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Popular singer, songwriter, and actor Jencarlos Canela stopped by the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference on Tuesday to heap praise on the radio industry and program directors. Canela, who recently played Jesus Christ on Fox's original live musical The Passion, said his dream was to hear his song played on the radio. "It's every artist's dream. The first time I heard my song I cried. It was an incredible moment." Canela credited his popularity to radio having faith in new artists, setting trends, and being willing to take risks.

Radio Ink is proud to present the winners of the 2016 Medallas de Cortez Awards. The awards are named in honor of Raoul Cortez, who founded KCOR, the first Spanish-language station in the United States, in 1946. The awards ere handed out Tuesday night at the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference in Ft. Lauderdale.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler went before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, Tuesday, as part of an FCC oversight hearing. The only radio issue Wheeler spoke about was pirate radio enforcement.

The 2015 iHeartRadio Music Festival has been awarded the winner of the Eighth Annual Shorty Award for The Best of Social Media at a Live Event. In addition, iHeartMedia's social engagement for the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards earned a Gold distinction as a finalist in the Shorty Awards Live Events category. The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media usage and activation across the Web.

(By Wayne Ens) Most sales trainers will talk about the importance of reaching “the decisionmaker.” Some even talk about the futility of talking with those who only have the power to say no, but need to get approval from someone else to say yes. I’m going to suggest that seldom, if ever, is there a single “decisionmaker” today.

The RIIA reports the music industry continued its transition to digital diversifying its revenue stream. Revenues in 2015 were up 0.9% to $7.0 billion. The continued growth of revenues from streaming services offset declines in sales of digital downloads and physical product

Media Ecologist Jack Myers says marketers invested $5.7 billion in Hispanic media in 2015 which was down 6.6% from 2014. However, Myers says in 2016 spending will rebound nicely. The MyersBizNet Hispanic media report projects marketers will increase spending 7.9% in 2016.

According to Media Monitors, from March 11 to March 20, Bernie Sanders For President aired 7,936 spots and the National Nurses United Patient Protection added 995 spots bringing Sanders' radio total to 8,931 spots. Hillary Clinton ran 4,536 spots, while her PAC Priorities USA Action bought 1,821 giving Clinton a total of 6,357 spots putting her at #2. Then it was the Republicans, who were very far behind.

GEICO (40,880) ran more than eight thousand more commercials on the radio than second place Burrger King (32,551), according to the latest Media Monitiors weekly chart. AutoZone was third (30,663), followed by McDonald's (26,883) and The Home Depot (22,674) rounding out the top five. Subway was the biggest chart mover last week jumping from 17th to 9th, airing 17,669 commercials

Bridge Ratings says it has been tracking the growth of Pandora since 2006 and in 2010 Bridge published an analysis of consumer use of Pandora. That analysis was updated for the past four years. Here are the results from the latest findings from Bridge.