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(By Ryan Wrecker) Some of the best stations in the country are still formulating their digital plans. Radio has a lot of assets, but has even more questions on how to use them properly.

(By Loyd Ford) If you’re not passionately involved outside of your radio station with local listeners, you are probably making a mistake if you want to remain in a public-content profession such as broadcasting. So, in your social media, you have to think about what your company wants.

No more printing 35,000 weekly copies of the magazine Cumulus purchased in 2014. The company says it's still committed to NASH and will now use the money being lost printing the magazine into other NASH branded products.

The NAB Show is set to feature several sessions on drone technology next week in Las Vegas. On Wednesday the NAB will host a Super Session called “Drones: Opening New Vistas to Content." The big show kicks off Sunday and runs through Thursday.

WWLS in Oklahoma City will host the Bob Barry Inaugural Memorial Golf Classic Monday, August 8. The event will honor the late Bob Barry, the longtime Oklahoma City sportscaster and WWLS morning show personality who passed away last June. Barry hosted mornings on WWLS with former Oklahoma State University football coach Pat Jones. Barry died in a motorcycle accident. He was 58.

Thirteen current and former NFL players are participating in the fourth annual NFL Sports Journalism and Radio Boot Camp at Bowling Green State University that runs through the 17th.

Thanks to our friends at BIA/Kelsey who helped us take a look back at how radio revenue has grown since 1996. We used the top ten billing radio stations in the country, a list BIA/Kelsey releases every March. Several stations, that were powerhouses years ago, are long gone from the list, while others, like WFAN, the first-ever sports talk radio station in America, continue to churn out the revenue.

As promised, Dan Sileo, Morning Man on The Mighty 1090 in San Diego, asked CBS CEO Les Moonves why the company was getting out of radio, especially, Sileo said, when CBS was built on radio. Moonves agreed that the company was started and grew from the vision of William S. Paley who began it all in radio. Here's what Moonves told Sileo about the future of CBS Radio.

Sitting beside Shaq and Adam Carolla, PodcastOne CEO Norm Pattiz tells Forbes media writer Zack O'Malley Greenburg that even though podcasting was only a $34 million business when he got into it, he expects another zero will be added to that in short order. And Pattiz believes he can turn PodcastOne into a national juggernaut much like he did with Westwood One.

Normally, the NAB and RAB announce the city for the following year's show at the tail end of the current year's show. This year the word is out early. The 2017 Radio Show, produced by both organizations, will be held in Austin September 6-9. The 2016 show is being held September 21-23 at the Omni Hotel in Nashville. Picture courtesy Bloomberg.com.