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Spotify is being sued by two publishers out of Nashville. According to Variety, Rob Gaudino and Bluewater Music allege that Spotify did not have a license to stream thousands of songs from their catalogs. They are asking for $150,000 per infringement.

CBS CEO Les Moonves will make an appearance on The Dan Sileo Show this Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. Sileo hosts a sports talk show on The Mighty 1090 in San Diego which is owned by Broadcast Company of the Americas. Sileo plans to ask Moonves about selling off the CBS Radio stations. Listen to the interview Friday morning HERE.

Scholarship winners for this year’s Rising Through the Ranks Seminar, presented by the RAB, BMI, and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio group have been selected. Twenty-five broadcasters will attend this year’s seminar August 16-17 at the BMI Nashville office thanks to the scholarships.

The 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival lineup of artists was announced on Tuesday. This year, the two-day event will feature performances by Coldplay, DJ Khaled, Chris Stapleton, Kings of Leon, Big Sean, P!NK, Miley Cyrus and others. Ryan Seacrest will again be the host. The event will take place September 22 and 23 in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.

Since March, iHeartCommunications has been trying to convince lenders and bondholders to restructure about $15 billion of the company's debt. What iHeart was offering the lenders has not convinced them to buy into the plan and iHeart has continued to extend the deadline of their offer. There has been a counteroffer made by one of the lenders which that lender believes may bring other lenders in.

Financial forecasters and radio executives will discuss radio’s regulatory and economic future in a session titled “Pillsbury’s Broadcast Finance 2017: Is Radio Ready for a New Deal?,” Wednesday, September 6, from 8:00-9:30 a.m. at the Radio Show in Austin.

With input from RAB’s Sales Advisory Committee and the Local Market Advisory Sub-Committee, the Radio Advertising Bureau has launched its newly designed "Why Radio" micro-site. The site is focused on featuring the latest research and insights to help members tell radio’s story.

We now know when the Mike & Mike morning show on ESPN Radio will end and the Golic & Wingo show will begin. ESPN says the new program will begin airing November 27. Mike Greenberg is moving over to television where he'll host his own show. Greenberg and Golic have been hosting mornings on ESPN for 18 years. Their last day will be November 17.

On Monday, United Stations Radio Networks announced a partnership with The House of Hair and The Daily House of Hair Cut. USRN will handle ad sales for the national commercial time in the shows, which are hosted by Dee Snider. Bernadette Productions will handle affiliate relations.

They call it "93 Days of Kindness," but you get the idea that Scotty and Bret, hosts of Cumulus Media-Dallas-Fort Worth's Hot 93.3 morning show, Scotty K and Bret Mega Mornings, would be kind all year round. The guys teamed up last Wednesday with the Dallas Fallen Officers Fund to do their part in honoring Officer Mark McCullers, a Southern Methodist University police officer, father of six children, and former U.S. Marine, who tragically lost his life in the DFW-area flash floods last August.