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One day on the air, and a food bank's shelves are restocked. Fresno's NewsTalk 580/105.9 and local agriculture company Gar Inc. teamed up again for the Central California Food Bank, with listeners and sponsors turning a day-long broadcast into relief for San Joaquin Valley families.

Reaching more voters, not the same voters again, is the puzzle facing political advertisers this fall. Audacy's answer, laid out in a new interview with Campaigns & Elections, starts in the car, where economic worry and radio listening overlap every day during the commute.

NAB is pitching its New York show as a guide for stations juggling shifting technology and business models. AI, audience growth, streaming, and new revenue sources headline a lineup that NAB's April Carty-Sipp says has something for every broadcaster.

With newspaper closings rising, TV newsrooms consolidating, and local creators scarce, a sweeping new report sketches local news as thinning out in the places where it may be needed the most. Will hometown radio and its digital products be there to fill the gaps?

Three Audacy stations turned the generosity of Las Vegas listeners into a food bank haul ahead of the holidays. Personalities from Mix 94.1 (KMXB), 98.5 KLUC, and Q100.5 (KXQQ) spent weekends collecting cash for Southern Nevada families facing food insecurity.

Native-produced radio is getting a new pipeline into the public media system. With help from Public Media Infrastructure, PRX is taking on broadcast distribution for Native Voice One, whose weekly series reaches tribal, rural, and urban stations across the US.

The first coast-to-coast EAS test in three years is approaching, and FEMA wants stations walking in prepared. A pair of live webinars from FEMA's IPAWS Division, scheduled for this week and the next, will cover the planning side of the exercise.

(Paige Nienaber) If you have not begun to puke Halloween all over your audience, you’re on the cusp of being irrelevant. Obviously, “how” you acknowledge Halloween is determined by your resources. 93Q in Syracuse is a Content Monster.

Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio's Digital Sales Mentorship Program is back for a third year, offering one woman in radio or digital media sales monthly coaching from an industry leader on streaming, podcasting, analytics, and sales leadership.

Civic Media is on a roll. The Wisconsin-based public benefit corporation is at the center of the acquisition of a large slate of Iowa and Illinois stations from three separate sellers, its second Iowa move in less than a month, pending FCC approval of the sale.