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Cumulus/Westwood One Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard is out with a new blog highlighting the disconnect media buyers and planners have about the media habits of the American public. His conclusion: they are way off.

iHeartMedia announced Monday the return of the annual iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 21 and 22 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and its Daytime Stage, which will take place at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Our thanks to Gene Kuntz, the General Manager of WITZ AM & FM and WQKZ FM in Jasper, IN for this weeks advertiser success story. Kuntz tells us about the great relationship he's built up with Bob Disinger who owns Disinger Jewelers. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

(By Randy Lane) Last week, renowned producer Little Tommy Sablan stressed the importance of callers and call screeners to successful radio shows. This week we’ll take a deep dive into the specific guidelines of effective phone screening.

(by Bob McCurdy) The spoken word. The most intimate of ways to communicate. Few things can generate more emotion or immediate action. It’s said that King Solomon remarked, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” In 2018, we’d modify this a bit and apply it to advertising, saying, “Revenue and success often lie in the power of the tongue.”

Mike Francesa will be returning to WFAN on Tuesday, May 1. His shift will be 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. And a new Francesa app is part of this new deal. Here's what Francesa said from the Entercom corporate press release and what he told Radio Ink...

Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti was in Washington, DC over the weekend, attending the White House Correspondents dinner. Despite the bad comedy routine making the news headlines, the boss says the event was a lot of fun. Here, Parenti is pictured with Rita Cosby and Craig Swagler and Amy Bolton from CBS News Radio.

(By John Garziglia) A St. Louis radio personality, who calls himself the “Grim Reaper of Radio,” holds himself out on the KQQZ website as “The Kraziest Son of a Bitch you’ll ever hear on the radio….” Can the Grim Reaper’s Hot Talk radio content get the radio station’s license yanked?

It’s day three of our special feature with the best program directors in the country. We've been asking these great PDs about Spotify and Pandora and why some of radio's listeners are turning away from their stations and tuning into these pure play streamers. Here are a few more expert opinions....

Media ecologist Jack Myers is out with his new digital projections and he expects annual audio advertising spending to show steady gains over the next three years. Myers is forecasting digital ad-spend growth averaging 18% per year with the total surpassing $20 billion by 2020.