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Educational Media Foundation paid $5.63 million for Brown University's WLVO-FM (formerly WBRU-FM) in Providence. The deal was first announced on August 29. The student-run station moved to an all-digital platform. Robert Maccini of Media Services Group was the broker for Brown Broadcasting in the deal.

Mr. Master and Premiere Networks have reached an agreement for Premiere to become the exclusive sales rep for Mr. Master’s AIM software. AIM (Automation Import Manager) allows stations to automatically process their audio, place it into automation systems, and post the exact time of airing back to the content provider.

Lazer Broadcasting’s listeners have donated close to $1 million for Mexico’s earthquake victims, relief for Sonoma County residents affected by wildfires, and support for the hospitals of the Children’s Miracle Network. The company's 9th annual 3-day CMN Radiothon raised $752,228.84.

The Hermitage, TN outfit won the final competition event at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville. Radio Romance will receive national radio airplay on Cumulus Media radio stations, and a recording contract under the Big Machine Label Group umbrella.

Is this the start of the end for Cumulus or the first step to a refinance and manageable debt load? Cumulus was scheduled to make an interest payment of $23.6 million on 7.75% senior notes due 2019. In an SEC filing Wednesday, Cumulus' board of directors authorized the company to forgo that interest payment and a 30-day clock is ticking.

The radio landscape across the country will look a whole lot different when the Entercom/CBS merger closes in mid-November. On Wednesday, Entercom announced a series of deals to satisfy a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by The Department of Justice and move the CBS merger ball closer to crossing the goal line.

iHeartMedia already had six stations in Boston and six stations in Seattle before picking up four Boston stations (two from Entercom and two from CBS) and adding three CBS stations in Seattle in this massive transaction to help Entercom close its merger with CBS.

They're getting one of the top sports talk stations in the country, WBZ-FM. The station also carries the New England Patriots, the Boston Celtics, and Bruins Hockey. This means WBZ-FM and Entercom's WEEI-FM will continue to be fierce competitors in that sports-crazy city.

Before this deal was on the table, Bonneville only owned 14 stations in four markets: three in Seattle, three in Phoenix, four in Denver, and four in Salt Lake City. In this deal, Bonneville will add eight more stations: four in San Francisco and four in Sacramento, bulking up to 22.

Without a bundle of cash sitting on the sideline to purchase stations, in order for iHeartMedia to be in on any of these Entercom/CBS divestitures, it had to be willing to trade. And it was. So as iHeart expands in Boston and Seattle, it also exits Richmond and Chattanooga, where Entercom will enter for the first time.