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New Country 96.3 KSCS/Dallas-Ft. Worth raised $414,739.47 for Cook Children’s, a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, during its 4th Annual KSCS Cook Children’s Radiothon on December 11. It's the most KSCS has raised for the hospital during the single-day event  and brings the station's four-year total to more than $915,000.

Beasley Latin Pop station 92.5 MAXIMA (WYUU/Tampa-St. Petersburg) hosted its annual Promesa y Esperanza for St. Jude Kids Radiothon on Thursday, December 7 and Friday, December 8, raising a total of $162,280!

Chet Buchanan ends Las Vegas’ 98.5 KLUC’s 19th Annual Chet Buchanan Show Toy Drive with another record-setting year of donations. The 12-day event filled 32 50-foot Coca-Cola trailers with new toys, along with 8,109 bikes and $455,550 in cash and gift cards.

By popular demand, Envision is putting The Country Oldies Show Christmas Special in radio stations’ stockings this season -- three hours of country Christmas music. The special is available for download now and can be broadcast through December 25, 2017.  

The United Stations Radio Networks weekend program The Acoustic Storm will be broadcasting its 1000th episode later this month. The milestone is scheduled for the weekend of December 23 and 24 and will be programmed as the show’s annual Acoustic Christmas episode.

As iHeart works to trim its $20 billion in debt, a new SEC filing shows that the company is willing to sell a big part of its billboard division. The filing says "iHeartCommunications announced Monday it is exploring a possible private capital-raising transaction supported by the value of some or all of the 100,000,000 shares of Class B common stock of Clear Channel Outdoor."

Radio companies pay professional sports teams big bucks for the right to broadcast their games on their radio stations. That trend will continue, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Thanks to Impact Radio Group CEO Darrell Calton and KQBL APD Brenda Mee for sharing this great story about how they helped a local family. The Tillery Fund is a fund in the Boise community started to honor the memory of Joshua Tillery who died when the helicopter he was piloting was shot down in Iraq during a 2009 combat mission. The radio station became involved with the organization two years ago and what they pulled off this year was simply outstanding.

The FCC has sent letters to Wilifrid Salomon in Florida and Robin Dunham in Illinois. Salomon of Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, was cited for operating an illegal radio station from his residence at 101.7 in August and September, and 87.9 in November. Dunham of Carthage, Illinois, is cited for operating an unlicensed station at 990-AM. Dunham's situation is a bit more complicated.

The annual Edison Research study at the 2018 Country Radio Seminar will focus on smart speakers. According to new research, 71% of smart speaker owners who listen to country radio said listening to their favorite AM/FM radio station is a reason they wanted the device.