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FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn called last Friday "take out the trash day." She was referring to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai's move to reverse decisions made by the previous FCC administration. She said the changes were made without a shred of explanation.

The Ford Motor Company ran over 22,000 commercials on radio stations all across the country last week, making it the fifth-largest advertiser in radio according to the latest Media Monitors chart. GEICO held on to the top spot airing 58,149 spots. Rounding out the top five were AutoZone with 30,429, ProFlowers with 26,961, and McDonald's with 26,204.

Crook and Charlie Chase will host the event, which will be held on the seminar’s opening day, Wednesday February 22. Five artists are set to perform at the Omni Hotel in Nashville at the party.

The agenda for the 42nd Conclave Summer Learning Conference is out. The focus this year includes revenue-generating fundamentals and effective practices, how the “rule-breakers” win at ratings, strategic ways to operate in the digital, social, and podcasting space with fewer resources, among other topics.

Entercom has submitted a public filing voluntarily turning in its license to operate Top 40 KDND (107.9 The End)/Sacramento, in order, the company said, “to facilitate the timely FCC approvals for the planned combination with CBS Radio.” But there is much more to this story.

New FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is undoing some of the last-minute regulations put in place by the Commission before he became chair. He's not happy with what was done and he's changing course. Here's what he had to say about what was done...

Media Action Center Director Sue Wilson said Entercom's relinquishing its KDND license is a huge victory for the public interest. However, she says, Entercom should not be looked at as the "good guy" in this case.

Beasley is selling 6 stations it owns in the Greenville-New Bern Jacksonville, North Carolina market. Beasley will make $11 million on the deal and use the money to pay down debt. Here are the details of the deal.

(By Ronald Robinson) Radio continues in its refusal to address the communication model it has held and protected, sometimes viciously, for decades. Radio has been unable to define, never mind successfully defend, the premises and dogma on which it has been running…forever.

(By Bob McCurdy)The latest USA TouchPoints data for 2016 (Jan ’16-Oct ’16) has just been published and it again confirms the popularity of AM/FM programming and the key role it should play in any media campaign.