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The station will be called 97.3 PLAY and will feature a mix of today’s contemporary hits and classics from 2000 through today. The station starts off with 10,000 songs in a row.

The NAB Education Foundation announced Monday the 10 individuals selected to participate in the 2016 Technology Apprenticeship Program, which begins this month.

Nicky Sparrow is a past member of Radio Ink’s Future African American Leaders in Radio list. She was recently promoted by iHeartMedia to Jacksonville market presi­dent. We asked Sparrow to share the details on how she advanced her career and made it to the top.

Former CBS Radio CEO Dan Mason will be a keynote speaker at Radio Ink's 7th annual Hispanic Radio Conference next week in Fort Lauderdale. Mason has been one of radio's most respected executives for decades, and to hear him speak about Hispanic radio and programming in general is going to be very special for those who attend the conference.

(By Dan Franks) In last week’s Infinite Dial 2016 live webinar, Edison Research and Triton Digital joined forces to present their most recent study of consumer behaviors around media and technology in America. They had a special focus on the consumption of audio, which included a dedicated section on podcasts.

Ron Fried (pictured left) is a senior account manager with Connoisseur Media on Long Island, and one of his best accounts is TD Bank. It’s an account Fried has had for 11 years, and that’s due in large part to the relationship and trust he’s built with the bank’s vice president of marketing, Eric Fishon (pictured right).

He hopes he doesn't have to according to a story in Radaronline. Todd Clem (Bubba The Love Sponge) is not only the target of a Nielsen lawsuit for alleged ratings tampering, he's part of the Hulk Hogan $100 million Gawker lawsuit. And he does not want to testify in the Hogan case.

(By Ryan Wrecker) If traditional radio held the office of president, streaming would be the vice president, and podcasting would be the speaker of the house. Over the past decade we’ve started to move from a digital democracy to a more direct democracy.

In a company as big as Cumulus, you rarely hear the CEO single out one on-air employee, but that's exactly what Berner did when she detailed just how much the firing of Jack Diamond cost the company. That firing was undone as Berner explained.

Cumulus CEO Mary Berner has now been on the job for five months and she put her cards on the table yesterday, laying out her entire plan to turn around the company. Berner's had a chance to look under the hood in more detail and, as they say, the baby is ugly. However, Berner says given time, Cumulus has the assets to be one of the winners in the radio industry. Thursday afternoon, she detailed operational and cultural changes she hopes will steady the Cumulus ship. The big question is does she have enough time to execute her plan.