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On the heels of our advertiser success story with Kelly's Kawasaki, we thought this would also be a great opportunity to highlight the seller behind the sale. Jeff Salvano was born and raised in Montville, New Jersey. He started his radio career only five years ago and now he's lighting it up for Entercom in Phoenix.

(By Bob McCurdy) There’s been a lot written recently about “brand purpose.” The need for a brand or business to exist beyond just selling things and boosting a stock price. Can this philosophy of having a larger “purpose” apply to those of us selling radio? Absolutely.

It's a 10-year, multimillion-dollar partnership with iHeartMedia's 97.9 ESPN in Hartford which will be the new home for all UConn Huskies sports. The new deal includes regular season and post-season play-by-play for football, men’s and women’s basketball, and men’s hockey.

Entercom's WITC was the long-time home for UCONN sports (since 1991) until the two sides parted ways on Friday when the News-Talker in Hartford announced it would not be renewing its contract to broadcast UCONN Sports once the agreement expires at the end of this basketball season. Here's what Market Manager Phil Zachary said about the breakup.

Community Broadcasters LLC have signed a multi-year agreement to work with the Children’s Miracle Network for the annual CMN Hospitals Radiothon. The 2018 radiothon, scheduled for September 5-7, will benefit McLeod Children’s Hospital in South Carolina.

Digital managers-turned-senior corporate leaders from top broadcast companies will discuss the shift in corporate executive progression from digital professional to CEO in a panel at the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas on Monday, April 9. The panel is titled "DFXTra: Digital Leaders Take Charge -- President and CEO Pane."

Earlier this week Bryan Hollenbaugh and his wife purchased Classic Hits WMJZ-FM in Gaylord, Michigan for $750,000. The previous owners took a $25,000 deposit from the husband and wife team because they know the Hollenbaugh's were serious local broadcasters and will take good care of their signal, and the community. Here's Bryan's story...

The 80 year old sportscaster, who was fired by Imus back in December, says in the suit that Imus routinely cracked "inappropriate" jokes about his age, such as "time to put Wolf out to pasture" and "shoot him with an elephant dart gun." Now Wolf has filed a lawsuit against his former friend.

This isn't something we see often. One company with a cluster, selling one of their very successful stations to a competitor, who also has a cluster in the same market. Ed Levine's Galaxy Communications is selling WOUR to Townsquare in Utica, New York, for $3.9 million.

On Thursday, Univision reported total radio revenue of $79 million for the fourth quarter of 2017. That's an increase of 8.5% over 2016. However, advertising revenue for the radio segment decreased 5.5% to $63.4 million from $67.1 in Q4.