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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.

Townsquare Media Jersey Shore heritage radio brands 94.3 The Point (WJLK), 92.7 WOBM, 105.7 The Hawk (WCHR), and Beach Radio 1160/1310 (WOBM-AM) have been busy during Q4 2017 with a variety of cause-marketing initiatives, helping raise more than $200,000 for local causes. This includes local food and toy drives, fundraising walks, and radiothons. 

Country radio specialists Mike O’Malley and Becky Brenner have announced that their 24th annual pre-CRS seminar will take place on Monday, February 5, 2018 at the Music City Center, Downtown Nashville, from 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The A&O&B team will present the first highlights from their 13th annual online perceptual study, “Roadmap 2018.”

The Connecticut station’s popular morning team take their show to Jordan’s Furniture in New Haven to raise toys for children in need this holiday season. The annual four-and-a-half-hour “Chaz and AJ McDermott Chevrolet and Lexus Toy Drive” will take place Friday, December 15, 5-10 a.m.

The Cumulus Media Country station raised the impressive amount for the kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in just two days with a united team of radio professionals from stations WIVK, WNML, and WOKI pitching in to answer phones.