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Georgia State University has forged an agreement with 92.9 THE GAME (WZGC-FM) and News & Talk 1380 (WAOK-AM) in Atlanta for the broadcast of all Georgia State University Athletics football, and men’s and women’s basketball games. The partnership is effective at the start of the 2018-19 season.

That's something we may never know, unless we can get someone to leak that figure to us. We reached out to Bubba for a comment but he did not respond. Whatever that figure was, it was big enough to make Nielsen happy and avoid a full blown public trial, which would have put many of the details about its methodology on trial as well. And that's something the ratings firm has always tried to avoid.

(By Deborah Parenti) The list of roadblocks to achieving better retention rates includes everything from millennial mindset to “sexier” new media opportunities. Both are frequently cited as reasons for the dismal track record of keeping young potential super-sellers from bolting out the door. So, with a shrug, we move on to the next candidate, in a never-ending cycle.

(By Bob McCurdy) I recently read a podcasting article that quoted someone as saying, “Good storytelling will always be heard.” It got me thinking about our role as storytellers in promoting our medium and positioning our media assets. We often talk to clients about what a great medium radio is for telling their “stories,” but is our storytelling up to snuff?

The 6th annual Confer Radio Talent Institute begins today in Pennsylvania on the campus of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Sessions over the 10-day Institute cover sales, on-air, production, promotions, digital, social media, and engineering. The Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters and Confer underwrite the Institute. Twenty-two students have been accepted.

The folks at Entercom Philadelphia know how to have a good time! On Saturday, July 14, they’ll be hosting the city’s first city-wide pizza festival, “Pizzadelphia.” The family-friendly event will showcase over 25 of Philadelphia’s best pizza restaurants and food trucks.

The New York Post is reporting that private equity firm Silver Lake Partners may be interested in buying iHeartMedia. According to the paper, Silver Lake is in talks with iHeart creditors, which are gearing up to take control of the company once it emerges from Chapter 11.

Thanks to Phillip Sprayberry, Media Relations Coordinator at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ for sharing this story with us. Eight students from the University's communication/broadcast department returned to Vieques, Puerto Rico, to follow up on the work they started in January to restore the small island’s radio station, WVQR 90.1 FM Radio Vieques, that was unusable after Hurricane Maria.

David Field is very consistent in his message and he'll tell anybody and everybody who will listen. He's one of radio's best storytellers and he wants everyone to know radio deserves more than it's getting from advertisers and that radio remains as strong as ever with listeners.

(By Paul Weyland) I hate surprises, even the good ones, but especially the bad ones. For AE's, nothing is worse than suddenly discovering that a client you thought you knew well is suddenly cancelling and going with an agency, or to another medium or station. Here's how you minimize your exposure to those bad surprises...