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Wednesday night Skyview Networks, CBS Audio and ABC Radio kicked off the upfront season with an event called “Experience Beyond.” In attendance were some of radio's biggest network radio advertisers.

The CBS News Radio Network is launching a new program called CBS Connect, which will provide news, entertainment, and information for music stations. CBS Connect will also produce a morning show prep service that includes actualities, daily audio features, written stories, and digital content.

The NAB's PILOT innovation initiative will offer up to 10 scholarships of $5,000 each to current college sophomores, juniors, and seniors entering graduate school, as well as graduate students, for pursuit of studies related to broadcast engineering, media technology, and innovation.

Katie Philippi is the Sales Manager for Alpha Media in Lincoln, NE. Last week, Katie took home the Radio Ink Radio Wayne award for top sales manager in the country at the Radio Show in Orlando. Katie tells Radio Ink she felt pure joy when she heard her name called by Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti.

It took two hours for jurors to convict Ferdinand Augello of murder Tuesday. April Kauffman was shot to death back in 2012 and authorities allege that Augello and Kauffman's husband, Dr. James Kauffman, wanted her dead before she exposed their OxyContin drug ring.

(By Gary Berkowitz) To get some solid advice on how to make live testimonial reads more successful, I spoke with Peter Connolly. Peter owns LIVE, The Personality Advertising Specialists in Detroit. He creates and manages live local radio endorsement campaigns all over the U.S.

Get ahead of the next jump in technology at Forecast 2019 as Beasley's EVP/Strategy and Innovation Buzz Knight sits with Ben Arnold, Senior Director/Innovation & Trends at Consumer Technology Association, for an interview on the trends and gadgets that will affect your budgets and bottom line.

FEMA and the FCC are conducting a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Wednesday. The EAS portion of the test, which will be sent to radio and television, will be at 2:20 p.m. EDT. This is the fourth nationwide EAS test. Here are more details...

The two companies are teaming up to draw juniors and seniors from universities nationwide into broadcast sales through the P1 Futures Program. vCreative’s underwriting allows P1 Learning to continue its two-week pop-up curriculum at colleges which is designed to educate college students on a career in broadcast sales.

Skyview Networks has signed a multi-year partnership with the NFL’s Washington Redskins for AdView Inventory Management software and Live Read Capture system.