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If you've never listened to Saga Communications CEO Ed Christian's earnings calls before Tuesday, you might think he dabbled in Russian vodka himself before getting into his quarterly numbers. This time around Christian peppered CFO Sam Bush (pictured) with questions about Russia.

Same-station revenue for the company declined 1.1% to $29.6 million. Same-station revenue for the nine months of 2017 was $85.8 million compared to $88.2 million for the same period last year. CEO Ed Christian and CFO Sam Bush did not go into any details about market or category performance for the quarter, and said October was pacing up while it was too early to tell how November and December would end up.

Same-station revenue for the Christian conservative company was down nearly 5% to $48.3 million. The Christian teaching and talk format was off 6%, the news/talk format was down 2%, music stations declined 4%, and the Salem Radio Network dropped 3.5%.

November 1 through November 22, 102.5 KNIX will hold the “Million Can Crusade” for the 10th year to help hungry families across Arizona.  Their goal is to surpass last year’s total of to 1.5 million cans of nonperishable food items for St. Vincent de Paul

Benztown, the imaging, voiceover, and jingle folks, are calling for applications for their fourth annual Benztown 50 – an exclusive listing of radio’s biggest imaging voices. Voice talent can apply for the Benztown 50 from now through December 1, 2017 at www.benztown.com/50.

According to a new study by Piper Jaffray, teens are turning their backs on Pandora. In its semi-annual survey of US teens, Piper Jaffray asked the question: “Do you listen to music on Pandora?” 35% of those in the study answered “yes.” In 2014 when teens were asked the same question: 74% answered "yes."

Once I heard Jay Abraham’s take on radio, I begged him to come to our Forecast conference at the Harvard Club in New York on November 15. And, I asked him to bring one of his billionaire clients, Shark Tank’s Daymond John.

On Monday more details were released regarding who will run the Entercom markets once the deal to merge with CBS Radio closes. The new information came from COO Weezie Kramer, who told Entercom employees that all Entercom Market Managers will be elevated to Senior Vice President, to be consistent with CBS Radio titles, and all Entercom Regionals will receive the President title. Here are the specifics on who will run each market and who will cover each region. 

Greg Ashlock, previously President of iHeartMedia Markets Group West Division, who also served as the senior business leader representing the company in the west, has been named President of the iHeartMedia Markets Group. Ashlock will now manage the entire iHeartMedia Markets Group, including all 850-plus radio stations in over 150 markets. 

Two in Queens and one near Boston were nabbed by the Commission. Ignace Jean-Charles of Mattapan, Massachusetts, Efrain Lanchi Ortega from Queens, and Migui Mora also from Queens were put on notice that they have 10 days to shut down the pirate radio stations they were operating and respond to the FCC. Here are all the details...