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The Washington Nationals have signed a five-year extension with Entercom’s Washington DC’s 106.7 The Fan (WJFK-FM) beginning with the 2018 MLB season. The partnership began seven years ago. Play-by-play announcers Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler return for their 13th consecutive season.

The University of Alabama, and its rights holder, Learfield, have announced a five-year agreement with SummitMedia to become the official radio home of Crimson Tide Sports Network in Birmingham.

Veritone has signed new multi-market license agreements with Beasley, Reach Media and the Tom Joyner Network, Townsquare, and Results Radio. Veritone has also renewed its existing license agreement with Hubbard. The agreements give the broadcasters a license to the Veritone aiWARE platform.

KAT 103.7, “Omaha's New Country Station,” has announced that the 16th annual Canfest, an acoustic concert, raised over $10,000 from ticket proceeds and four 50-gallon barrels of non-perishable food to benefit the Food Bank for the Heartland.

Local Radio Networks and SMARTS Broadcast Systems have entered into an arrangement that makes delivery of LRN’s highly localized 24/7 music formats compatible with the SMARTS Skylla System and easily available to all SMARTS Skylla affiliates.

Following Monday’s break-up episode of ABC TV’s The Bachelor, myTalk107.1 (Twin Cities) showed support for one of its own. After Arie Luyendyk, Jr. dumped his Prior Lake, MN-resident fiancée Becca Kufrin, the station quickly posted 26 digital billboards across the Minneapolis/St. Paul market in her support.

On Tuesday's earnings call, Radio One CEO Alfred Liggins was asked a question about radio's pricing pressure. His answer was that radio has been living with pricing pressure for quite some time and that's due to radio's two largest companies having balance sheet issues. So why is David Field's name in the headline?

WLUP was one of the two stations, along with WKQX, that Cumulus was going to purchase from Merlin Media. It had been a Rock station for over 40 years, but as of today it is no more.

For one of the most iconic radio brands a major market has ever seen, there was no week-long walk down memory lane. There was no reminiscing about how the jocks of old broke barriers and broke rules to produce great content. There were no rock star interviews about how much the station meant to them back in the day. There was just a memo and a flick of the off switch. Poof. Gone.

And CEO Alfred Liggins made a point to call out the burger chain, which has been one of Radio One's biggest advertisers for years. In the first quarter of 2017, McDonald's spent $1 million across all Radio One stations. Liggins says McDonald's changed agencies, changed strategy to reach the urban audience using radio, and spent a fraction of that $1 million in Q1 2018.