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Scholarship winners for this year’s Rising Through the Ranks seminar presented by the Radio Advertising Bureau, BMI, and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio group have been chosen. The 20 recipients will attend this year’s seminar August 24-25 at the BMI Nashville office.

Burger King had a big week of spending ad dollars on radio, according to Media Monitors. Last week the burger chain ran 29,366 commercials on radio stations all across the country, good for third on the Media Monitors chart.

The benefit is to support the police officers of Portland and southwest Washington. Called 98.7 The Bull Evening for Law Enforcement, the benefit will be held at the Skype Live Studio on July 21, and feature a performance from this year’s American Idol winner, Trent Harmon, along with several other surprise celebrity cameos.

The University of Houston has closed on the sale of KUHA-FM in Houston, which is a 50,000 watter in the nation's sixth largest market. The KSBJ Educational Foundation is picking up the station for $10 million.

Former WHNN Saginaw hosts Johnny Burke and Blondie are allowed to keep their online show after a federal judge ruled in their case. U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington said the internet show the two former Cumulus employees are now hosting is not a radio station, as defined by their non-competes, and the show can continue. There were a few stipulations though.

It's the 4th annual Radio Talent Institute at Western Kentucky University. 35 broadcasters begin ten days of preparing young talent who want a career in radio.

It's a new six-year deal between The NFL's Baltimore Ravens and Hearst-owned WBAL News Radio 1090 AM and 98 Rock (WIYY 97.9). The stations will remain the flagship home of the Ravens through 2022. A relationship that started back in 2006.

iHeartmedia Houston will be the official radio partner for The University of Texas football and men’s basketball programs. UT football and men’s basketball games will broadcast on Sportstalk 790 AM with select games broadcast on Newsradio 740 KTRH and KPRC AM 950.

New Mexico State University Athletics has a new radio flagship, thanks to an agreement with Learfield’s NM State Sports Properties. Bravo Mic Communications’ KXPZ-FM 99.5, "Zia Country," will carry the Aggies’ football and men’s basketball games, and coaches’ shows, through 2021.

The New York City talk radio station will broadcast live from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, respectively. The Republican Convention begins today at the Quicken Loans Arena and the Democratic Convention will be held at the Wells Fargo Center, July 25-28, 2016.