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One first-time Country Radio Seminar attendee is about to get a foot in the door through the 2027 Rusty Walker Scholarship. The recipient will be recognized during CRS 2027 and will receive full registration, round-trip airfare to Nashville, and hotel accommodations.

Happy Friday! This week's Radio Ink Blast From The Past comes from Richard Fusco, pictured on the air at Radio Woodstock in 1975. Send your Blast From The Past story and photo to Editor-in-Chief Cameron Coats for your chance to be featured.

NAB's chief legal officer is stepping away. Rick Kaplan, who led the association through a decade of courtroom and regulatory battles that reshaped broadcast ownership and streaming rates, will depart at the end of 2026, and his responsibilities will move into a new advocacy structure.

One day on the air, and a food bank's shelves are restocked. Fresno's NewsTalk 580/105.9 and local agriculture company Gar Inc. teamed up again for the Central California Food Bank, with listeners and sponsors turning a day-long broadcast into relief for San Joaquin Valley families.

NYC may have dubbed itself the Media Capital of the World, but when the Radio Wayne Awards finalists land in the Big Apple next week, they're bringing their hometowns with them. See, the best radio sales leaders know the market isn't just where you sell; it's how.

Reaching more voters, not the same voters again, is the puzzle facing political advertisers this fall. Audacy's answer, laid out in a new interview with Campaigns & Elections, starts in the car, where economic worry and radio listening overlap every day during the commute.

NAB is pitching its New York show as a guide for stations juggling shifting technology and business models. AI, audience growth, streaming, and new revenue sources headline a lineup that NAB's April Carty-Sipp says has something for every broadcaster.

With newspaper closings rising, TV newsrooms consolidating, and local creators scarce, a sweeping new report sketches local news as thinning out in the places where it may be needed the most. Will hometown radio and its digital products be there to fill the gaps?

Three Audacy stations turned the generosity of Las Vegas listeners into a food bank haul ahead of the holidays. Personalities from Mix 94.1 (KMXB), 98.5 KLUC, and Q100.5 (KXQQ) spent weekends collecting cash for Southern Nevada families facing food insecurity.

Native-produced radio is getting a new pipeline into the public media system. With help from Public Media Infrastructure, PRX is taking on broadcast distribution for Native Voice One, whose weekly series reaches tribal, rural, and urban stations across the US.