Town), America Works: Ten Years Since the Great Recession (hosted by ABC News Radio correspondent Aaron Katersky), and The 2018 Back to School Special (hosted by ABC News Radio correspondent Alex Stone).

That's according to a new blog posted by Westwood One's Senior Director for National & Local Insights Doug Hyde who says the podcasting ecosystem offers seemingly endless choices for news, information, opinions, entertainment, and storytelling.

(By Laurie Kahn) There are a few broadcasters who have done an outstanding job of reaching out to the younger generations. Overall, most of us really need to embrace big changes in how to “attract, hire, and retain” all ages, and not just the younger groups.

After knocking The Home Depot from the number one position on the Media Monitors weekly chart last week, GEICO remains radio's number one advertiser for the second week in a row after airing 43,097 commercials on radio stations all across the country.

(By John Garziglia) Alex Jones, a self-described libertarian and paleoconservative and publisher of the infowars.com website, is broadcast on 114 radio stations. Recently, his content was removed by YouTube, Facebook and Apple. Is there a case to be made that radio stations should likewise question his broadcast content?