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WBWN-FM, WBNQ-FM and WJBC-AM in Bloomington, IL for raising $96,347 during its 10th Annual Country Cares for St. Jude Radiothon. In those 10 years, over $761,600 has been raised for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

The 17th Annual KALC-FM Alice 105.9 Cares for Kids Radiothon raised an astounding $1.3 million in 24 hours for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals benefiting Children’s Hospital Colorado. Over the years, the Denver station has helped raise more than $23.25 million for the cause.

While some companies are just now adding their stations to Home Speaker platforms like Amazon's Alexa, Federated Media was an early adopter. In fact Federated Media was the first company to build an Alexa skill, and put its radio stations on the platform, about a year ago. Now they are taking the building of Alexa Skills to the next level.

Five Cumulus stations, all in South Carolina, are fined for similar reasons. They failed to keep their public files up to date, and got caught when applying for a license renewal. Stations must certify that all of the required information is in the Public File when filing for a license renewal. Here are the five stations...

(By Lisa Thal) Most people buy on emotion and back it up with logic, and our clients are no different. The most successful team members are those who give their clients the emotional benefits of doing business with them and their company.

(By Gary Krantz) Tom Elliott is the founder of Grabien, a service that’s streamlining news production. He has a journalism background, but moved into radio as an executive producer for its bigger platform. We had a conversation about the inspiration behind the service, and staying on top of fast-evolving media platforms. 

March 19 is the new deadline, and it will be the final deadline for entries. Eligibility is also extended, to work that ran between January 1, 2017 and March 19, 2018.

Earlier this week, the 4A’s today issued a Fair Play Charter to its members, asking media agencies, and media departments within agencies, to recommit to fair and equitable treatment of minority media owners.

(By Ronald Robinson) My last two articles dealt with the sub-par and benign admonitions from a dozen otherwise experienced and well-intentioned radio professionals. To their credit, however, they agreed on the need for more – lots more – skilled talent to be brought back to the airwaves, or generated from scratch.

The New 104.9 The Wolf (WXCL/Peoria) raised $70,124 with John & Jaymie’s Radiothon for St. Jude Kids. The Wolf staff broadcasted from the Alpha Media building February 1-2 for 12 hours each day.