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Taking our early month look at radio's biggest ad category, we find out that September U.S. auto sales are forecast to fall about 1% from a year ago. Forbes is reporting that new vehicle sales will be 1.43 million. This would be the fifth month in the past seven to show a retail sales decline. A year ago, sales hit a record high of nearly 17.5 million vehicles.

On Friday iHeartMedia in St. Louis made the change to 100.3 The Beat, which is now the home of STL’s new Hip Hop and R&B music. The station also picked up the syndicated morning she The Breakfast Club.

Earls Family Broadcasting in Arkansas has added a new radio station to its lineup. On Saturday, October 1, the new 98.1 FM, all-Christmas went on the air. Dubbed Branson’s Classic Christmas, the station will air Christmas music 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through December 25.

On Thursday, The FCC adopted rules to extend to broadcast licensees the same streamlined rules and procedures that wireless carriers use for having foreign ownership approved.

(by John Garziglia) The FCC in a just-adopted decision made it easier for a foreign investor to own a part of, or all of, a US broadcast station. Here is how, as a practical matter, the FCC decision is likely to affect radio station ownership and, through expanded investment opportunities, possibly increase station values.

(By Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti) Last week, I had the honor of presenting the 24th Radio Wayne Awards at the Radio Show in Nashville. It was both an inspiring and humbling opportunity and a role I recently assumed as part of my duties as Radio Ink’s publisher.

If you answered yes to that question, click on and save THIS PAGE, on the Radioink.com website. It contains in-depth interviews with many of the 2016 Radio Wayne award finalists. All of them provide a blueprint to success in all management categories at a radio station. These are the people chosen as THE BEST among the thousands and thousand of sales and management executives working in the radio industry today.

SI's Richard Deitsch first reported the story that ESPN was considering splitting up the radio morning duo, after 18 years together. We reached out to ESPN to see if the report was true. Here's what we found out...

That's according to The New York Daily News which reported that the WFAN afternoon host announced Thursday that his final show will be December 15, 2017.

The city is experiencing unprecedented growth in business and infrastructure, and WTMJ Radio, in conjunction with the Milwaukee Business Journal, is covering it. Beginning October 3, the station will present an in-depth news series to cover Southeastern Wisconsin’s growth.