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To celebrate CES 2022 week I have been sharing conversations with various thought leaders regarding CES, Media and Technology. Today it’s time to tap a bright mind from a generation the radio business needs to pay attention to: GenZ.

Hearst Baltimore's 98 Rock FM & WBAL NewsRadio AM/FM will serve as flagship stations of the Orioles Radio Network in 2022. The O's were being carried by Audacy before the switch.

The cluster of 7 iHeartMedia stations in Lexington are giving away a plethora of free promotion to the 8 organizations to help them raise awareness for the services they provide to the local community.

"50 Years of Music" will be the first of many planned special programming features as KEXP in Seattle celebrates its Golden Anniversary. Every Wednesday during 2022 music from 1972 will be mixed in with regular programming.

'On Air Fest' a storytelling, creativity in sound gathering, will be an in-person event this year. Participants and attendees will be required to have proof that all vaccinations have been completed by February 10, 2022; at least two weeks before the festival.

The Consumer Electronics Show begins today in Las Vegas. Radio Ink, along with QUU and several other companies, are sponsoring a reception for radio attendees at CES this Thursday.

Typically radio companies do not comment on personnel issues. However, Waterloo Media in Austin, wasn't going to allow former Afternoon Driver Dale Dudley get away with what they believed was fake news.

That's the word from NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last night. We had a chance to speak to LeGeyt, who was not only checking out the event to see how adjustments were being made to accommodate the latest COVID strain, he spoke to radio executives at a reception last night

Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahill says he doesn't believe Audacy is set to improve quickly in 2022 and investors already fear the worst when it comes to radio losing share to digital. Cahill says Audacy's revenue recovery is taking longer than expected.

The five new markets for Eastlan are: Anchorage AK, Joplin/Pittsburg MO/KS, Parkersburg/Marietta WV/OH, Tri-Cities  (Richland/Pasco/Kennewick) WA and Tullahoma/Shelbyville TN.