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Elroy Smith will occupy a newly created position of Operations Manager and PD for KBLX-FM and KRBQ-FM as part of an Entercom reorganization in that market. Stacy Cunningham and Trevor Simpson are out as a result of the change.

Broadcast attorney David Oxenford brilliantly details the impact the pre-1972 sound recordings issue might have on broadcasters. The issue is back after the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit deferred its consideration of an appeal of a District Court’s decision that New York law included a public performance right for pre-1972 sound recordings.

(By Matt Sunshine) Allow me to describe a scenario that many salespeople find themselves in every day where I find sellers can get easily trapped. The client or prospect asks a simple question like, “Why should I buy your product or service?”

(By Ryan Wrecker) Some of the best stations in the country are still formulating their digital plans. Radio has a lot of assets, but has even more questions on how to use them properly.

(By Loyd Ford) If you’re not passionately involved outside of your radio station with local listeners, you are probably making a mistake if you want to remain in a public-content profession such as broadcasting. So, in your social media, you have to think about what your company wants.

No more printing 35,000 weekly copies of the magazine Cumulus purchased in 2014. The company says it's still committed to NASH and will now use the money being lost printing the magazine into other NASH branded products.

The NAB Show is set to feature several sessions on drone technology next week in Las Vegas. On Wednesday the NAB will host a Super Session called “Drones: Opening New Vistas to Content." The big show kicks off Sunday and runs through Thursday.

WWLS in Oklahoma City will host the Bob Barry Inaugural Memorial Golf Classic Monday, August 8. The event will honor the late Bob Barry, the longtime Oklahoma City sportscaster and WWLS morning show personality who passed away last June. Barry hosted mornings on WWLS with former Oklahoma State University football coach Pat Jones. Barry died in a motorcycle accident. He was 58.

Thirteen current and former NFL players are participating in the fourth annual NFL Sports Journalism and Radio Boot Camp at Bowling Green State University that runs through the 17th.

Thanks to our friends at BIA/Kelsey who helped us take a look back at how radio revenue has grown since 1996. We used the top ten billing radio stations in the country, a list BIA/Kelsey releases every March. Several stations, that were powerhouses years ago, are long gone from the list, while others, like WFAN, the first-ever sports talk radio station in America, continue to churn out the revenue.