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It happened to WNRI in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, according to CBS Boston. 29-year-old Thomas Hill drove through the wall and an office of WNRI-AM early Wednesday morning. He was charged with OUI and possession of narcotics. CBS Boston reports that the station was able to stay on the air and nobody in the building was hurt. Picture courtesy CBS Boston.

RCS and Marketron are forming a partnership that will allow deeper integration into Marketron’s open workflow platform Mediascape. In a joint press release the two companies said, "This new interface will allow real time reconciliation and substitution of any advertising content on a broadcast station." Right now nearly 50% of Marketron’s customers use an RCS automation product.

Hubbard Radio's WFED 1500 AM (Federal News Radio) is the new flagship home for the Capitals and Wizards radio networks starting this season. Both teams were heard on CBS Radio’s 106.7 The Fan.

It's all powered by Alexa, Amazon's female technology voice that executes your commands through a cylindrical speaker called Echo you set anywhere in your home. If you have one, you already know how easy it is to use the device and how much music was already available for free before Thursday's announcement of Amazon Music Unlimited, an on-demand music service with a catalog of tens of millions of songs and thousands of hand-curated playlists.

In early September, Chase Lightfoot, a 17-year-old lineman from Alvin Shadow Creek high school in Houston, collapsed and died during a game. That stirred Houston radio station Sports Radio 610 and former NFL star Earl Campbell into action and here's what they did...

The station will present It’s a Wonderful Life as its 2016 “Holiday Radio Show.” The show is set for Tuesday, November 29 at Turner Hall in Milwaukee, beginning at 6:30 p.m.  It will be recorded in front of a live studio audience and replayed on-air throughout the Christmas Season.

The BMI Foundation has announced the opening of the second annual BMI Founders Award for Radio Broadcasting scholarship competition. Open to broadcasting students nationwide, the program will award up to $5,000 for the best original essay response entry.

Long-time WTMJ conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes recently announced he was retiring from radio. The 62-year old has hosted mid-mornings on WTMJ for 23 years and has been one of the most listened-to talk show hosts in the Midwest. Over the years Sykes established himself as one of the most credible conservative hosts in the Milwaukee and surrounding areas, and as a result he has a lot of sway with listeners and elected officials. We spoke to Sykes about the Presidential election and the impact it will have on talk radio once all the votes have been counted. He believes Donald Trump will lose big in November, and the Trump phenomenon will lead to a day of reckoning for conservative talkers.

We've all seen the viral videos by now. Kids watching their parents completely passed out, near death after overdosing on heroin. The NAB recently launched a national campaign to get broadcasters more involved in addressing the heroin and prescription drug abuse that’s impacting communities across America. Later this month, WBTN-AM in Bennington, Vermont is launching a four-part series called Grip of Addiction.

Speaking before the Kansas Association of Broadcasters this week, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said the Commission's decision to retain the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule was a "profound mistake."