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(By Jeff McHugh) Bloomburg Businessweek recently reported on how television stations are adding more hours of local news coverage to their daily schedule.The problem for TV is how to fill that airtime. Here's where you can jump in front of the camera, steal the spotlight, and create some effective marketing buzz for your show.

Still more fallout in Philadelphia over a fake caller that 97.5 The Fanatic host Mike Missanelli says he was unaware was the made-up "Dwayne from Swedesboro."

102.9 The Whale and The Talk of Connecticut (1360 WDRC, 1420 WMMW, 1240 WWCO, 610 WSNG) had a record-breaking radiothon, Thursday, raising $145,000 for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai was one of the two dissenting votes (see next story) in the FCC's Media Ownership Rules decision that was officially filed Thursday. Pai says that the Commission failed to reassess its media ownership regulations every four years and dispose of outdated rules, as instructed by Congress.

And Commissioner Michael O'Rielly lays the blame for keeping the Media Ownership Rules much like they've been since the 90s right at the feet of FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler.

It's no secret that the NAB was pushing for changes to be made to the Media Ownership Rules, so it should come as no surprise that the organization is pretty upset now that the FCC has made it official that there will be no changes.

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The Golden State Warriors and Entercom’s 95.7 The Game (KGMZ-FM) in San Francisco have inked a new multi-year deal making the station the new flagship of the Warriors. The Warriors flagship station for each of the last 32 seasons, and for 40 seasons overall since the team moved to the West Coast in 1962, had been KNBR 680 AM.

MediaPost has the details from Kantar Media about the upcoming holiday season. Kantar is predicting a gain of 3.8% in overall ad spend including a 16% increase in online spending and a 2% hike in brick-and-mortar shopping.

Fox 102.3 (WMFX) has entered into an agreement with the Carolina Panthers to be their new home in Columbia, SC. This will include full coverage of all games, plus pre-game and post-game shows, Panther’s Talk each Monday night at 7 p.m., as well as daily updates.