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The two companies announced a new deal that will include broadcasts of Westwood One’s NFL games on KGMZ AM and FM (The Game) in San Francisco. As part of the agreement, which is exclusive to the Bay Area market, coverage of select regular season and postseason games, including Super Bowl LIII, will be heard on both stations.

Borrell Associates CEO Gordon Borrell joins Forecast 2023 for an exclusive conversation with four top radio and TV executives at Forecast November 16. Our panelists are iHeart Multi-Platform CEO Greg Ashlock, Beasley CEO Caroline Beasley, Standard Media CEO Deb McDermott and Heasrt TV President Jordan Wertlieb.

The NAB show, set to begin later this month in Vegas, will have over 200 companies that are exhibiting for the first time. Some of the new companies to set up on the 1 million-plus square feet of exhibit floor include Google, Vimeo, and TiVo, among others. The 2017 NAB Show, April 22-27, will feature over 1,700 companies, including 751 international exhibitors.

The folks at Progressive clearly appreciate the value of advertising with radio. The insurance giant is once again top of the Media Monitors list of leading advertisers on radio around the nation, running a total of 49,677 ads last week.

Talent Farm, guided by Senior Programmer Steve Wall, has announced the significant expansion of its portfolio, transitioning from a focus on voiceover and voice tracking to becoming a full-service provider for radio stations across the US and Canada.

Continuing our spotlight on how radio is preparing for this massive storm staring down the east coast, today we hear from two more managers who are putting everything possible in place to keep their people safe, stay on the air and provide listeners all the information they'll need if the storm hits their community.

Airing 52,823 commercials on radio stations across the country last week, the Insurance giant was again radio's top advertiser. Indeed held onto the second spot with 49,018. The remainder of the top five were...

(By Randy Lane) When I asked Brian Phillips (President, CMT Networks and previous award-winning radio programmer) his perception of radio after being in television for several years, his response surprised me. “Radio is an audio medium that generally does a poor job with audio.”

One year ago, unique audio offering Fiesta Las Vegas launched as the "only radio station that combines two of the more listened-to genres in...