Headlines

According to Media Monitors, the rental services chain Aaron's aired 24,402 commercials on radio stations across the country last week. That was good enough for a fifth-place showing on the chart. Here were your top five advertisers for the week...

Sellers...We want to put YOU in Radio Ink magazine. And the best pictures to publish are of you and happy clients. Send [email protected] a photo while you're out on a sales call. Pictured here are Cindy Lax (l) from WKDZ in Cadiz, KY, and the owner of Hancock's Neighborhood Market, Mallory Lawrence, a very happy radio customer.

Alexander Brittin and Philip Brittin, from Boulder, were caught operating an illegal radio station from their home at 95.5. Both men were sent a notice, told they needed to shut down their operation, and get in touch with the Commission within 10 days.

Seattle public radio station KEXP has received its largest-ever philanthropic gift. It was of a bequest of just under $10 million. It's believed to be one of the largest bequests to a single public radio station in history. The donor requested to remain anonymous and the station has identified her only by her first name, Suzanne.

CBS News Radio was a big winner at the 84th National Headliner Awards presented by the Press Club of Atlantic City. The National Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing outstanding journalism in newspapers, photography, radio, television, and online.

On May 1, APM Reports will release Season Two of In the Dark, the Peabody Award-winning investigative podcast. This season digs into the case of a black man in a small Mississippi town who has been tried for the same crime six times and is currently on death row.

We've been flooded with comments from around the industry since we first announced the death of Art Bell this past weekend. Bell died at his home in Las Vegas on Friday, April 13. Here are the details along with comments from George Noory, Kraig Kitchin and others...

Drew Hayes got his first job in radio as a teenage fill-in traffic reporter on WMCA in New York City back in the ‘70s. He'd listen to the helicopter reporters on WOR and WCBS and scribble down his report. He was filling in for Tommy Traffic and his name.... Peter Parkway, of course.

(By Bob McCurdy) I read an article recently that focused on human decision-making and how many of our decisions are fraught with unrecognized biases which often lead to “suboptimal outcomes.” There are ways to keep your biases in check. Let me explain...

(By Jeff McHugh) Radio hosts often ask if they are ready for syndication, ready for a bigger market, or ready to cut back on music to allow for more content. The answer is in whether or not the show outperforms the station.