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Thursday was Mike Francesa's second to last show on WFAN in New York City, after spending 30 years on the air there. Francesa did his show in front of a live audience from The Paley Center. He'll broadcast his final show today from the studio, which it looks like from this picture with Entercom Sports Format Captain Mark Chernoff, has been named after him.

Thanks to XAPPMedia's voice technology, 300 Cumulus radio stations are rolling out Amazon Alexa skills. The company has started a consumer marketing campaign to educate listeners on how to find and enable the technology. Markets launching the Alexa skills include New York City, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Dallas.

The 12th annual Midwest Communications Radiothon for Kids raised more than $300,000 for Chilrdren’s Miracle Network and Sanford Children’s Hospital. The 24-hour radiothon on 92.5 KTWB, Q95-7, 101.9 KELO-FM, and 103.7 KRRO featured a first-of-its-kind challenge from an anonymous donor, who challenged the community of Sioux Falls to rally and surpass the previous year’s amount by $25,000.

Morning MIX hosts Greg Curtis and Mrs. Grant hosted the annual MIX Miracles Radiothon live from Tucson Medical Center Thursday and Friday, December 7-8. The event raised $262,754 in donations from listeners and local businesses to provide equipment and life-saving services for TMC for Children.

Alpha’s 98.7 The Bull (KUPL/Portland) raised $207,410 with their 4th Annual St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Radiothon on December 7-8. Tony Russell, Jake Byron, Danny Dwyer, and MoJoe Roberts broadcast live from the PDX Live Studio both days.

In recent years we've seen too many police officers killed, wounded and attacked in the line of duty. On Thursday, The FCC took action to help alert the public when that happens by adding the new "Blue Alert" option to the nation’s emergency alert system.

Joan Mestres is a senior marketing consultant for Hubbard Interactive in St. Louis. Mestres decided running PSAs for a local charity just wasn’t enough. She got creative, stayed persistent, and created several ideas for the Greater Missouri Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Not only did her ideas raise funds for the organization, they produced revenue for the station.

According to Nielsen, PPM data shows News/Talk reigned supreme once again as the number one radio format. And that comes as no surprise with so many natural disasters, the political landscape in Washington, and listeners' desire to know what's going on in their local communities.

The NAB reports that with the addition of five more members from the House of Representatives, 220 now support the Local Radio Freedom Act, two more than needed to constitute a majority. The resolution opposes any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge on radio stations. Here are the five new members.

According to the Chicago Tribune, former Chicago radio host Roma Wade recently sold her 2,200-square-foot Chicago condo for $770,000. Along with her late husband Don, the condo on Lake Shore Drive was purchased back in 1995 for $265,000. The couple worked at WLS together from 1986 to 2012. Don died of brain cancer in 2013 at the age of 72. Wade now lives in Florida.