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iHeartMedia Denver and the Colorado Rockies have signed a five-year extension of their radio broadcast agreement that will keep Rockies baseball on KOA NewsRadio 850 AM & 94.1 FM through the 2021 season. Jack Corrigan and Jerry Schemmel will continue as voices of the Colorado Rockies. Corrigan is in his 14th season and Schemmel is in his sixth.

(By Jeff McHugh) Inexperienced hosts sometimes have unstructured, relaxed, on-air conversations which are great for chatting with friends over happy hour but not so good for holding short-attention-span audiences.

That's been the big question for years. Is it worth your time to put together a podcast if not enough people are listening for advertisers to support it. A new report from Nielsen indicates that there are new data that shows advertisers should be spending more money on podcasts.

For a second week, BioNTech-Pfizer occupies the top-slot on the Media Monitors radio ad list. The COVID Vaccine maker saw nearly 80,000 more spots aired over the previous weeks total.

Audacy will conduct 45 volunteer events nationwide to celebrate Earth Day April 22. The effort is part of the company's 1Day1Thing Sustainability Initiative designed to engage employees across the company to make a positive impact on the communities in which the company serves.

96.3 News Radio KKOB, Albuquerque, has raised more than $27,000. The 3rd Annual Radiothon to Fight Hunger in New Mexico benefits the Roadrunner Food Bank.

Larry Wilson is Radio Ink Magazine's Radio Executive of The Year. The issue, in which Wilson appears on the cover, is out this week. The Alpha Media CEO is in the midst of creating his second large radio company, which will consist of 252 stations in 54 markets once the deal with Digity closes (which is expected soon). His first big company was, of course, Citadel which he sold to Forstmann Little back in 2001 for $1.2 Billion. Wilson and his team created a culture in radio that many people loved to work for at Citadel and that has carried over to Alpha. Here's an excerpt from our cover story with Wilson where we ask him to tell us why people love to work for him.

Jacobs Media Strategies is mounting a third study on how COVID-19 is affecting radio. The study, in partnership with the RAB, will take at look at how radio audiences plan to shop this holiday season.

Kudos to Connoisseur Media's Country station WFRE-FM in Frederick, MD for bringing in $472,991 from its listeners during the “Free Country Cares For St. Jude Kids Radiothon” last month.

With days to go before NAB Show 2023, it is confirmed that Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel will address the convention on the Main Stage. Her talk will follow the fireside chat with NAB President Curtis LeGeyt on Monday morning.