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It was a remarkable, record-setting effort by the Washington D.C. station. Its 13th annual Fisher House Radiothon, raised $491,064 December 3-4, broadcasting from the Fashion Center at Pentagon City. The Fisher House Foundation provides homes away from home for the families of injured servicemen and women while their partners are undergoing treatment and rehabilitation.

For years advertisers have been shifting their marketing dollars to digital and there is no indication that is slowing down. On Monday three companies made ad revenue growth predictions for the year ahead at the UBS Media Conference in New York and all three stated that digital will continue its explosive growth.

The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council has sent a letter to the new administration called "Twelve Imperatives to Close the Digital Divide and Advance Multicultural Media and Telecom Ownership and Procurement in the First 100 Days of the New Administration." Point number 12: Create a “Glide Path” for the Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Humane Decommissioning of the AM Band in a Manner that Preserves Minority Ownership.

That's the conclusion of the folks at consulting firm Paragon Media, ten years after the NAB commissioned the company to study millennials. In their latest blog post, Paragon says in the ten years that have gone by, what has not changed is radio's shocking lack of response to the wants and needs of younger listeners.

According to Zenith’s new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts out Monday, global advertising expenditure in social media will grow 72% between 2016 and 2019 (from $29 billion to $50 billion).

More from the new Zenith report (read it here) which says online video advertising is growing almost as quickly as social media, at 18% a year. Zenith predicts that by 2019 online video will total $35.4 billion across the world, edging out radio which Zenith pegs at $35 billion.

Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has again voiced his concern with Chairman Thomas Wheeler. Pai isn't too happy that Wheeler continues to move forward with his agenda, despite Congress' call "to avoid complex, partisan, or otherwise controversial items." Pai issued the following statement about what Wheeler is doing...

In his latest blog, Broadcast Attorney David Oxenford points out that the CRB published a notice in the Federal Register on Monday which stated that inflation has not gone up significantly, so that the per performance rates will not increase in 2017. That means the rates the CRB handed down in December 2015 will be the same for 2017. Read Oxenford's full explanation HERE.

Nationally-syndicated radio personality Delilah will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Delilah was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame back on November 17. Her show is heard by more than eight million weekly listeners on over 160 stations across the country. She is the most-listened-to woman on radio in the United States.

The Missouri Broadcasters Association is teaming up with Hubbard Radio, Eagle Communications, Emmis, Zimmer Radio Group, iHeartMedia, and Midwest Family to bring the 10-day radio immersion program to Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, July 31 through August 9, 2017.