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The gang at the musicFIRST coalition isn't going to like this. The NAB just announced 13 Representatives and three Senators have joined as cosponsors of the resolution that opposes "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local broadcast radio stations. The Local Radio Freedom Act now has 142 cosponsors in the House and 15 in the Senate.

(Eric Rhoads) Imagine for a moment that your transmitter went down for five days. How would you still make significant contact with your listeners to keep them engaged, to communicate with them, and to get them back once you got back on the air? You say it could never happen? Perhaps not, but sometimes the best plans do go wrong.

(By Roy Williams) My goal today is to teach you how to use metaphors to make your data more interesting so that you can drive more traffic to your clients, close a higher percentage of your sales presentations, and persuade more people.

The iHeartRadio Music Awards will air live this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on Turner's TBS, TNT, and truTV. The awards will also air simultaneously on iHeartMedia stations nationwide and across the iHeartRadio digital music platform.

For the ninth year, Compass Media Networks will broadcast exclusive, national, audio coverage of the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament, beginning Wednesday, March 8 and concluding with the Championship game on Sunday, March 12.

The Executive Director of the musicFIRST Coalition blasted out an e-mail yesterday that took several shots at radio. As the NAB continues to add signatures to the Local Radio Freedom Act, Israel and musicFIRST are pushing Congress to mandate that radio pay artists directly in order to play their music. Here's our suggestion...

Wayne Jones is the VP of Sales for Cumulus in Baton Rouge. He oversees the sales operations for four radio stations and a team of 15 people, including AEs, sales managers, and sales assistants. He is also one of Radio Ink‘s Future African American Leaders in Radio and will be featured in our March 6 issue. Let's find out why. Here is our extended interview with Wayne

President Donald Trump and others have been bashing the news media lately, jumping on the currently popular phrase "fake news," after Facebook was hit with a slew of criticism for allowing fake news stories to build on the social media site. The NAB wants everyone to know its member stations can be trusted. Here's how...

On Wednesday the FCC issued a warning of sorts to all broadcasters hoping to take advantage of the recent FCC rule change that relaxes restrictions on the siting of FM translators rebroadcasting AM stations. That rule change was passed on February 23. Here's what the Media Bureau wants you to know.

(By Barry Cohen) Salespeople! You need to tell your clients that everything they love about the Internet (and social media), you have right in that little box with the speakers in it. You see, radio has always been a social medium. In fact, it was the original social medium.