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Whoever walked into public radio station WORT-FM in Madison, WI is still on the loose and police say the shooting doesn't appear to be random. Station personnel say a man wearing a mask and hood entered the station and opened fire on three workers this past Sunday.

The Radio Ink Radio Wayne Awards will be handed out on September 27 at the Radio Show in Orlando. And in a new series of podcasts, we pick their brains about how they've made it to the top. Today our podcast features Katie Phillippi, Sales Manager for Alpha Media in Lincoln, NE.

Entercom CEO David Field expanded on the company's recently ended relationship with United States Traffic Network in an internal memo sent out on Monday. USTN has filed a lawsuit against Entercom, calling the company a corporate bully. USTN wants $5 million from Entercom for backing out of a deal to take over the company. The memo details Entercom's side of the story over the past 8 1/2 months.

GEICO has upended The Home Depot after the big-box chain was radio's number one advertiser for 18 weeks in a row. According to Media Monitors, GEICO aired 43,287 commercials last week as The Home Depot aired only 35,468, way down from the 72,599 spots it ran a week earlier.

(By Randy Lane) The one-two punch that propels female-targeted shows to big ratings is the combination of a sticky relationship benchmark and relevant personal stories from the cast. Those stories connect best with the female audience (and the male audience) when they are vulnerable, self-deprecating, and humorous.

Providence College Athletics has announced a five-year agreement with Cumulus Media to become the official radio home of the school's men’s basketball on NewsTalk 99.7FM & AM 630 WPRO. John Rooke and Joe Hassett, who have been the voices of Friar Basketball for more than 30 years, will call all Friar games this season.

Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan was a guest on The New Media Show with Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee. They discussed the relationship between the radio industry and the podcasting industry. Is there a great divide? Find out by watching the show HERE.

The CEO's and President's of ten radio companies have joined forces to pen a long letter to the radio industry in full support of more deregulation. The group want to keep the pressure on the FCC as it considers lifting ownership caps during its upcoming quadrennial ownership review. They also want to rally the industry to their side.

Bonneville announced on Friday it has entered into an agreement with Entercom to purchase four stations in San Francisco and four in Sacramento for $141 million. Bonneville has been programming the stations, which have been held in an FCC disposition Trust, under “LMAs” since November 17, 2017. The stations are:

(By Bob McCurdy) In today’s listening landscape, many stations are separated by only a tenth or two of a rating point, which greatly impacts rank and, in reality, statistically speaking, there’s little if any actual audience difference between these stations. The reason for this...