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Radio Ink is pleased to announce the finalists for the prestigious 2018 Medallas de Cortez, the only awards dedicated to recognizing the very best in Hispanic radio. The Medallas de Cortez awards are named in honor of Raoul Cortez, founder of the first Spanish-language radio station in the United States, KCOR/San Antonio, in 1946.

James Kauffman, recently arrested for plotting the death of his wife April (pictured), was found dead in his cell Friday. Hudson County authorities say he died of an apparent suicide. Police arrested Kauffman on murder and racketeering. They say he arranged for his wife to be murdered in 2012 so she wouldn't expose a drug ring he was involved in with a motorcycle gang.

(By Bob McCurdy) A good friend, Don Jacobs, who oversees Townsquare’s Sioux Falls cluster, recommended a book titled Obvious Adams, written about an ad man who continually gets promoted by acting on “the obvious.” Everything about it made me skeptical. Then I read it.

(By Andrew Curran) Have you seen the Post from Mark Zuckerberg? In recent years, stations have finally begun to establish their social media strategy and along comes this torpedo. 

(By Ronald Robinson) As the virtual meeting of “the twelve” continued and the participants got on a roll, more pronouncements and/or recommendations were provided. Among these were the following...

Alternative Music can now be heard on 97.5 in Austin thanks to a flip made Friday by iHeart. Replacing Pride Radio will be artists like The Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons, Weezer and 5,000 songs in a row. Pride Radio can now be heard on 102.3 HD2. ALT 97.5 will also carry The Woody Show in morning drive.

Beasley Media Group has announced the launch of The New MIX 99.5 WJBR-FM in Wilmington, Delaware. Playing “one great song after another,” the station’s new line-up will include the launch of Michael and Jessie In The Morning.

It's the largest of the seven markets in the Scripps radio portfolio (#38) up for sale, and it could lure David Field back to the buying table. The Entercom CEO has said he plans to continue to grow the company wherever it makes sense, Entercom has the capability to buy more, and Milwaukee is already in that market and not maxed out.

Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker believes the 34 Scripps radio stations could bring the company between $46 and $61 million. She also says it's a tough call because the stations, inherited from Journal Communications back in 2015, have been underperforming "for quite some time." Here's what else Ryvicker says about the stations...

The E.W. Scripps Company announced on Thursday is has retained Kalil & Company to find buyers for its 34 radio stations in a company restructuring. Back in 2014, Scripps merged with Journal Communications, picking up Journal's 35 radio stations and spinning off its newspaper business.