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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.

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.