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(By Eric Rhoads) In our busy lives it’s hard enough to keep up with employees, advertisers, promotions, dealing with budgets, and all the things that come with running a radio station. Yet, I found in my life as a broadcaster the most gratifying moments in all my years of station ownership were those moments when we leveraged our brand and our listeners to help others.

That's according to Consultant Alan Burns who says his study of 2000 women revealed that six out of every ten women know how to connect to the Internet in their car, however radio still dominates their audio listening.

(By Bob McCurdy) There was a terrific article in ADWEEK recently by Andy Sippel, SVP at Advertising Perceptions, a business intelligence firm that serves the ad industry. It was titled, “Reach Is The New Black: Advertising’s Mass Re-Awakening,” with a sub-title that read, “Narrow Targeting Has Its Uses But TV and Radio Offer Greater Impact.” It got me thinking...

From Wall Street investors to your local direct sales, ratings, and technology, Hispanic radio leadership’s perspective on today’s industry will help you navigate what’s coming tomorrow. And at Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference next month, Jose Valle will moderate this exciting panel discussion

In his latest Media Unplugged, Mark Ramsey points out that Apple CEO Tim Cook argues that fake news is “killing people’s minds.” Ramsey disagrees. "Not only do we think that Tim is dead wrong, we also think he’s powerless to change the state of things." In this episode of Media Unplugged Ramsey says he and Tom Asacker go inside what’s really going on in media.

Wheatstone has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Pacific Research & Engineering from GatesAir (formerly Harris Broadcast) for an undisclosed amount.

Saga Communications’ six station cluster in Jonesboro, Arkansas partnered with Raycom Media’s KAIT-TV in Jonesboro for a Wishathon. An astounding $351,123 was raised for the Make-A-Wish foundation.

At Thursday's NABA Future of Audio Symposium in Washington, DC, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said you could make a case that all smartphones should have their FM Chips activated on public safety grounds alone. However he said because he is a free market kind of guy he cannot support a government mandate requiring activation of the chips.

The prestigious Hispanic Radio Conference "Medallas de Cortez" awards received an unprecedented number of nominations this year by the close of Wednesday's (2/15) deadline.

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York and ruled that there is no common law right to performance fees in sound recordings created prior to 1972, and that there were no alternative grounds for finding Sirius XM liable.