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Audacy and BetMGM have agreed to a multi-year deal designating the sports betting and gaming platform as the preferred sports betting partner with Audacy. Under the agreement, BetMGM also will receive preferred access to Audacy talent.

Midwest Communications Radio of Sioux Falls, SD, put the wraps on its 14th annual Children's Miracle Network Radiothon for Kids raising $278,509 for Sanford Children's Hospital.

Urban One has officially caught up on its earnings reports, though the company likely isn't keen on the results it released after the markets closed on the Friday before Christmas. Q3 saw a substantial net loss for Urban One, even as radio held growth locally and nationally.

It's not often you see a newspaper giving high-fives to radio. Lynn Petrak, writing for the Chicago Tribune, did just that. For years, we've heard radio executives say, "We need to tell a better story." This may be a column you want to send to the printer, then the copy machine. Petrak does an excellent job telling radio's story for you.

Jason Jones, known to Southwest, Florida listeners as Big Mamma on Beasley's WXKB-FM for 14 years, was all in for his run for the Lee County School Board. After Beasley first announced Jones was only off the air while running, Jones then announced he was no longer employed.

It took place in Jackson, Mississippi, at WMPR, which is owned by Charles Evers. According to The Clarion-Ledger the vandalism occurred just a few days after the home of Respect Our Dollars President Stanley Wesley had the same thing happen to his house, which was also set on fire. Wesley hosts a talk show on the station.

The Tampa host calls his listeners The Bubba Army. And, Nicholas Tabachuk tells the Tampa Bay Times those listeners forced him to leave Florida after his name was revealed in the Nielsen ratings tampering scandal with Bubba The Love Sponge.

The two-day 2020 BSM Summit media conference -- to be held at the Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York City, February 26-27 -- just added another six speakers to the schedule.

Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago has filed a defamation lawsuit against a Spanish-language radio station over an on-air conversation between host Roberto Rodriguez Tejera and Commissioner Ariel Fernandez. Lago seeks damages of at least $50,000.

Georgia State University has forged an agreement with 92.9 THE GAME (WZGC-FM) and News & Talk 1380 (WAOK-AM) in Atlanta for the broadcast of all Georgia State University Athletics football, and men’s and women’s basketball games. The partnership is effective at the start of the 2018-19 season.