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On October 19th at the Javits Center, a special executive session called “One-on-One With Radio Trailblazers” will feature Urban One Founder Cathy Hughes and Beasley Media Group CEO Caroline Beasley. They'll discuss their roles in shaping today’s radio landscape and the future of the industry. Get more info on the event HERE.

Cumulus Colorado Springs’ radio stations KVOR-AM and XTRA Sports 1300/KCSF-AM have renewed the broadcast agreement to carry Air Force Academy athletic events. The new agreement renews a successful partnership that has been in place for 40 years.

The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters will host the 46th Annual Fall Broadcast Conference in Washington, D.C. in October. The conference will be part of the 2022 By Black Conference presented by the U.S. Black Chambers and will include the Power of Urban Radio Forum.

You can find out by subscribing to Radio Ink Magazine today. Our 2022 Best PD list is in the issue out this week. :earn how these PD's made it to the top, how they plan to overcome radio's declining listenership and the advice they have for up-and-coming programmers. Subscribe HERE to get your own copy of Radio Ink delivered digitally.

Six groups met with FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer and Sanford Williams, Special Advisor to Rosenworcel. The groups lobbied for the rule change that would allow broadcasters to target smaller communities with local content.

Angela Yee announced Wednesday morning that she's getting her own show. iHeart is giving Yee a nationally syndicated daily midday show and Yee stated that it will be heard in New York City on Power 105.1, where The Breakfast Club is heard now. 

(By Deborah Parenti) It’s a sad commentary on the times in which we live that a community’s being assaulted by horrific violence or destructive acts of nature is, if not inevitable, increasingly likely.

Jason Jones - known as Big Mamma on Beasley's WXKB-FM in Fort Myers - posted to social media last night that after 14 years, he's no longer with the company. He wrote, "the story will come out soon."

(By Ken Benson) For as long as I can remember, programmers have been taught lifelong music tastes are formed during the teenage years and there is plenty of research to support this long held belief. But data released last month by Luminate challenges this widely held assumption.

Radio Ink and The Center for Sales Strategy would like to help you become an effective Radio Sales Leader. "Mindset for Sales Leaders" is just one of the not to be missed sessions at the upcoming Radio Masters Sales Summit.