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The Courier-Journal has the details about a PR firm sueing ESPN 93.9 hosts John Ramsey and Mike Rutherford. The firm is called RunSwitch and its run by Scott Jennings who says the hosts falsely identified him as the source of leaked information that the University of Louisville was about to ban itself from postseason play because of a sex scandal involving its basketball team.

iHeartMedia plans to move Los Angeles Hip Hop morning man Big Boy into additional markets. Premiere Networks will now syndicate Big Boy’s Neighborhood which will continue to originate from iHeartMedia’s Real 92.3 in Los Angeles. The show will be made available to Urban Contemporary and CHR Rhythmic stations from 5 a.m. - 7 p.m. local time on weekdays and weekends.

Gospel station WLIB 1190 AM, hosted its 9th annual radiothon in support of St. Jude Children’s Hospital, raising more than $121,000. During the two-day radio-thon, WLIB and on-air hosts Bishop Hezekiah Walker and Neicy Tribbet, from Afternoon Praise, Yolanda Adams and Liz Black broadcast live from the New York studios.

Gus Garcia is a 27-year-old marketing executive for Alpha Media in West Palm Beach. He's only been in radio for two years and he's piling on success stories using digital strategies that didn't even exist a few years ago.

Jose Dante Parra is the CEO of Prospero Latino. He's a Democratic strategist and was a senior advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. As the opening keynote speaker at the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference, Tuesday, Para told attendees political candidates need to use radio and, he said, the R.O.I. candidates get from radio is huge. He said radio is what helped get Senator Harry Reid re-elected in Nevada. We spoke to Para after his keynote about what radio needs to do to get more political advertising revenue. WATCH HERE.

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.