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In this Hispanic Radio Podcast, SBS EVP/Programming Jesus Salas shares why the launch of a brand-new station and adjustments at two other FMs in Puerto Rico couldn't come at a better time.

Ready for a major Country radio event? Registration for the 50th Anniversary year of Country Radio Seminar begins August 15, with an early bird rate of $499 that will only be available on the opening day. The price will increase to $549 the very next day.

Produced for the last 23 years by Steve Reynolds, Today’s Rock Facts provides comprehensive music news to Active Rock and Mainstream Rock stations, as well as Classic Rock stations. Originally delivered to stations via fax, the service is now offered on a new Web platform.

In November of last year, Dave Beasing launched his new company called Sound That Brands which focuses on creating great content. Today you are more likely to see Beasing at a podcasting conference than you are at a radio conference. That appears to be where a lot of the new and compelling content is coming from.

On Tuesday the company filed its financials with the SEC for the second quarter of 2018. The company reported revenue of $853.3 million for iHeartMedia, down 3.5% from 2017 ($884.4 million) and total revenue of $1.6 billion, down less than 1% from a year ago ($1.59 billion).

Pandora reported 71.4 million active users for the second quarter of 2018. That's down from 72.3 million in the first quarter of 2018 and down significantly from a year ago when active users were 76 million. Listener hours in Q2 of 2018 were 5 billion, flat when compared to Q1 of this year, and down from one year ago when listener hours were 5.22 billion.

And that's good news for the streaming pure-play. The company now has about six million paid subscribers after 351,000 were added over the past three months. And, more paid subscribers equals more subscription revenue.

It was a $7 million decline in ad revenue for Pandora in Q2. Advertising revenue in April, May, and June was $271 million compared to $278 million a year earlier. For the first six months of the year, advertising revenue is down $15 million, from $501.5 million in 2017 to $485.6 million this year.

(By Laurie Kahn) Ghosting is a term describing those job seekers who don’t show for appointments or for those who have accepted your position and then don’t show up the first day. Or, they resign via text or just quit showing up for work. 

If you like to plan ahead, here are the details for the 2019 and 2020 RAB/NAB Radio Shows to be held in Dallas and Nashville respectively.