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Mary Lucia is the host for Minnesota Public Radio’s Triple A music station The Current. She began receiving phone calls and packages at work containing items like raw meat and a photo of a masked man, after responding to an email Patrick Kelly sent her about his dog dying.

The NAB is now accepting entries for the 2016 NAB Crystal Radio Awards. Since 1987 The Crystal's have been honoring stations that perform outstanding community service. 50 finalists are chosen and there are 10 winners. Entry submissions must be received by January 29. Winners are announced at the NAB Show Radio Luncheon, held Tuesday, April 19 in Las Vegas.

On Tuesday, SiriusXM announced it ended 2015 with 29.6 million subscribers. That's 2.3 million more subscribers than the company finished with at the end of 2014. The company had projected 2 million new subs.

This year’s class of Country Radio Hall of Fame inductees are Blair Garner, Mike & Dana Schuff (pictured), and Lisa Dent in the On-Air category, and Mick Anselmo, Kerby Confer, Jack Reno, Tim Roberts and Jim Slone in the Radio category. Luke Bryan will be on-hand to recognize the inductees during the CRS 2016 opening ceremonies

We're used to quietly hearing about a settlement between Nielsen and radio companies when a lawsuit is filed and radio's "currency" has been challenged. Not in the case against Bubba The Love Sponge.

CES is about to begin in Las Vegas and Greater Media's Buzz Knight is there to cover the show for Radio Ink. Buzz recently interviewed Consumer Technology Association CEO Gary Shapiro who said Nine automakers and more than 115 automotive tech companies will be exhibiting across 200,000 square feet of space this year, that's a 25 percent increase over last year. As for in-vehicle communications, they’re making cars safer and drivers more connected. Exhibitors at CES 2016 will unveil a complete, immersive infotainment experience for the car, with advancements in active window displays, access notifications, navigation systems, and a whole lot more. Here's Buzz's interview with Shapiro.

Ronald Unkefer at First Ventures tells Radio Ink his second auction for FM translators at FMTranslatorAuction.com began yesterday and there are about a dozen new listings. Prices have been reduced on several of the FM translators and bidding has been made easier. The auction ends at 3 p.m. CST Wednesday. Minimum bids are now as low as $22,500 each. “Buy Now” prices are also available.

That's what SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analyst Robert Peck speculated in Investors Business Daily Monday as SunTrust lowered its rating on Pandora stock to neutral from buy and lowered its price target on Pandora stock to 15 from 18. It was Pandora's second price-target cut and rating downgrade in less than two weeks.

On the Media Monitors weekly radio ad chart, Burger King jumped all the way up to the fourth spot by airing 31,202 commercials on radio stations across the country. The restaurant chain wasn't even in the top 100 on the chart last week.

The technology division (NAB Labs) of the National Association of Broadcasters has invested in a Baltimore company called Yet Analytics. Yet Analytics provides platforms for the multi-source collection and analysis of human and machine performance data within Fortune 500 companies and other large organizations.