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NAB Show will present “From Podcast to Broadcast,” a main-stage keynote session featuring Alex, Inc. executive producers Zach Braff and Matt Tarses, the creators of the hit podcast Up and Vanished, and others. The session will take place Tuesday, April 10 at 9:30 a.m. in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The stations are WNUQ-FM in Albany, GA, KJMO-FM in Columbia, MO, WPCK-FM in Green Bay and WTOD-FM in Toledo. The stations will be put into a trust until they are sold. Here's why they are being moved...

Broadcast equipment from two pirate radio stations in Boston was seized in a joint operation involving the FCC, the U.S. Marshals Service and Boston Police Department. The announcement came from the Department of Justice. Boston, Miami, and New York have the greatest concentration of pirate radio activities. Here's an FCC map of all the known pirates...

...Or is it Buzz? Kevin Klein, who begins hosting mornings on 97.3 The Game in San Diego Thursday, sent out a tweet that included a picture of the Coronado bridge, followed by:  “JUMP … to a new morning show." And that has some in the San Diego community outraged.

Not only is the team asking Entercom to apologize for new host Kevin Klein's tweet -- using the picture of a San Diego bridge to ask listeners to "jump" to a new station -- they are also voicing their displeasure with the station's new format. And, it's being reported they are considering canceling their deal with Entercom.

(By Dave Arland) There’s a lot of talk in the radio industry about two large companies that are now in bankruptcy. Cumulus Media and iHeartMedia together operate nearly 1,300 radio stations across the country -- a little more than 10 percent of the commercial radio industry in the U.S. Well, something is terribly wrong -- but it’s not about the radio business.

The 244 first-time exhibitors will join a wide variety of exhibiting veterans on the nearly one million net square feet of space that make up the NAB Show exhibit floor. NAB Show will be held April 7-12 (exhibits April 9-12) in Las Vegas.

iHeartMedia Albany’s Fox Sports 980, Albany’s Sports Radio, announced today the continuation of their broadcast agreement with the Boston Red Sox through the 2020 season. FOX Sports 980 has been the Capital Region’s official Red Sox affiliate since 2012.

(By Ronald Robinson) Nobody in our culture need travel too far or dig too deep to identify multiple circumstances where indoctrinations have kicked in and are maintaining their hold on the minds of so many in our populations. Those who make their living in radio have similarly been indoctrinated.

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