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The Radio One Compensation Committee agreed to pay out bonuses to several Radio One executives for their performance in 2016. CEO Alfred Liggins will receive $1.25 million and founder Cathy Hughes receives $500,000, which represents a 100% payout of their bonus potential. Who else did and didn't get bonuses?

The Academy of Country Music has announced the full list of Radio Awards nominees for the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards. Radio Award nominees will not be televised due to time constraints in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 2. The awards will be presented during an ACM Party for a Cause event at The Joint on Saturday, April 1 in Vegas. Here are the nominees...

The lineup includes Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum, Trace Adkins, Crystal Gayle, LOCASH, Cam, Michael Ray, Chris Lane, Carly Pearce, and Dailey & Vincent. The show will be held on Feb. 22, starting 7 p.m.

Sports station WCLY-AM in Raleigh will also be heard on 95.7 and rebranded "95.7 The Ticket." Capitol GM of Sports Radio Brian Maloney said, “We're in the business of providing sports content to our listeners and we deliver the content on numerous platforms. The addition of The Ticket on 95.7 FM fits perfectly with our other FM sports talk properties and digital initiatives."

(By Ronald Robinson) Radio has yet to acknowledge or appreciate that superior forms of communicating to audiences – both for on-air and in the writing of copy – exist and are readily available. And when I say superior, I mean more listenable, more appealing, and more effective.

Wisconsin will be home to a new liberal-leaning radio station starting today. Devil’s Advocate Radio is buying WRRD-AM (1510) from Craig Karmazin's Good Karma Broadcasting. Devil's Advocate Radio is owned by college roommates Dominic Salvia and Michael Crute, who also host a show which will be part of the new lineup.

Cayuga Radio Group President and General Manager Chet Osadchey tells Radio Ink the reason for the format flip was because of the loss of so much progressive, syndicated programming over the past few years. He says the station was unable to fill a solid lineup and they were already repeating shows daily.

When was the last time a listener visited your station looking to read the letters you received from other listeners? Has that ever happened? These days the public can pretty much watch other listeners react to your station on Facebook or Twitter in real-time, every day.

The station in Salem, SC, is owned by Lake Keowee Broadcasting. A song played repeatedly for about 20 minutes on Sunny 107.9 Monday night with graphic language aimed at the President. Here's what station President Frank Patterson told Radio Ink last night...

Conservative talker Lars Larson of Alpha's FM News 101 KXL in Portland. When President Trump took over, The White House said four reporters would be chosen for “Skype Seats,” which is aimed at allowing reporters or hosts outside Washington to participate in the daily White House press briefings. Here's what Larson said about being chosen.