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Radio stations all across the country are huge supporters of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and that organization sent this letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to let him know how appreciative they are for all the work radio does. The letter states that radio stations all across the country generated more than $20 million over the past year to help fight childhood cancer.

The only day off-campus is Wednesday, June 7th, when the students tour the Carolina Panthers facility and learn from Play-by-Play Announcer Mick Mixon, then to Charlotte Motor Speedway with the Voice and President of Performance Racing Network, Doug Rice, doing a session for the students and taking them around the track at 100 mph.

Automotive sales continued to be weak as U.S. light-vehicle sales dropped 0.5 percent in May compared to a year ago for radio's number one advertising category. Ford, Nissan and Honda saw an increase for the month, while General Motors, Toyota, FCA and Hyundai-Kia fell.

(By Bob McCurdy) With all of the discussion (long overdue) about neuroscience’s ability to corroborate audio’s impact on us physiologically and behaviorally, I thought it would be helpful to highlight a forgotten website, which I rediscovered earlier this week. The website is www.raisingthevolume.com.

(By Ronald Robinson) Breaking News: Radio is sporting a huge, sucking chest wound! For many, this wound has healed over, leaving only massive scar tissue, which can be hidden with a shirt. This condition has come to be called: Normal.

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.