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The fourth annual festival will take place at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami on Saturday, November 4 and will include performances by Nacho, Gente De Zona, Don Omar, CNCO, Reik, Jesse y Joy, and Camila Cabello, with more artists to follow. For the second year, the concert will be hosted by Enrique Santos.

The next free webinar from Benztown and P1 Media group will look at Why Vulnerable Personalities Win. Urban programming specialist Elroy Smith will be the guest.

Dick Broadcasting's Jared and Katie in the Morning on KZL-FM and Entercom's 3 Live Crew from 102 JAMZ in Greensboro, NC are coming together this morning for a discussion on the murder of George Floyd, protesting, riots, and the Black Lives Matter movement. 

With 47,350 spots airing nationally last week, Geico remained atop the Media Monitors list of radio advertisers. Employment Services company Indeed was again in second place.

In a preliminary notice to shareholders filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Audacy intends to vote on a reverse stock split to keep the company on the New York Stock Exchange.

The launch was September 1 and the station can be heard on heritage signals that include 600AM, 1200AM and other Curtis Media AM and FM frequencies. WSJS will be a full-market Sports Talk outlet in the Greensboro/High-Point/Winston-Salem market.

Joseph Baca and his wife Loretta, owners of KFUN-AM and KLFV-FM in Las Vegas, New Mexico are ready to move on. They've either worked or owned the stations for the past 42 years. Both are 75 years old now. The Las Vegas Optic reports how Baca was able to purchase the station when he hit the lottery for $1 million.

Bob Adams has been the Market Manager for Saga in Portland for a little over five years. On Monday he was taken to lunch and he never returned. We understand his replacement has been hired and could be announced by Saga any day. Here's what the company said about the change.

WWL New Orleans afternoon host "Scoot" is recovering from injuries he suffered after a motorcycle hit him while he was walking across Canal Street. This picture was posted to Scoot's Facebook page.

(By Mike McVay) While it shouldn’t amaze me that there’s little appreciation for the theory of “cause and effect” … it does. Moreso, it disappoints me, because it's all leading to radio's surrender.