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In March, the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters launched a “Use Your Power” campaign directed at listeners of African-American-targeted radio stations. Phase One of the campaign was designed to educate audiences about the $1.2 trillion dollar consumer buying power of African Americans and to encourage them to use that power wisely. NABOB announced Thursday it is ready to launch Phase Two.

106.5 The Arch’s morning show Spencer’s Neighborhood hosted a successful “Digital Diaper Drive” with a goal of raising 1,000 diapers for the St. Louis Area Diaper Bank. Nearly 2,000 diapers were collected. This week, Spencer, Cassiday and Brando delivered the donated diapers to the St. Louis Area Diaper Bank's Kathy Meyer.

Radio Ink has announced that Forecast 2019 will be co-chaired by Marci Ryvicker, Managing Director and Senior Equity analyst of Wells Fargo Securities. She joins Caroline Beasley, CEO of Beasley Media Group, in co-chairing the annual industry summit.

Linda Byrd is the President, North Florida Region, for iHeartMedia. She manages the Orlando cluster of nine radio stations and a state network for iHeartMedia. She also oversees the Central/North Florida region which includes Sarasota, Tampa, Melbourne, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Panama City, and Brunswick, Georgia. And she's on Radio Ink's 2018 Most Influential Women in Radio list.

The Sports Broadcast Journal interviewed former CBS Radio CEO Dan Mason this week and asked him about Mike Francesa unretiring at WFAN in New York. WFAN was a CBS Radio station before the company merged with Entercom. We learned several things from the Mason interview.

On Wednesday, Nielsen announced it had been granted accreditation by the Media Rating Council for five additional PPM markets: Columbus, Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, and Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo. Nielsen now has 30 of its 48 PPM markets accredited by the MRC. Nielsen also lost a market.

June 4 through June 18, radio listeners nationwide will be able to vote for their favorite personalities in two categories to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame on Nov. 15.  

La Copa Mundial is much bigger than the Olympics for Latinos across the U.S. and around the world. But, oftentimes, we think of the World cup as a television property. This isn't necessarily true, as Entravision Communications Chief Revenue Officer Mario Carrera notes in this Hispanic Radio Podcast.

One of the issues that has always hampered negotiations with PRO's is knowing exactly how many artists and songwriters are part of which PRO. The issue of transparency. When Irving Azoff joined the PRO club, and began demanding money from radio stations, it made the issue more complicated.

For now the court has set Monday June 18 as opening day for the trial between Todd Clem (Bubba The Love Sponge) and Nielsen.  The trial was originally scheduled to begin April 2 but was postponed