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Alan Stock is one of the most well-known talk show hosts in Las Vegas. He's been on the air in Vegas for 19 years now, 13 with CBS-owned KXNT where he hosts afternoon drive. When he switched on the news Sunday night to see if anything was going on in the community he calls home, he knew nearly instantly that a major event was taking place.

Keeping to his word to crack down on pirate radio stations, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's enforcement team was is it again, this time notifying four pirates in Florida and one in Queens to shut down their illegal operations. Everyone in the latest notice has 10 days to respond to the Commission about what they were doing running radio stations without a license. Here are the details.

According to NuVoodoo's latest Ratings Prospects Study the answer is yes. The company surveyed nearly 3,000 people (ages 14-54) across all PPM markets. Of the 15.5% of the people who own one or more Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, 46% say they are listening to AM/FM radio through their devices.

CBS' WJFK-FM "The Fan" and WFED-AM in Washington, DC have won the right to broadcast the NHL team's games. Capitals play-by-play announcer John Walton will return for his seventh season and former Capital Ken Sabourin enters his 15th season as analyst. Last year Caps games were heard on Hubbard's WFED-AM. They were on The Fan for years before last year. 

(By Gary Berkowitz) As a radio professional, I’m sure you have often wondered what your listeners are really thinking about your station. Based on countless research studies and in-market focus groups, here are some of the most common points that come up with female AC listeners.

(By Curt Krafft) In addition to Classic Hits and Classic Rock why not Classic Country? Yes, there are some stations that have this kind of format, but not that many. You would think that with the popularity of current country music that Classic Country would be a no-brainer. How about Classic Dance?

(By Ronald Robinson) At the time, and well before George Foreman became an exceptionally affable pitch-man for cookware, he was the most feared man in the fight game. And rightfully so. He destroyed his opponents. When the announcement was made of a Foreman-Muhammad Ali bout, pundits were offering sympathy messages for the former Cassius Clay...

The Country Radio Broadcasters are now accepting applications for the Rusty Walker Scholarship program, which provides for an all-expense paid trip and attendance to CRS 2018, to be held February 5-7. Interested parties can apply now at www.CountryRadioSeminar.com.

This weekend (10/7-10/8), the Westwood One-syndicated Flashback, hosted by rock insider Matt Pinfield, will feature a full, one-hour tribute to Tom Petty, who died earlier this week.

Country star Jason Aldean was onstage in Las Vegas when the bullets started raining down on the audience. On Tuesday Aldean posted a message on Facebook announcing he would be canceling four concerts planned for this weekend in California as a result of what happened.