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The "Spring Forward" to Daylight Saving Time may have led to a groggy Monday for many, but National Religious Broadcasters is again using the opportunity to tell legislators to wake up on a proposed law to make DST permanent.

iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman will bring his podcast to the 2023 NAB Show next month for a live recording with Angela Yee. Pittman and Yee will record an episode of Math & Magic onstage on April 16.

All eyes are on country programmers in Nashville this week. How will they respond to the red-hot controversy of female artists getting the cold shoulder on their radio stations?

Sun Broadcast Group announced Thursday that it will present a special commercial free, three-hour 4th of July edition of its new weekend retro-mix show. The ‘80s Mix, is a weekly unhosted program that features exclusive mixes and mash-ups of hits from Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and more.

Three, three-hour specials are being offered to ABC Audio affiliate for use over the Labor Day weekend. Country Music, Rock Music and News specials are in the line-up.

Nearly 20% of the total US population is Hispanic. That 20% has an annual buying power of $3.2 trillion - more than the entire GDP of the UK. Despite this, Hispanic-focused advertising currently stands at about 4% of total ad spend.

The New York Stock Exchange has halted trading Audacy's shares over continued non-compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standards due to an "abnormally low selling price" of its common stock and has begun delisting procedure. Shares fell to $.09 on Tuesday.

Is podcasting part of your 2020 game plan? The Podcast Business Journal has surveyed 20 podcasting experts to get their take on that industry's rapidly changing landscape, and, how radio fits into their space. Read all 20 of those features HERE.

As part of her Women To Watch in Media profiles series, host Susan Rocco interviewed Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti. The show aired Saturday morning at 6AM on WABC-AM in New York and Sunday night on WPHT-AM in Philadelphia. Listen to the replay as a podcast HERE.

Good news for radio stations in Southeast Ohio. The coal industry is a big deal in that part of the country and Senator Rob Portman (a Republican) is placing a boatload of negative radio ads against his opponent, Democrat Ted Strickland.