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iHeartMedia, which on March 15 announced it had reached an agreement with lenders to restructure its balance sheet, has about 17,000 employees working at 850 radio stations. With so many news outlets available today, and so may ways to receive that news instantly, it can be a challenge to keep all those people motivated if they are being fed misinformation. That's where CEO Bob Pittman and CFO Richard Bressler come in.

Emmis' NewsRadio KLBJ in Austin was right in the middle of the action, right on top of the story in Austin, as Mark Anthony Conditt went on his bombing spree in and around Austin. We reached out to KLBJ Program Director Mark Caesar and News Director Todd Jeffries to get a glimpse of how the station followed the event that seemed to be changing by the minute over a three-week period.

And the reason Cumulus requested more time was to keep others away who may be thinking about filing a competing plan to restructure Cumulus, muddying up the progress made so far.

If you're a long-time listener to Howard Stern, you know Stern has said that Imus was pretty mean to him when they worked together at WNBC in New York, not the other way around.

Jeff Warshaw continues to sell stations. Is he banking cash just in case a few stations come available at the end of this year? On Thursday, Townsquare announced it was buying Connoisseur's three New Jersey stations, WPST-FM 94.5, WNJE-AM 920, and WCHR-AM 1040 for $17 million. In January, Connoisseur sold five stations in Connecticut for $8 million.

(By Lisa Thal) A famous phrase in the American vernacular, especially when it comes to professional sports, is “in the zone.” In sales, we too experience those “in the zone” moments, mainly when three particular conditions are in play...

(By Roy Williams) Here’s how I explain the cognitive bias that has become so alarmingly evident: “The intellect can always find logic to justify what the heart has already decided. Consequently, data is often used in the same way that a drunk man uses a lamppost: for support, not for illumination.”

NewsRadio 610 and NewsRadio 96.7 have announced that the New Hampshire Today morning show’s fourth annual “Make 12 Hours Count” radiothon raised over $160,000 to benefit Veterans Count, an organization that provides assistance to New Hampshire veterans, service members, and their families.

On Wednesday, omnibus appropriations legislation that includes $1 billion in additional funding for the broadcast spectrum incentive auction repack was released. How much was included for radio stations that might be affected by the repack? Let's find out.

ABS Entertainment, Barnaby Records, Brunswick Records, and Malaco have jointly file an objection to Cumulus' reorganization plan. These four companies say Cumulus has not obtained performance rights licenses or paid public performance royalties for recordings from their artists prior to 1972 and is exploiting the pre-1972 recordings for profit.