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Over the holiday weekend, Samsung sent a maintenance release to the New Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge devices which now makes those models compatible with NextRadio on all carriers.

Michael Mayer is considered one of the best National Sales Managers in the history of Greater Media. He's also a 2016 Radio Ink Radio Wayne finalist. Mayer started his radio career as the PD at WRIF in Detroit. Here's his very motivational story...

The next few months are the months radio is expected to see its biggest surge in political ad spending. Media Monitors is reporting that, in the 85 major markets it surveys, Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson is running more spots on radio than Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton or Republican candidate Donald Trump. And MediaPost is reporting political revenue for TV will finish weaker than expected.

The Home Depot held on to the top spot with 59,558 commercials aired on radio stations all over the country last week, according to Media Monitors. The US Department of Transportation was second with 34,235, followed by AutoZone with 32,517.

Sun Broadcast Group is partnering with Max Media to bring Shazamable content to Max Media's two Virginia stations, WVHT-FM and WGH-FM.

Jim Hampton, from KKIQ and KKDV (East Bay) helped fundraising efforts for the Taylor Family Foundation at the Day in the Park auction fundraiser in Livermore, CA. All proceeds go directly to funding the Foundation’s mission of providing wellness programs for Northern California kids with life-threatening chronic illnesses and developmental disabilities.

The 2016 Radio Ink Radio Wayne Awards will be handed out Thursday, September 22nd at the Advertiser Breakfast at The Radio Show in Nashville. The Radio Wayne awards identify radio's best salespeople and managers and are named after Wayne Cornils, who worked for the RAB for many years and was one of radio’s greatest ambassadors. Here are all the finalists for the 2016 awards...

The FCC is proposing a penalty of $15,000 for Wilner Lundi for repeatedly operating pirate radio stations at 91.5 and 104.7 MHz in Lake Worth, Florida. In this NAL, The Commission wrote, "Mr. Lundi’s deliberate disregard of the Commission’s warning warrants a significant penalty." Lundi was cited in 2013 for a station in Delray Beach and last year for a station in Lake Worth.

Keeping an eye on radio's largest advertising category, sales figures are in for the month of August, which show the pace of auto sales decelerated sharply. Retail sales have fallen in four of the past six months, after rising for 66 straight months.

Trey Radel is returning to the radio station (92.5 Fox News Radio) in Fort Myers where he hosted a show before winning a seat in Congress in 2012. Radel resigned in disgrace after trying to purchase cocaine from an undercover agent in Washington, DC.