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The Home Depot remains the king of radio advertising with another big week, airing 79,203 commercials on radio stations all over the country, according to Media Monitors. Lowe's moved up to number two by airing 38,659 spots. Rounding out the top five were...

This past weekend, WTOP was honored with 12 Chesapeake AP Awards, including the Outstanding News Operation award and the award for Best Website for WTOP.com. The awards were presented to WTOP employees on Saturday at the annual Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards Banquet in Ocean City, Maryland.

Jeffrey Zander is the owner of the Zander Insurance Group. His company is physically located in Nashville, however, thanks to his advertising partnership with syndicated talker Dave Ramsey his business has gone national. We interviewed Zander about that relationship with Ramsey, and how his business has grown thanks to the Ramsey partnership. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media).

On November 29, 2017 Cumulus CEO Mary Berner announced radio's second biggest company at the time would be filing for bankruptcy. She said, "The debt overhang left by previous years of underperformance remains a significant financial challenge that we must overcome for our operational turnaround to proceed.” Here's what she said yesterday when the company officially emerged from a six-month financial restructuring which will reduce debt by over $1 Billion.

Starks, who currently serves as assistant bureau chief of the FCC’s enforcement bureau, also served as senior counsel at the U.S. Justice Department. Starks, if confirmed, would fill the seat now occupied by Democrat Mignon Clyburn, whose term ended on June 30, 2017, but who can remain on the commission until her successor is confirmed.

(By Bob McCurdy) There was an interesting article last week titled "P&G's Pritchard: Seize Back Control of Data, Reinvent Marketing and Stop 'Annoying the Hell Out of People,'" that touched on a subject we’ve previously addressed: the impact of heavy and light users of any medium or station and the number of times each are exposed to a message.

Women are the equal of men as broadcasters and they are gradually making up the gender gap in radio hosts. But some myths persist. So let's explode them right here and now.

And it all takes place at Emerson College in Boston. The Beasley Radio Talent Institute of the National Radio Talent System is designed as a talent incubator for aspiring broadcasters. It’s ten days long and includes everything about radio from on-air in music radio, sports, news, production, promotions, engineering, digital and social media and sales.

Bilotta died this past Friday with his family at his side, peacefully and finally without pain after over a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. Bilotta was loved by so many in the broadcasting industry. We went back a few years and pulled up our last interview with Joe. Here it is...

Mike Novak, CEO of Educational Media Foundation, announced Friday he will retire as CEO of the ministry that operates the K-LOVE and Air1 radio networks in the coming months. Novak and EMF’s Board of Directors say they have been working closely the past couple of years on the timing of his retirement.