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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.

WGN Radio will debut The WGN Radio Holiday Spectacular, a live variety show featuring the station’s talent, on Friday, December 15 from 10 a.m. to Noon. Co-hosted by Bill Leff and Dometi Pongo, listeners will be treated to seasonal songs, classic stories, yuletide poetry, and a live report from a certain workshop at the North Pole.

The contest was called "Win a Baby," at Beasley's B103.9 in Fort Myers. Morning man 'Big Mama' decided to host the contest after he and his wife struggled with infertility. The prize, which went to Anthony and Krista Rivera was in vitro fertilization treatment.

(By Paul Curran) My son turned 18 earlier this year. Putting aside my anxiety on how quickly he is growing up, it occurred to me that for the first and only time in our respective lifetimes, we are now joined together in one of the most coveted demographic groups for advertisers…Adults 18-49.

This Thursday, the NAB will be hosting a webcast on the topic of the digital dashboard. NAB CTO Pat Methany's guests will be President of Jacobs Media Fred Jacobs, engineering consultant Glynn Walden, and Hubbard Senior Vice President of Programming Greg Strassell. The webcast is free for NAB members, $99 for non-members.

NBC Sports Northwest and iHeartMedia Portland announced a new content partnership in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday. The collaboration will rebrand iHeartMedia’s Rip City Radio 620 to NBC Sports Northwest Rip City Radio.

The iHeartRadio So Cal Fire Relief Project, a fundraising effort in partnership with Westfield that will collect funds for the victims of the ongoing Southern California wildfires, launches today. More than a quarter million acres have burned in the Creek, Rye, Thomas, Lilac, and Skirball fires collectively, and close to 1,217 structures have been destroyed.

New Country 96.3 KSCS/Dallas-Ft. Worth raised $414,739.47 for Cook Children’s, a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, during its 4th Annual KSCS Cook Children’s Radiothon on December 11. It's the most KSCS has raised for the hospital during the single-day event  and brings the station's four-year total to more than $915,000.

Beasley Latin Pop station 92.5 MAXIMA (WYUU/Tampa-St. Petersburg) hosted its annual Promesa y Esperanza for St. Jude Kids Radiothon on Thursday, December 7 and Friday, December 8, raising a total of $162,280!

Chet Buchanan ends Las Vegas’ 98.5 KLUC’s 19th Annual Chet Buchanan Show Toy Drive with another record-setting year of donations. The 12-day event filled 32 50-foot Coca-Cola trailers with new toys, along with 8,109 bikes and $455,550 in cash and gift cards.