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After a barrage of news reports Thursday that a pirate radio station in Austin that was airing Alex Jones content, Jones issued a statement on his Infowars website. He said he does not operate any radio or TV station anywhere in the country and claims that he's running an illegal station in Austin are a complete and total hoax.

We reported yesterday that WOWO morning man Charly Butcher passed away at the age of 61. Federated Media Director of Programming James Darby tells Radio Ink the station fielded many calls Thursday from leaders across the nation.

Those are the words of Spanish Broadcasting System COO Albert Rodriguez who tells Radio Ink the last six months were the best in the company's history. And Rodriguez is very optimistic about the outlook for the remainder of 2018.

From the official SEC filing, SBS reported total net revenue in Q2 of $34.8 million, slightly higher than the $34.2 million from Q2 2017. For the first six months of 2018 SBS's net revenue came in at $68.7 million, an increase of 2% over the first six months of 2017. So what about the radio division?

The Country Radio Seminar launched their one-day, early bird registration this week, which resulted in record-breaking sales; a 30% increase from the previous year’s first-day sale. The registration rate for CRS 2019 is now $549 and tickets for the 2019 New Faces of Country Music® Showcase are sold out.

News-Talk 1480 WHBC-AM and Mix 94.1 (WHBC-FM) in Canton, along with AultCare, raised $213,946 for Wishes Can Happen, Inc. News-Talk 1480 WHBC, and Mix 94.1 broadcast live August 9-10 for 36 hours in the parking lot at Springbrook Plaza.

It was back in 2013 that Carl Parmer started SummitMedia when Cox Media Group sold him 24 stations in Birmingham, Greenville S.C., Hawaii, Louisville, and Richmond. The former Heftel executive added Tuscaloosa along the way and has been biding his time, waiting to grow the company even larger ever since.

With the purchase of 19 Scripps stations, we checked in with BIA's Mark Fratrik who tells us the Scripps stations generated $35,675,000 in over-the-air advertising revenue in 2017. Add that to what BIA reports for SummitMedia ($54 million) and that increases Summit’s total to $89,775,00.

It was back in 2014 that Scripps announced it was merging with Journal Communications, snatching up 34 radio stations, TV stations, and newspapers. In January, Scripps announced it was planning to sell all of its radio stations so the company could focus on television. Mission accomplished.

Four of the five radio stations owned by Results Radio in Redding were affected by the historic Carr Fire in California, which has already consumed over 210,000 acres. Early in the fire, Results lost mountain-top transmitter sites on South Fork Mountain and Shasta Bally Mountain for four of its five stations.