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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..

Details of a new Nielsen study, commissioned by Westwood One, were released Monday. The focus was listeners who were exposed to a "major motorcycle" brand that ran ads during Westwood One's coverage of the NFL and NCAA basketball. And Pierre Bouvard says the results were outstanding for radio.

We've been reporting for years that businesses have been shifting their ad dollars to digital. It's the shiny new platform and everybody's doing it, often without measuring whether campaigns are even working or not. However, this story might give some of your advertisers pause the next time they consider advertising on the latest and greatest social media site.

In the issue out this week and our next several issues, Radio Ink will be spotlighting companies that are generating real digital revenue for radio. XAPPMedia is a technology company that focuses on interactive audio services, and one of the goals of the company is to help radio stations generate revenue in the voice space, which includes Alexa and Google Home.