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iHeartMedia makes the flip to ALT 96.1 in Spokane moving Kix Country up the dial to 99.3, which is a translator, and was UP99.3 airing a Christian format. The station will feature The Woody Show weekday mornings and broadcast commercial-free music from 10 a.m.–noon.

The insurance provider aired 44,125 commercials on radio stations across the country last week according to Media Monitors, making it radio's number one advertiser for yet another week. Check out the top five for the week...

To help AMs and FMs on their path to success, Radio Ink presents the latest in a series of short podcasts focused on Hispanic radio in advance of the 2018 Hispanic Radio Conference, March 13-14 in Miami. In our second installment, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam Jacobson chats with Francisco Montero, co-Managing Partner of Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, on the importance of AM and FM radio during an emergency.

Thanks to Joanna Martens from The Kim Komando Show for sharing this advertiser success story with us from Austin, Texas, where the syndicated tech guru helped Gregg Burger and his business Precision Camera bring many new customers through the door and ring the cash register. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

iHeartCommunications and its lenders have agreed to a 72-hour extension as they continue talks to restructure the company's $20 Billion in debt. Lenders and iHeart have signed a Forbearance Agreement, which means lenders will not exercise their right to pursue a default, at least through Wednesday, on iHeart's missed $106 million interest payment.

The prediction by multiple print publications that iHeart would file for bankruptcy this past weekend turned out to be wrong. As of this morning, there has been no such filing and late on Friday, iHeart had filed a document that 'reflects the Company’s attempt to harmonize the views that it has received directly from the various groups of noteholders, lenders and the company’s equity holders."

A book author says he paid Sid Rosenberg $5,000 cash to get him an interview with Geraldo Rivera on WABC in New York. Joseph DeBlasi says he gave Rosenberg the money back in 2014. Rosenberg now co-hosts the 9A-Noon slot on WABC in New York. He also makes appearances on Imus in The Morning. Back in 2014 he worked for WFAN.

(By Bob McCurdy) One of the best investments I made in my career, long ago, was hiring a college professor to tutor me regarding the “ins” and “outs” of statistics. Early on I learned that in those days, Arbitron, and now Nielsen, audience “estimates” are just that, “estimates."

One of the worst kept secrets in radio was the fact that Entercom was gearing up to flip a station in San Diego that would focus on sports and carry the San Diego Padres. That flip took place on Friday as the company dumped The "Energy" format for "97.3 The Machine, Talk that Rocks, in San Diego."

(By Randy Lane) How do you determine if you are a host or co-host? It comes down to whether your personality comes out best setting up content as a generator or your personality comes alive reacting to others.