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Fresno’s PowerTalk 96.7 and AM1400 will broadcast the Los Angeles Chargers for the 2017 NFL football season. The stations will be the official Los Angeles Chargers affiliates in Fresno and Visalia, California.

The fourth annual festival will take place at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami on Saturday, November 4 and will include performances by Nacho, Gente De Zona, Don Omar, CNCO, Reik, Jesse y Joy, and Camila Cabello, with more artists to follow. For the second year, the concert will be hosted by Enrique Santos.

It’s a Classic Hits format featuring 30-second audio documentaries that give radio listeners a comprehensive look at the stories behind the biggest Classic Hits songs of all time. The new audio series for Classic Hits radio stations is an addition to Benztown’s “Behind the Song” audio documentaries for the Classic Rock and Classic Country formats, which debuted last year.

Those are the words of CBS Radio Houston Market Manager Sarah Frazier (pictured here) who has her team working frantically to keep the community informed. As of 4 p.m. Sunday, CBS's stations went to an all-news simulcast on KHMX, KILT-FM, KILT-AM, and KKHH. Frazier tells Radio Ink that Monday morning it was clear there was a need to offer local residents a constant stream of evacuation and shelter information.

(By Deborah Parenti) The events unfolding in Houston have been horrible to watch. So many people have been affected by Harvey and their lives will be altered for many years. For broadcasters affected by the storm, you should know there's help out there.

On Monday, WTMJ Radio and 94.5 KTI COUNTRY raised over $69,000 during a fundraiser for disaster relief for those affected by Hurricane Harvey. The money will be given to the American Red Cross.

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Reach Media’s syndicated shows provided interviews with those affected as well as experts from the region to inform those listeners thousands of miles away on what they could do to impact others just like them. Here are just a few examples of what the Reach Media hosts have been doing to help Texas.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America announced Monday morning it is encouraging broadcasters who have been hit by Hurricane Harvey to find out if they qualify for emergency aid by completing the emergency grant request form on their website.

We all know that air checks are a standard yet critical tool in the radio industry. Whether it be for campaign verification or programming evaluation, the air check process has not changed very much in the last 50 years -- it is still fairly laborious and time consuming. While the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been touted as game changing for a variety of industries, the radio industry can also leverage this technology to its advantage.

All is right in the radio world as The Home Depot returned to the top spot on the weekly Media Monitors chart. The big box Home Improvement chain aired 53,468 commercials last week well ahead of the U.S. Department of Transportation (38,923).