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With the first court date scheduled for Thursday in the Cumulus Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, two objections have been filed. One is from Merlin Media. Merlin states that Cumulus agreed to purchase WLUP-FM and WIQI-FM for $50 million and then, after that agreement was reached, Cumulus sought to negotiate a lower price.

Smart speakers are all the rage these days and there's no doubt Santa will be delivering quite a few around the country in less than one week. Is your radio station prepared for the smart speaker revolution? Veritone is leading the way with state-of-the-art technology and we're going to discuss that technology in a free webinar today at 1 p.m.

Skyview Networks was launched by Ken Thiele and Dave Chamberlain during the 1995-1996 NBA season. The goal was to get the games broadcast to markets outside Phoenix. They've come a long way since that idea was launched over 20 years ago.

There are now three Country stations in the Denver market with the iHeart flip from Active Rock (which was moved to 107.9). The new station is called "106.7 The Bull, Colorado’s New Country station," which will try to compete with Bonneville Country powerhouse KYGO. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment owns 92.5 The Wolf in the Denver market.

Amazon.com ran 38,478 commercials on radio stations across America last week, according to Media Monitors. That was over three thousand more than GEICO, which took the second spot. Macy's jumped from 56th to third with 33,142 commercials. Walgreens was next airing 30,761, followed by JC Penney with 30,227.

New York City Country station NASH FM 94.7 (WNSH-FM) raised $113,638 for Children’s Miracle Network during its Miracle for the Kids live broadcast on Friday, December 15. Market Manager Chad Lopez said, “This year it was critical for everyone at NASH to hit a fundraising milestone and we’ve done it. I couldn’t be more grateful to each and every one of our listeners."

Seattle's 106.1 KISS FM (KBKS) raised $817,711.47 in just 13 hours on Wednesday, December 13, to bring its 15-year radiothon total to over $ 15.7 million dollars. Bender’s One Big KISS for Seattle Children’s Hospital Radiothon brought the stories of Children’s patients, families, staff, and volunteers to their listeners across the region who responded with generous donations.

The answer is Dupree does not know. What the veteran Cox Media Group news reporter does know is that he can no longer speak, and that's tough for someone who's been on the radio for over 30 years with no plans to slow down.

Most talk show hosts would never think of walking away from their dream job if they were number one in the ratings. Mike Francesa did it. Friday was his last show on WFAN in New York, a radio station he helped build as the first sports talk radio station in America.