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The Maney, Roy and LauRen Morning Show on Beasley’s Top 40 WNKS in Charlotte hosted a marathon broadcast on May 12. Beginning at 6 a.m., the jocks vowed to stay on the air until they raised $51,000 for Levine Children’s Hospital.

(by Editor-in-Chief Ed Ryan) So many of us can remember getting that Chickenman cassette in the mail and playing it over and over as soon as it arrived. The creation of one of radio's most brilliant minds, turns 50 this year. Dick Orkin was born in Williamsport, PA, in 1933, and by age 16, he was ready to tackle radio.

This goes back to a story we reported on March 25. Cumulus filed a lawsuit against Amanda Rollen and Hoosier AM/FM, which operates five radio stations in Marion and four in Kokomo.

On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced ASCAP agreed to pay $1.75 million and reform some of its policies to settle allegations ASCAP violated a court-ordered consent decree designed to prevent anticompetitive effects arising from its collective licensing of music performance rights.

Program directors have enormous responsibilities these days. They must produce the best content in all of audio, because the competition for ears has never been greater. They have to find and teach and massage new local talent. And they surely must help produce a product the sales department can successfully sell so that fire-breathing GM can be calm, cool, and collected while sending that nice big piece of the cash-flow action back to corporate.

(By Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads) Big things happen when you least expect them. It was the summer of 1974, I had been fired from Y100, and I was living with my parents. One day my friends Charlie Willer (the man who got me into radio) and John Garrett decided to take a road trip to Chicago from Fort Wayne. Our goal was to meet the famous voice behind The Secret Adventures of the Tooth Fairy and Chickenman.

(By Gabriel Barnes) When looking to pinpoint an audience based on geography, the terms "geo-fencing" or "geo-targeting" are often used. These terms are often incorrectly used interchangeably, creating confusion, so let’s clarify what they mean.

Billboard writer Tom Roland worked his way into John Shomby's new office in Nashville for an up close and personal interview with the Nash Network's new director of programming. Shomby took the job with Cumulus after spending 13 years as Dave Paulus' right hand man with Max Media in Norfolk-Virginia Beach, where he was director of programming for five stations. Shomby tells Roland, “It’s a brand-new Cumulus. It really focuses on the people, and that’s a real important draw for me.” Check out the full profile on Shomby HERE.