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Scripps uses both Midroll and Stitcher to push out podcasting programming and the company says revenue is up 50% over last year in that division, including money from Proctor & Gamble in Q2. Podcast subscription revenue is also growing with dozens of original shows driving the growth.

Our thanks to JazzRadio CEO Julian Allitt in Germany for sending in this international advertiser success story. JazzRadio Berlin has a bi-weekly cume of 528,000 listeners and, because the station is blockaded by bigger radio groups to stop them from getting national advertising, local and regional advertising clients are very important. Check out what they've done with The Ellington Hotel. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media).

(By John Garziglia) The FCC on August 2, 2018, adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NRPM) under which FM stations and FM translators (along with LPTV and TV translators) will be reimbursed from a $50M Congressional-authorized fund, for costs incurred in being collocated with, adjacent to, or in close proximity to a repacked TV station’s facility changes.

SESAC, The National Music Publishers’ Association, the Nashville Songwriters Association International, and the Songwriters of North America released a joint statement Thursday in support of the Music Modernization Act. The groups stated that the MMA improves how songwriters are paid by digital streaming services.

SAG-AFTRA and New York Public Radio have reached a Voluntary Recognition Agreement that will add per diem and temporary employees working in SAG-AFTRA covered titles to the union’s longstanding contract that currently covers over 100 full-time workers at NYPR.

The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group will present “C-Suite Insights into Processes, People and Platforms to Grow Your Revenue” on Thursday, September 27 from 10:30 a.m.–11:15 a.m. at the 2018 Radio Show, September 25–September 28 in Orlando.

Entercom is relaunching the Philadelphia Eagles radio show and podcast hosted by SportsRadio 94WIP’s John Barchard and James Seltzer, as Go Birds. The show will continue to air on Saturdays from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET on WIP-FM, which is the flagship station of the Philadelphia Eagles.

(By Ronald Robinson) “Be yourself!” say the pundits, programmers, and associates. This has always been fundamental advice, delivered with more than sincerity, but rather the strongest of unquestionable certainty. That this is a strategy that confuses the newer on-air personalities is never discussed.

(By Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads) I’m afraid I have to be critical of the NAB. Facebook and Google are the competition to radio, according to the National Association of Broadcasters, and that is why the NAB is pushing for further deregulation at the FCC. Sorry, I just don't see it that way.

There are some mean-spirited people in this world. Thankfully, the good folks way outnumber them. Like the people from The Arch in St. Louis who turned a terrible negative into a wonderful positive. Read on for a truly feel-good radio story.