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The FCC, under Chairman Ajit Pai, continues to give AM broadcasters some love. On Thursday, the Commission moved to open the first of two new FM translator filing windows on July 26.

Connoisseur CEO Jeff Warshaw, along with big-time programmer Michael Sharkey, has launched a new streaming app aimed at helping New York City music fans discover new music and fun stuff to do in the Big Apple. The station is called Satori and the jocks are broadcasting live 24/7 from Brooklyn. Warshaw tells Radio Ink what the goal of the new online radio station is...

Under the headline: "They Said It: Former Radio Executives Slam Terrestrial Radio" -- immediately after the story broke that Warshaw and Sharkey launched their new online radio station -- musicFIRST Coalition sent out a press release pulling quotes from a Billboard interview to try to convince their e-mail base that two "former" radio executives were bashing the radio industry.

Winners for the 2017 Radio Mercury Awards were announced Thursday night at the 26th annual awards presentation held in New York City. This year’s $50,000 Best of Show award was given to The Richards Group for their Motel 6 Campaign. This year’s Marketer of the Year Award was presented to T-Mobile.

The Oakland Raiders are due to move to Las Vegas in 2020 but Beasley Media is getting a jump start by signing a two-year deal to be the Raiders’ flagship in Las Vegas for the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

That's according to the Pensacola News-Journal, and there was no explanation why. The station has been an ESPN affiliate mixing local sports with the ESPN network since 2011. The paper reports owner Dan Weaver informed employees Wednesday that he was ceasing operations immediately.

On Thursday morning, Beasley Media launched "Lite 101.5 FM" on an FM translator in Las Vegas. The station will feature artists such as Maroon 5, Adele, and Madonna, and kick-off with 10,000 songs in a row, commercial-free. It's Beasley's sixth station in the Las Vegas market.

The 2017 CMT Music Awards takes place on June 7, 8 p.m. ET/PT, and CMT and iHeartMedia will again partner up to cover the event, simulcasting the live show from Nashville’s Music City Center across 120 iHeartCountry music radio stations.

And they come from the EVP of Corporate Marketing for Cumulus and Westwood One President Suzanne Grimes, who is one of Radio Ink's 2017 Most Influential Women in Radio. Grimes was recently singled out by Cumulus CEO Mary Berner in Cumulus' latest earnings call after Berner reported Westwood One had a "significantly positive performance in the quarter."

Broadcast Radio controls more than three-fifths of Canadian listening according to a new "Share of Ear" study released by Edison Research. Whether over-the-air or via streaming, AM/FM stations account for 61% of all Canadian listening, according to the study.