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It’s easy to get stuck in the mud in your social media if you don’t have a plan. Almost everyone in radio has some kind of active social media content plan…or something that started out like a plan. But when is the last time you reviewed it with your team and freshened it up together?

Here's a great example of why Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan believes the NextRadio app is a game-changer for the radio industry. NextRadio recently ran an 8-week promotion for a Disney contest called “Fly Away with Demi Lovato.” Here's how it worked...

Conservative talker Mark Belling has called Donald Trump a blowhard, buffoon, clown, fraud, and liberal. However, in his latest column, Belling says he will vote for Trump. "I don’t retract any of it. But more than half of life’s important choices are between bad options."

In combination, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) have joined forces are inviting the Democratic and Republican presumptive presidential nominees to take part in a "Conversation with Black America."

As we've been telling you over the past two days, a company that promotes online music produced a study that said Millennials were running away from radio into the arms of streamers. Cumulus/Westwood One Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard took a whack at that study and produced 21 slides that refute it. He used data from Nielsen, Edison Research, and the Advertising Research Foundation to create the slides.

98.7 Today’s Kiss, in partnership with City of Birmingham, will host the inaugural Silence the Violence Rally Saturday, from 11 a.m.-2p.m. Recent national events, as well as in Birmingham neighborhoods, have motivated 98.7 KISS-FM to rally the community together

Mason, Remy and Alabama from Chicago’s BIG 95.5 hosted a “Big Hero Tailgate” on Wednesday for 2,000 loyal listeners at the 17th Annual Chicago Finest vs. Chicago Bravest Charity Baseball Game at U.S. Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox.

After running our Wednesday story about the Music Biz survey and how Millennials are getting their music from streaming and not radio, we spoke to several radio executives to get their opinion. Here is why they object to the Music Biz research.

It was less than two months ago that Nielsen sent out a report on Millennials that stated in the average week, radio reaches 89% of "On Their Own Millennials." And that number rises to 92% among Millennials who are starting a family. Nielsen stated that, on average, radio reaches nine out of 10 Millennials each week.

Employees want a minimum of $17 an hour for off-air staff, and $30 an hour for on-air talent at the Cumulus sports station. SFGate.com reports Cumulus has countered with the San Francisco minimum wage of $13.00 per hour, according to union negotiators. The rally was held outside AT&T Park in San Francisco. None of KNBR's big name talent such as Gary Radnich, Tom Tolbert, and Murph & Mac were at the rally. Clearly those KNBR stars are making more than minimum wage.