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(By Pat Bryson) Just before COVID hit and made my passport irrelevant, I was attending a Radio Days Europe conference in Vienna. One of the many radio friends I've met doing my job (I SO like that about what I do), is a programmer for a radio station in Iceland.

(Buzz Knight) I worry that the leadership of today, specifically in media and radio, applies a “set it and forget it” approach to much of their work. When it comes to principles of leadership, this is dead wrong. Leadership is an ever-evolving centerpiece.

Iconic Rock personality Matt Pinfield is on the path to recovery - and a return to radio - after an intense health scare to start the year. The SoCal Sound and KLOS host and former MTV VJ suffered a stroke in January, leading to two months of unresponsiveness.

Friends of Georgia Radio will induct five Georgia Radio Legends in its inaugural class of 2022. Nominations began June 20th and must come from Friends of Georgia Radio members. The deadline to submit is July 14th.

WMYX Milwaukee morning show co-host Elizabeth Kay is recovering after donating a kidney to her mother-in-law. Tuesday night Kay updated listeners on her recovery. She posted to Facebook that naps were her savior now, and her mother-in-law is doing amazingly well. Read more about her life-saving event HERE.

Another station has flipped for the holidays. This time it’s iHeart’s KISC-FM/Spokane (KISS 98.1). As of Friday, the station will broadcast around-the-clock Christmas music

As Florida continues to clean up following Hurricane Irma, Nielsen has told clients in Miami-Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach it will not release data for week four of September, which is when the storm hit.

Los Angeles County has agreed to a $700,000 settlement with NPR affiliate LAist (KPCC) radio reporter Josie Huang following an incident where she was arrested while reporting on a protest in 2020 following George Floyd's death.

Imaging company Benztown has launched Radio Merch Shop, a service that creates and operates customized “pop-up” online stores for radio stations, where station listeners can buy station-branded products.

(By John Garziglia) In a fact pattern worthy of a law school exam question, an IRS employee calls the Howard Stern Show and is put on hold. The IRS employee on a different line takes a call from a taxpayer while on hold with Howard. The Stern Show picks up, hears the IRS employee talking with the taxpayer and puts the conversation on the air live. The law school question is … in how many ways might the Howard Stern Show be civilly and criminally liable?