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This year the 2018 NAB Marconi Radio Awards, handed out at the Radio Show in Orlando, included new audio and video production elements provided by The Mix Group.

At its regular monthly meeting, Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission eliminated the nearly 80-year-old requirement that broadcasters routinely file paper copies of station contracts and other documents with the Commission. Broadcasters have been required to submit these paper filings since the 1930s.

Hollywood star Harrison Ford is making a rare public appearance on October 28 at Elvis Duran’s 4th Annual Carney Awards. The star of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films will present the Chairman’s Lifetime Achievement award to the legendary character actor M. Emmet Walsh.

Managers...how do you know when one of your hosts has gone too far? Back in August, WFAN host Maggie Gray went on a rant calling Madison Square Garden Executive Chairman James Dolan a "vile piece of trash," among other things. Gray attacked Dolan because of a song he released with his band called “I Should’ve Known.”

On December 17, Radio Ink will release its seventh annual Top Local Sports Talkers in America list. Every year, our editorial board ranks the best of the best in local Sports Talk. Your deadline to nominate is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Make your nomination HERE.

It's election time and that means Bobby Baker's phone is probably ringing off the hook. Baker is the Assistant Division Chief of the Policy Division in the FCC's Media Bureau. Equal time, lowest unit rates, paperwork requirements, and election law are all discussed in the latest FCC podcast HERE.

The first iHeartRadio Podcast Awards will be held at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles Friday, January 18, 2019 at 8 p.m. Listeners will vote for their favorite podcasts online in 22 categories.

Growing your audio audience and revenue are not a given. You have to know what you’re doing, what you’re up against, and how to make the most of the expanding options. At Forecast 2019 next month, if you attend, you WILL find out how to grow your audience and revenue.

Media Monitors says GEICO ran 50,278 commercials on radio stations across the country last week and that was good enough for the top spot on their list.

On Monday morning, the National Association of Broadcasters and the NAB Education Foundation unveiled an online toolkit to help journalists cover sensitive stories involving religion as part of the “Awareness in Reporting” initiative.