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The station is WETN-FM in Wheaton, Illinois, which broker Greg Guy at Patrick Communications tells us is part of the Chicago market. The trustees of Wheaton College are selling the station to Educational Media Foundation for $150,000. The station will flip to EMF's Air1 format upon closing early next year.

670-AM The Score play-by-play analyst Pat Hughes has released a CD reliving the radio story of the 2016 World Champion Cubs as the games were heard on the station.

Another year is coming to an end and Westwood One News has produced two long-form year-in-review programs for stations. They are: The Year in Review – The Big Stories and The Year in Review – People, Sports and Entertainment. Westwood One News will also provide a series of Year in Review reports for unlimited use by affiliates from December 22, 2016 through January 2, 2017.

Need a little more holiday cheer on your Country station? Envision Networks is offering up its free Country Oldies Christmas Special starting next week. Host Steve Warren teams up with Whisperin’ Bill Anderson for the holiday edition of The Country Oldies Show which is distributed commercial-free, but available for stations’ to sell to local advertisers.

Premiere Networks is offering a four-hour, commercial-free Christmas special hosted by Cody Alan. Available to air anytime from December 23-25, 2016, Cody Alan’s Christmas Special will feature some of the biggest Country artists, along with Christmas music. Interested stations should contact Premiere Networks’ Affiliate Relations department at 818-377-5300.

An incredible 1.3 million pounds (over 683 tons) of non-perishable food items were collected during Preston & Steve's Camp Out for Hunger this year. It's the largest collection in the 19 years the event has been held.

The 28th Annual Radiothon to End Child Abuse, held December 1 and 2 on “Bemidji’s Big Three Music Stations” KB101, KZY 95.5, and Z99, raised $34,287. The 24-hour “Education, Action and Auction” event supports programs in the Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, and Hubbard Counties of northern Minnesota and has raised a total of $1,083,218 since its inception in 1989.

It was a remarkable, record-setting effort by the Washington D.C. station. Its 13th annual Fisher House Radiothon, raised $491,064 December 3-4, broadcasting from the Fashion Center at Pentagon City. The Fisher House Foundation provides homes away from home for the families of injured servicemen and women while their partners are undergoing treatment and rehabilitation.

For years advertisers have been shifting their marketing dollars to digital and there is no indication that is slowing down. On Monday three companies made ad revenue growth predictions for the year ahead at the UBS Media Conference in New York and all three stated that digital will continue its explosive growth.

That's the conclusion of the folks at consulting firm Paragon Media, ten years after the NAB commissioned the company to study millennials. In their latest blog post, Paragon says in the ten years that have gone by, what has not changed is radio's shocking lack of response to the wants and needs of younger listeners.