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The second annual MIW-Nielsen Music Mentoring Program is now accepting applications. And they want your help finding the 2018 Mentee. If you (or someone you greatly admire) are a female Program Director, Assistant Program Director, and/or Music Director, from any music format, please be sure to apply.

Nielsen has launched a new product that is says allows users to understand cross-media reach, frequency, and duplication on a local scale using advanced audience segments from Scarborough. It's called Local Nielsen Media Impact and it involves both radio and TV.

Christian was talking about how Internet advertising has figured out how to follow users around the Web after that person shows interest in a certain product. From website to website the ads follow you if you showed any interest in purchasing that product. Christian said Brooks Brother is stalking him. And, here's how he brought it all back to radio.

The Saga CEO says this year (though mid-October) will be his final year as Chairman of the Radio Music Licensing Committee. The RMLC represents the interests of radio on music licensing matters and Christian has played an important role on that committee for a very long time.

After Saga CEO Ed Christian reported net revenue in Q2 was down 0.6% to $30.1 million, he said he and CFO Sam Bush were out looking for more radio stations to add to their portfolio. Christian said they had four opportunities on the table, two of them were still possibilities.

Scripps has cut a deal to sell its radio stations in Boise and Tucson to Lotus Communications for $8 million. The eight stations California-based Lotus will pick up are KMXZ (94.9 FM), KFFN (1490 AM and 104.9 FM), KQTH (104.1 FM), and KTGV (106.3 FM) in Tucson, and KJOT (1051. FM), KQXR (100.3 FM), KRVB (94.9 FM), and KTHI (107.1 FM) in Boise.

(By Steven Goldstein) Podcasting’s most important event, Podcast Movement, took place this summer in Philadelphia. Four years ago at this same event, I counted six radio people in attendance. This time, among the 2,000 attendees were hundreds of people from virtually every major commercial radio company.

Seattle NPR station KUOW is relaunching Morning Edition and All Things Considered with new voices and a new structure designed to bring listeners more local coverage, in-depth interviews, and reports based on listener questions.

Radio Ink is proud to announce the finalists for the 26th annual Radio Wayne Awards. The awards will be presented at this year’s Radio Show Advertiser Breakfast in Orlando on September 27. The awards recognize the best in radio sales and management. Here are the 2018 finalists...

Cumulus and Westwood One invested in a new study to determine the role disclaimers played in the tier-two automotive category. It's a category the radio industry would like to see more investment from and Cumulus and Westwood are hopeful the results from the study will lead to exactly that.