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The NRHOF Nominating Committee is accepting suggestions for 2018 nominees from Wednesday, February 7 through Friday, March 30. Visit www.radiohof.org and click on the NOMINATE tab to submit picks for consideration.

Westwood One has picked the winners of the fifth annual Westwood One Sports Sound Awards, designed to "celebrate creative excellence and highlight the power of sonic branding." Here are the winners.

Monday night in Nashville, Radio Ink Magazine honored the 2018 Best Country Program Directors in America at an Amazon.com-sponsored event at the Country Radio Seminar. Cox Media Group PD Johnny Chiang was named the Best PD in America. Radio Ink has been honoring the Best Country Program Directors in America. Check out the entire 2018 list HERE.

Our thanks to Lotus Broadcasting Las Vegas Account Executive Mary McDonald for bringing us this Advertiser Success Story. Paul McGuire is the Chief Marketing Office for The Freemont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas. Downtown Las Vegas is in a big battle to provide exciting entertainment with all that's available to vacationers and the locals on The Las Vegas Strip. And to get his job done successfully McGuire uses the Power of Radio. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media).

The insurance giant stayed atop the pile of radio’s leading advertisers again last week with 41,831 spots played across the country, according to Media Monitors. Indeed Inc. jumped one place to second, with 34,667 commercials played.

GMPT Media, the joint venture between Gen Media Partners and The Tacher Company, has signed Magnum.Media’s 16 Wisconsin radio stations to exclusive national ad sales representation.

94.5 The Moose (WCEN/Saginaw/MI) raised $75,303 with the 15th Annual Moose Country Cares for St. Jude Kids Radiothon, January 25-26. In 15 years, over one-million dollars has been raised for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

And it didn’t take long! The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation has announced that the recent call for entries for the annual Gracie Awards was the most successful in the program’s history. 

Hispanic consumers: How much do you really know about this fast-growing demographic and where to find them? Has the political climate altered their shopping habits? Are Hispanics cocooning more and avoiding brick and mortar, especially in border towns, due to uneasiness in what are for some uncertain times?

(By Jeff McHugh) Busy media talent are dividing their time between on-air, social media, blog pages, website content, events, station concerts, and podcasts. Is it all worth it? Consider which of those tasks are winners and which are losers by figuring out your return on investment.