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The name of his show per the radio station's website is called The Extravaganza. Over the weekend, the morning man, and one-time town supervisor of Massena, New York, was arrested and charged with cocaine possession.

Beasley Media CFO Caroline Beasley told investors Friday that of the seven markets Beasley reports to Miller Kaplan, Charlotte and Las Vegas were the biggest underperformers.

Back on February 1, we reported that NJ Broadcasting, owned by Dr. Shukla, a pediatric physician who owns 7 Days Pediatrics, located in Edison, New Jersey, was buying WWRL from Access1 Communications. We now know the price of that sale -- $7 milion.

The Alice 105.9 Cares for Kids radiothon raised $1.3 million for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals which benefit Children’s Hospital Colorado.

CBS Corporation reported strong revenue growth in Q4 of 2015. Profits fell by 37% because the company took a big charge to write down the value of some of its radio stations, "to reduce the carrying value of radio FCC licenses to their fair value." Revenue at CBS' radio stations was down 5% in Q4, blamed on "continued softness in the radio advertising marketplace and lower political advertising."

Fortune Magazine and The New York Times say yes. And Fortune goes so far as to say, "The money-losing music service has put itself on the block," and calls it nothing more than a fire sale. The Times reports Pandora has taken the step to hire Morgan Stanley to shop the company around. Fortune says that with Pandora losing about $10 million every month, "it’s difficult to see who would see such a deal as attractive."

CEO Brian McAndrews says Pandora will achieve that goal within five years. In 2015, Pandora took in $1.164 billion in revenue. Here's the plan McAndrews laid out which gives him the confidence his company can hit that $4 billion number by 2021.

The streaming pure-play ended the fourth quarter of 2015 with revenue of $336.2 million. Excluding revenue from ticketing services, revenue was $326.0 million, an increase of 22% compared to $268 million in total revenue for the same quarter last year. Advertising revenue increased 22% in the fourth quarter of 2015 to $269.0 million, compared to $220.1 million in 2014.

It's a number they've never really been able to prove, or that any analyst covering the company has ever challenged them on, but Pandora now claims to be "at an all-time high of more than 10% share of U.S. radio listening."