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Bryce Burtner is a host on BiCoastal Media's Country station (Q103) in Medford, OR. He was in the line of fire in Las Vegas when Stephen Paddock started shooting toward the Route 91 Harvest Festival from a hotel across the street. Burtner tells ABC 12 in Portland that the worst part of this whole deal was seeing bodies on the ground.

When a major national news story breaks in the middle of the night, in a city hundreds of miles away, how do you cover it? Do you stop airing commercials? How many traffic reports do you carry? We turned to one of the best in the country for those answers, CBS-owned WBBM Newsradio 780 and 105.9 in Chicago.

The Cumulus CEO was recently interviewed by WABC Radio's Rita Cosby (WABC is owned by Cumulus). It's been two years since Berner took over the company from Lew Dickey. In the interview, Berner details the plan she put in place to try to turn around the company. She also discusses turnover, ratings growth, and revenue.

College basketball referee John Higgins has filed a federal lawsuit against Kentucky Sports Radio accusing KSR of creating conditions that led to the harassment of his family after a game he called between Kentucky and North Carolina.

Nothing excites a local community more than a great high school football rivalry and CBS' WIP is taking full advantage of that. SportsRadio 94WIP is giving seven local high school matchups the chance to have their Thanksgiving Day football game broadcast live on WIP.

Woof Boom Radio is purchasing WKHL-FM (106.7) in West Lafayette, Indiana. With this purchase Woof Boom will now own stations in three markets in Indiana and Ohio. The station will be run by Woof Boom Radio Lafayette Managing Partner, Jim Stone.

Neuhoff Communications President and CEO Beth Neuhoff wants to make sure, after the recent publicity, the push to turn on the FM Chip in all cell phones doesn't fade away as the two recent Hurricanes become ancient history.

At Forecast 2018, Jay Abraham will present some of his winning strategies for finding new ways to market radio, maximize its growth, and find new ways to generate revenue. He’ll explain patterns he has identified over the years that limit and restrict business growth, and how most industries only know and use one particular marketing approach.

Thief River Radio GM Jake Weber, Cassie Manzanares and DJ Tischner had been reporting from the Route 91 Harvest Festival and interviewing bands in the media tent when the shooting began.

Beasley Media's Mike West is the morning show host at 102.7 The Coyote in Las Vegas. Mike and about a half dozen other Beasley employees were at the Route 91 Harvest Festival Sunday night when the shooting took place. Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan interviewed Mike about what he saw -- LISTEN HERE.