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The 7th-, 8th-, and 9th-place advertisers on the Media Monitors list two weeks ago, became the 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-biggest advertisers on radio last week.

Hubbard's WTMX-FM in Chicago is celebrating its 17th year of raising money for the children and families at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The station raises money for the hospital all week during a radiothon.

It's the fourth annual We Can Survive concert in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month for CBS Radio. The event will be held Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The artist lineup includes Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, Charlie Puth, G-Eazy, Meghan Trainor, OneRepublic, and Pitbull.

CBS Radio-owned US99 in Chicago will present the second annual Stars and Strings, an acoustic concert celebrating our nation’s military heroes and their families. Jason Aldean will headline the show.

The New York Times is reporting that both Amazon and Pandora will introduce their new $5.00 per month streaming plans perhaps as early as this week

On Tuesday, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids will hold a press conference to announce a national campaign to address the opioid epidemic in the United States.

Cumulus executives have hinted that a reverse stock split was a possibility and now they are taking the steps to make an 8-for-1 reverse stock split happen. A shareholder meeting is being set up to vote on approving the reverse stock split and the SEC has been notified with this filing

(By Jeff McHugh) In about 10 days, I will be on a panel at the NAB/RAB Radio Show in Nashville that includes Pierre Bouvard of Cumulus, Carol Edwards of Nielsen, and Stacy Lynn Schulman of Katz Media Group. The panel is titled “Perception Vs. Reality,” and addresses how radio can get more respect and revenue from advertisers.

(By Bob McCurdy) Over the past several weeks, a couple of clients hit us with three firmly held and confidently stated opinions that reconfirmed that “projection bias” continues to play a major role in the media selection process. We were glad we were there to begin to address this.

(By Ronald Robinson) Any broadcaster, unwilling to agree the general condition of radio’s locally produced advertising creative is remorsefully inadequate, has not been, or refuses to, pay attention to their products – the spots. That commercials have the impact they often do is, to my mind, a startling representation of (mostly) one thing: The innate “power” of radio.