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Keeping an eye on radio's largest advertising category, sales figures are in for the month of August, which show the pace of auto sales decelerated sharply. Retail sales have fallen in four of the past six months, after rising for 66 straight months.

Trey Radel is returning to the radio station (92.5 Fox News Radio) in Fort Myers where he hosted a show before winning a seat in Congress in 2012. Radel resigned in disgrace after trying to purchase cocaine from an undercover agent in Washington, DC.

(By Bob McCurdy) There was a terrific article in June 2016’s issue of the Journal of Advertising Research titled, “Assessing Ad-Spend Patterns to Predict Brand Health.” It would be worthwhile to not only be familiar with the author’s findings but to review them with clients.

(By Randy Lane) Great content comes from great planning. Just as the takeoff and landing are the two most crucial points in a flight, the same is true of all content segments.

(By Ronald Robinson) Dr. Fritz Perls, acknowledged as the daddy of Gestalt Therapy, often used the analogy of “peeling the onion” as a description for identifying and examining the human psyche and behaviors. Many in the psychological community still accept this to be a useful approach, as the structure of an onion is that of multiple layers. And so…

The nation's most popular sport begins its regular season this week and as usual Westwood One will have all the action. It’s the company’s 30th year as the exclusive network radio partner for the NFL. A total of 104 games will be broadcast by 500 stations nationwide.

iIt's called The BIG Legend at 98.3, according to Senior VP of Programming for iHeart Nashville and iHeartCountry’s Brand Manager Rod Phillips and it kicked off Friday commercial free.

In our continuing series on how to make money selling digital, we head south to the sunshine state. Georgia Beasley was promoted to digital sales director for Beasley Media Group’s Southwest Florida market back in February. Her background and experience make her the perfect person to turn to on day three of our series.

AdWeek has the details about the continuing rise in popularity of Podcasting stating 21% of Americans age 12 or older say they have listened to a podcast in the past month, a 17 percent increase in the last year and a 75 percent increase since 2013.

And, as a result, the New York State Broadcasters Association has filed an amicus brief with the NY State Court of Appeals in the Flo and Eddie vs. Sirius XM case. NYSBA President David Donovan says, “There is no right to a performance fee for recorded music under New York State Law.”