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It was the first World Series win for the Chicago Cubs since 1908, and that resulted in huge listening numbers for WSCR in its first year carrying the games.

The Country Radio Broadcasters have named Alexandria Hardy (GM, Tomlinson-Leis Communications/Palestine, TX), Joseph Pitt (Cumulus - Appleton/Oshkosh/Green Bay), and Matt Ramone (PM Drive DJ, KUBL/Salt Lake City) as recipients of the 2017 Rusty Walker Scholarship. Each will receive an all-expenses paid trip and attendance to CRS February 22-24.

ASCAP has released a list of the 30 most-played holiday songs of the last 50 years. Data accumulated since 1966 shows that “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” written by ASCAP songwriters Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie, and copyrighted in 1934, is the most-played holiday song of the last five decades.

The Vacaville, CA, station raised $34,000 with their 13th Annual “Hope Begins with a Meal” radiothon on November 17. That translates to over 19,000 meals for the needy.

That's according to the detail in the S-1 the company filed on Friday. CBS Radio's 117 radio stations are located in mostly large markets across the country, including all of the top ten markets and 19 of the top 25 markets.

The company tells prospective investors that it has a strong sales-oriented culture with extensive local relationships. As of last month, CBS Radio had 900 salespeople it says were generating revenue share in excess of audience share in every one of its 26 markets.

On Friday, CBS Radio filed an updated S-1 with the SEC as it continues along the path to take the radio division public. The radio stock will trade as CBSR. Here are some other details from the prospectus we thought you'd find interesting.

The Radio Music License Committee has announced the filing of an antitrust complaint against Global Music Rights concerning what the RMLC calls anticompetitive behavior. Global Music Rights was founded in 2013 by Irving Azoff and represents music rights holders for the licensing of their public performances.

According to Nielsen, seven out of ten adults were aware of the Chicago Town Hall meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The meeting was organized by radio stations in the city of Chicago and all of them broke format to broadcast the 30 minute interview conducted by Bill Kurtis.

(By Bob McCurty) We were visiting an agency earlier this week and the subject of big data and its role in the election came up. We mentioned we’d heard a TV pundit state that, based on the results and how wrong big data got it, that it was “dead.” The agency suggested that it surely wasn’t but that it might be somewhat “wounded.”