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(by Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads) This is an industry littered with programming stories, but few have had the impact of Top 40, and it has been the basis of the music part of the radio industry for decades now. Todd Storz was taking a giant chance with his father’s radio station. He could have killed the golden goose that paid for his college tuition. Instead the move bolstered Storz Broadcasting.

KHOU-TV is reporting that country station KXAX in Livingston was hacked and broadcast a sexually explicit Podcast for four early morning hours one day this week. The Podcast, called Furcast is an adult program produced out in New York.

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation will present WABC's Joan Hamburg with the Gracies Lifetime Achievement Award at its 41st Annual Awards Luncheon June 21st in New York City. The Gracies recognize exemplary programming created by women, for women and about women in all facets of media.

iHeartMedia has shared the latest social media engagement data it compiled from the April 3 iHeartRadio Music Awards. The company says the event generated 115 billion social media impressions in the United States throughout the promotional period of the show.

Benztown has partnered with technology company ENCO to launch an automation system that is fully integrated with Benztown’s 13 production and imaging libraries.

GatesAir plans to augment its 2016 NAB Show exhibition presence with a series of educational presentations, and its second annual GatesAir Connect NAB customer event. The efforts will focus on education and interactive discussions involving the current and future over-the-air broadcast landscape, covering both business- and technology-related topics.

Arena football team the Philadelphia Soul announced that all remaining 2016 games will be broadcast live on 97.5 The Fanatic. Broadcasts will also include many special guests, including Soul owners Ron Jaworski, Dick Vermeil, Marques Colston, Jahri Evans, and many other current and former NFL stars.

On Wednesday, iHeartMedia and a group of its bondholders involved in litigation in the State District Court in Bexar County, Texas, agreed to extend the existing temporary restraining order until a May 16 trial. Here was iHeartMedia's reaction to that ruling...

Bloomberg reports iHeartMedia debtholder Bluejay Securities, an affiliate of Elliott Management Corp., is one of the debtholders challenging iHeart's transfer of 100,000 shares of Clear Channel Outdoor to Broader Media. iHeart alleges, according to Bloomerg, that Bluejay would "reap a financial windfall" if creditors can push iHeart into default because it bought short-term credit default swaps.

iHeartMedia's Thea Mitchem is kicking you-know-what and taking names in a world dominated by men: programming radio stations. Mitchem is iHeart's Executive Vice President of Programming for the Northeast Division, and Program Director for the influential Power 105.1 in New York City. She's been in radio for 21 years, programming for 15. Mitchem will appear on Radio Ink's 2016 Best Program Directors in America list, which comes out on May 9.