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Sprint has shifted its advertising business to radio friendly agency Horizon Media. According to Media Post, Spring spent $700 million in advertising in 2016. Mediavest | Spark had been Sprint's ad agency since 2011.

In 29 days, stations will lose network programming from all major companies if they do not re-aim their satellites from AMC-8 to the new AMC-18 at 105 degrees West Longitude.

Cortaro Broadcasting, owner of KCKY in Coolidge, Arizona, has some explaining to do with the FCC. After an inspection, the station was hit with a Notice of Violation this week that includes improper fencing at its tower, not operating its AM station at the correct power and the inability to produce EAS logs. The station has 20 days to respond. Read the full notice HERE.

As if pirate radio stations weren't enough of a headache for broadcasters, now they have to worry about amateur radio operators. The Commission wants Lyle Hilden, the licensee of amateur radio station KD6LUL in Vista, California, to provide more information about his operation.

We previewed this event and now we can tell you that New Country 92.3 raised more than $18,000 for Salvation Army Flood Relief, to benefit Missourians still recovering from the Spring 2017 floods that took place across the state

There are golf tournaments and then there are golf tournaments. But the American Cancer Society’s 10th Annual Coaches vs. Cancer Las Vegas Golf Classic, May 22-23, was in a league of its own. College basketball coaches from around the US raised over a million dollars net with the event and radio was there to cover it.

Or the FCC will take possession of the stations and donate them. That's because the stations have not been serving the public interest and have not been operating for meaningful periods. The Commission gets serious about an FCC license when stations do not serve the public interest or remain silent for most of the term of their license. Read the FCC's order against Cochise HERE.

This all has to do with the complicated issue of fractional licensing. Last week, the Department of Justice filed its opening brief in its appeal of the Southern District of New York’s interpretation of the BMI consent decree related to “fractional licensing.”

WLS PD Brian Thomas tells Robert Feder he hopes the legendary Chicago radio host is back on the air in June. Biondi has been off the air since April, recovering from some sort of leg ailment. The 84-year old did release this statement about his status....

(By Eric Roads) As the world is more than happy to demonstrate these days, change comes at us fast, and often from unexpected — sometimes shocking – directions. Hardly a day passes that some new scandal or revelation doesn’t come roaring at us, reported by what sometimes seems an increasingly panic-prone media. In the midst of so much drama, you have to know who to trust.