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Cumulus has again extended the early tender date for its private exchange offer for all 7.75% senior notes due 2019. The last old date was February 13. The new date is March 6. The previous deadline was January 23 and there were two others before that.

All four RAB sessions are a part of the Business of Broadcast Conference being held at the Las Vegas Convention Center North Hall during the NAB show April 22-27. RAB CEO Erica Farber says, “RAB’s main objective is growing revenue share for the radio industry from Madison Avenue to Main Street."

The day I committed to asking for local direct annual contracts was the beginning of my road to becoming the top biller in my market. And I learned how to do that by paying attention to the small advertising agencies that were stealing my clients.

Alan Burns is the king of the tease. Once again he's letting out another tidbit of information before his series of four webinars, which kicked off Wednesday at 2 p.m. This time he asks women whether they like Pandora more than their favorite radio station. And the answer is...

(By Ronald Robinson) From time to time, some very bright, experienced, and sincere pundits will drop by with a set of admonishments about generating better ad copy for radio. I accept that many of the points have merit in terms of improving the banal and annoying ad services being supplied by most of radio.

The station will carry Redskins Radio Network broadcasts in the Washington, DC metro area on game days, beginning with the 2017 NFL season. WMAL will supplement the team’s flagship home on ESPN980 AM (WTEM), 92.7 FM (WWXT), and 94.3 FM (WWXX) in the market.

Miles Ahead Broadcasting chooses Compass as its new ad sales rep firm for the syndicated weekend show Cafe Mocha. Southern California-based national radio syndicator, MannGroup Radio, selects Compass for national ad sales representation. And Coast to Coast Radio Networks, producer of music libraries and short-form features, will also now use Compass as its rep for national ad sales.

The owner of SB Nation Radio, has acquired the digital provider of lifestyle content creating a multi-platform media company reaching nearly eight million people monthly.

Here's more positive radio ammo for your sellers to take out on the streets. According to Media Ecologist Jack Myers, radio is expected to see a 12.3% increase in ad spending over the next three years. Myers released his 29th Annual Marketing & Advertising Data and Spending Forecast yesterday with all the details.

The Hollywood Reporter has the details about the lawsuit filed by Judith Barrigas. She says she called the IRS on May 19, 2015 to discuss how the tax agency had applied prior year liabilities to her tax refund. Then everything went sideways...