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Entravision CEO Walter Ulloa was very complimentary about Entravision's syndicated network lineup on the company earnings call, Thursday night. That content includes Erazno y la Chokolata (who will appear on the March 27 cover of Radio Ink Magazine), Alex El Genio Lucas and Eduardo Piolin Sotelo. Ulloa says that lineup has a lot to do with Entravision's advertising success.

As Entravision’s President & Chief Operating Officer, Liberman will continue to lead the management and operation of all of Entravision’s radio, television and digital media properties, and will continue to report directly to CEO Walter Ulloa.

And even more news from Entravision as the company announces the purchase of a company called Headway, which provides mobile, programmatic, data and performance digital marketing solutions primarily in the U.S., Mexico and Latin America. Here's what Entravision CEO Walter Ulloa said about the deal.

Entercom and CBS Radio have established pricing for a seven-year, $500 million senior secured term loan B to be issued in connection with their merger. The loan will be issued to refinance Entercom’s capital structure, with proceeds used to repay its existing term loan and redeem its preferred stock, as well as pay transaction fees and expenses.

The gang at the musicFIRST coalition isn't going to like this. The NAB just announced 13 Representatives and three Senators have joined as cosponsors of the resolution that opposes "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local broadcast radio stations. The Local Radio Freedom Act now has 142 cosponsors in the House and 15 in the Senate.

(Eric Rhoads) Imagine for a moment that your transmitter went down for five days. How would you still make significant contact with your listeners to keep them engaged, to communicate with them, and to get them back once you got back on the air? You say it could never happen? Perhaps not, but sometimes the best plans do go wrong.

(By Roy Williams) My goal today is to teach you how to use metaphors to make your data more interesting so that you can drive more traffic to your clients, close a higher percentage of your sales presentations, and persuade more people.

The iHeartRadio Music Awards will air live this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on Turner's TBS, TNT, and truTV. The awards will also air simultaneously on iHeartMedia stations nationwide and across the iHeartRadio digital music platform.

For the ninth year, Compass Media Networks will broadcast exclusive, national, audio coverage of the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament, beginning Wednesday, March 8 and concluding with the Championship game on Sunday, March 12.

The Executive Director of the musicFIRST Coalition blasted out an e-mail yesterday that took several shots at radio. As the NAB continues to add signatures to the Local Radio Freedom Act, Israel and musicFIRST are pushing Congress to mandate that radio pay artists directly in order to play their music. Here's our suggestion...