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The radio industry simply couldn't ask for anything better. By all indications the Chairman of the FCC is going to make radio one of his top priorities. We've already seen the Commission under Ajit Pai vote to do away with the 43-year-old rule that required you to save paper letters from listeners. And Thursday, at the NABA Future of Audio Symposium in Washington DC, the Chairman told a very friendly audience, "I’ve made AM radio a personal priority."

Yesterday, we shared a video created by Spotify pushing the power of audio. We also wondered how powerful a similar video about the power of radio would be. Our great friends at the RAB pointed us in the right direction...right to their website. The video about the power of radio the RAB produces is updated regularly and sent out to RAB members. Check it out HERE.

On Thursday, Nielsen released a chart to show how important the News Radio format was in 2016 leading up to the Presidential election. In 2012, News Radio audience levels spiked during that election year, and 2016 proved to be no different.

That was the conclusion from consultant Alan Burns and Strategic Solutions EVP Hal Rood. Thursday afternoon Burns and Rood hosted their first of four webinars to unveil the research they've been conducting on women and the reasons they do, or do not, listen to radio. The top reason they do listen...

The Hispanic-focused broadcaster reported total revenue for its radio division of $72.8 million in Q4 of 2016, compared to $72.1 million a year earlier. If you back out political, radio would have decreased 3.6% to $66.8 million from $69.3 million. Univision owns 67 radio stations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

The University of Miami Athletics and Miami’s Sports Radio 560 announced Thursday that they have entered into a multi-year extension for the station to remain the flagship radio home of Miami Hurricanes games. The station has been a broadcast partner since the 1999 NCAA football season.

(By John Garziglia) In a fact pattern worthy of a law school exam question, an IRS employee calls the Howard Stern Show and is put on hold. The IRS employee on a different line takes a call from a taxpayer while on hold with Howard. The Stern Show picks up, hears the IRS employee talking with the taxpayer and puts the conversation on the air live. The law school question is … in how many ways might the Howard Stern Show be civilly and criminally liable?

And the killing took place while host Luis Manuel Medina was streaming his show live on Facebook. Gunman killed Medina and radio station director Leonidas Martínez. Secretary Dayana García is in a serious condition after being shot in the stomach.

Those were the words from CBS Corp's COO Joe Ianniello Wednesday night on the CBS Q4 earnings call. Ianniello said the new combined radio business will benefit from increased scale, stronger cash flow, and real operational synergies which should drive higher profitability and clearly be the best capitalized radio company in the industry.

What if radio produced a video this professional and every station in America pushed it out via social media? Or a new one every month with different on-air talent and successful advertisers and happy listeners. Pretty powerful. Here's what Spotify is doing to promote The Power of Audio..