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(By Wayne Ens) Remember when a mouse was a furry little creature and Spam came in a can? Words and meanings do change over time. It is imperative for credible radio marketing executives to understand the evolving meanings and strategies for words like branding, promotion, advertising, and marketing.

(By Matt Sunshine) If you’re in sales, you know it’s extremely important to close deals, right? That’s kind of an easy question, but I ask it because it seems as though many salespeople think their job is to have a lot of business in “pending.” When I ask salespeople how things are going, what I typically hear is, “I got a lot out there.”

(By Ryan Wrecker) When Nielsen released its annual study of media consumption, it confirmed that music is still a major factor in our content consumption: The study found that 91 percent of the population listens to music each week. One of the biggest positive listening trends was in the digital realm, with 75 percent of people listening to music online during the week.

The name of his show per the radio station's website is called The Extravaganza. Over the weekend, the morning man, and one-time town supervisor of Massena, New York, was arrested and charged with cocaine possession.

Beasley Media CFO Caroline Beasley told investors Friday that of the seven markets Beasley reports to Miller Kaplan, Charlotte and Las Vegas were the biggest underperformers.

Back on February 1, we reported that NJ Broadcasting, owned by Dr. Shukla, a pediatric physician who owns 7 Days Pediatrics, located in Edison, New Jersey, was buying WWRL from Access1 Communications. We now know the price of that sale -- $7 milion.

The Alice 105.9 Cares for Kids radiothon raised $1.3 million for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals which benefit Children’s Hospital Colorado.

CBS Corporation reported strong revenue growth in Q4 of 2015. Profits fell by 37% because the company took a big charge to write down the value of some of its radio stations, "to reduce the carrying value of radio FCC licenses to their fair value." Revenue at CBS' radio stations was down 5% in Q4, blamed on "continued softness in the radio advertising marketplace and lower political advertising."

Fortune Magazine and The New York Times say yes. And Fortune goes so far as to say, "The money-losing music service has put itself on the block," and calls it nothing more than a fire sale. The Times reports Pandora has taken the step to hire Morgan Stanley to shop the company around. Fortune says that with Pandora losing about $10 million every month, "it’s difficult to see who would see such a deal as attractive."