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Beasley Media Group CEO Caroline Beasley made it a point to speak about the iHeartMedia and Cumulus bankruptcies, and how they affect the radio industry, yesterday on the company earnings call. Here's what she had to say...

This report will certainly add fuel to the fire for those in radio who believe there should be more deregulation so radio can better compete with the big digital companies. Or those who want the government to regulate the digital giants.

The $1.4 million increase reflects the inclusion of WBZ-FM Boston, partially offset by the disposition of WMJX-FM Boston and the Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville stations. The company says revenue at the company’s other clusters was "comparable" to net revenue in the same period of 2017.

Chief Growth Officer for Publicis Groupe, Rishad Tobaccowala, will headline the 2018 Radio Show Advertiser Breakfast, Thursday, September 27, in Orlando. In an address titled "The Future of Media – Intersection of Advertising and Technology," Tobaccowala will discuss the continued transformation of advertising, marketing, and technology.

Entercom and the NBA's Brooklyn Nets have reached a new multi-year agreement that extends the team’s broadcast rights with New York’s WFAN through the 2020-21 season. The rights include regular season and postseason games.

Nautel kicks off a new Webinar series this month with two “Tips n Tricks” sessions, followed in June by discussions on HD Radio in Canada and engineering recruitment and training issues. The Webinar' are free, run 45 minutes and are open to everyone.

Employees at Beasley Media Group stations HOT 96.9, 105.7 WROR, ALT 92.9, Country 102.5, and 98.5 The Sports Hub donated their time and support to Project Bread’s year-round effort to prevent and end hunger in Massachusetts at the 50th Walk for Hunger & 5K Run.

Thanks to Megan Black from Second Street as well as Tucker Young at Bryan Broadcasting Corporation for this week's Advertiser Success Story. Second Street and KNDE-FM in College Station, Texas, teamed up to generate five year-long leases, 110 new contacts for the client, and $3,500 in revenue for the radio station. Here's how they did it. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

Major Garrett has been a familiar face in television news for years, first with Fox and now with CBS as its chief White House correspondent. Takeout is Garrett’s weekly podcast that covers politics, policy, and pop culture. Each episode is actually recorded over a meal at a Washington, D.C. restaurant.

(By Ronald Robinson) Not only does the print medium access our capacities for critical thinking, electronic media bypasses that -- leaving us more credulous and more gullible, more open to being influenced! We are more apt to believe the material that gets injected into us electronically.