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Once upon a time there was a music metadata company known for providing song names and album titles to a wide variety of streaming audio and on-demand listening platforms, including iTunes. The keeper of this giant database is Gracenote, a company recently acquired by Nielsen.

“Disruption” is a topic that dominated a second NAB Show session in Las Vegas featuring radio sales leaders, and depending on who you talk to, the changes being seen on the street may differ from battles being waged in the C-Suite.

There was one big surprise reveal at Monday night’s debut NAB Achievement in Broadcasting awards dinner at the Encore, Las Vegas. NAB President/CEO and former Oregon Senator Gordon Smith announced that this year's award for distinguished service to the radio industry will go to John David.

Las Vegas may have its King of Rock and Roll, but radio now has its own Hall of Fame Elvis to brag about. At Monday night’s Achievement in Broadcasting Dinner, iHeartMedia syndicated morning personality Elvis Duran became the latest inductee into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame.

It appears Entercom may be close to making some sort of change at 97.3 The Machine in San Diego. Not only was Dan Sileo not on the air Monday, which may indicate a time slot change for him -- to mornings perhaps -- but Kevin Klein has been wiped from the station's website and is no longer listed in the station's on-air schedule. Could it be that one bad tweet cost Kevin Klein his job?

Digital audio and video distributors have created new competitors — and disruption. All want to be media companies … but some are not. What does this mean for media companies? That was the question posed to “four very smart women” in a 2018 NAB Show Main Stage Program.

Speaking at the 2017 Hispanic Radio Conference in Fort Lauderdale, FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly advocated for a rule modernization that is sure to get broadcast media companies talking. He wants to get rid of the FCC’s current subcap rules for AM/FM ownership and he brought that topic up again this week in Las Vegas.

Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti announced our cover subject for the upcoming Most Influential Women in Radio issue on June 18. In fact, it was a surprise announcement made in Las Vegas at the NAB show and here's a video of exactly how it went down...

Entercom is launching Spanish-language sports station El Zol Deportes on 1580 AM (WJFK-AM) and 107.9 HD-2 (WLZL-FM) in Washington DC. The station will be a mix of locally produced and nationally syndicated sports-talk programming from ESPN Deportes, as well as a full slate of live Spanish-language play-by-play.

Alpha Media, Cameron-Bethany, MO, raised over $15,000 for Camp Quality, a camp for kids battling cancer, during the 33rd Annual Roy Eagan, Sr., Camp Quality Radiothon. The radiothon was held on Wednesday, March 28, with accompanying activities held throughout the week.