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The Southwest Florida host died this past weekend at the age of 46. Garrett battled respiratory issues for most of his life which is what he passed away from on Sunday. He leaves behind a wife and young son which is who the donations in this GoFund me account will be given to.

Shaun Buford is the Director of Sales for Entercom in Norfolk, VA. He's responsible for directing the sales efforts of the entire cluster, coaching a salesforce of 17 people. He started in radio in his early twenties and hasn't looked back.

Over the past few years there has been a growing perception that most millennials only want to work in Silicon Valley — and that they have no desire to work in radio. We’ve found that not to be the case. Andrew Harby is the local sales manager for Neuhoff Media in Springfield, IL. He’s 27 and says he started in radio when he was 12...

As he continues to leak out information about his new research, Alan Burns says radio has a complicated relationship with teens and 15-24 year-olds. The data will be released in a series of four free webinars, the first one being Thursday. Here's the teaser from Burns today...

We are seeing it more and more...colleges no longer interested in subsidizing campus radio stations are selling them off. On Tuesday Northern Kentucky University approved a plan to sell WNKU-FM to Bible Broadcast Corp. for $1.9 million. The college was spending about $1 million every year to keep the station going.

The show is called Beyond Reality, a two-hour talk show about the paranormal. Westwood One is partnering with Entercom to syndicate the show starting March 6. It's already airing on 16 Entercom stations. Premiere has pretty much owned that timeslot with Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory and before that Art Bell.

According to automotive experts, Hispanic consumers could be the industry’s leading growth engine for the next 30 years. And automotive has been a huge Hispanic radio advertising category. But the market, much like the industry, is changing. Are auto dealers making mistakes by applying traditional sales methods to a generation used to pointing and clicking?

Two House Reps and two Senators have joined as cosponsors of a resolution against "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on radio that the NAB is pushing on Capitol Hill. The Local Radio Freedom Act now has 129 cosponsors in the House and 12 in the Senate.

Broker Bob Heymann tells us the student radio station at UNC is celebrating its 40th year with a reunion on March 18. He says if you ever DJ’d, read news, reported sports, sold time, or soldered wire at UNC, you played a part in this history and are warmly invited back.

Nominations close Today for the 2017 Medallas de Cortez awards. There are eight categories. Awards will be presented at the Hispanic Radio Conference, March 28-29 in Fort Lauderdale at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty Six. Click here to make your nomination..