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It's called "96.9 The Bull, Des Moines’ No. 1 for New Country," and Market President Joel McCrea says the station provides an amazing opportunity for Des Moines by offering a wider variety of music and entertainment. "We couldn't be more excited to connect Des Moines Country music fans with the hottest Country artists." The station will broadcast on KDRB-HD2.

That's the message in a company-wide video by Cumulus CEO Mary Berner posted to Vimeo. It was called the "Be a LEADer Town Hall. The goal of the video is to get every Cumulus employee to play a role in lifting sales at every radio station across the country.

That's something radio executives will be happy to hear, because it's coming from a major advertiser. Procter and Gamble's Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard said it on Sunday. Radio executives have long been concerned that advertisers were throwing buckets of money at all forms of digital and social, mostly because it's the shiny new thing, not necessarily because it's increasing business.

Radio managers know when large crowds gather, they want their call letters and vans and hosts and mascots anywhere and everywhere in those crowds. Craft beer festivals, concerts, and sports are just a few major event categories that radio has jumped on to stand before the people.

They are calling it the Content Innovation Group and Entercom is saying this is part of the company’s "commitment to delivering the best curated music, news, talk, and sports content in the markets we serve." President of Programming Pat Paxon said, “We are pleased to kick off the year with this exciting and progressive move."

It was short and sweet. A one-page filing by United States District Court Judge James Whittemore who has required the lead attorney's to attend a case management conference in Tampa on Monday, February 6th at 3:30 p.m.

The Auto Parts Superstore jumped from 34th to third on the Media Monitors weekly chart last week by airing 25,180 commercials on radio stations all across the country. GEICO was number one with 47,494, followed by Walgreens with 28,981. Rounding out the top five were McDonald's (25,162) and Staples (24,981).

Cumulus Media’s 790 KABC was honored for broadcast news excellence with Three Golden Mike Awards from the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California, on Saturday. The Golden Mike's are Southern California's most prestigious broadcast-journalism prize.

Westwood One News was the network radio winner of a Golden Mike. The award was for LA correspondent Jim Roope’s report from last July 9 on the LAPD graduation. Snoop Dog, The Game, and Black Lives Matter members attended to open a dialogue to end the violence immediately following the Dallas police shootings.

The radio marketing company has been recognized by the March of Dimes as winner of its regional Humanitarian Award for volunteerism, mission awareness, and philanthropic efforts. The award, as part of the Connecticut-Western Massachusetts Chapter’s “Spirit of Giving,” is given to a corporate sponsor and was presented to CRN Executive VP and partner Dick Kalt.