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Jim Winston's letter to The FCC was short and sweet. The NABOB CEO said his Board of Directors voted 6-4 to discontinue support of the rule change that would permit FM boosters to transmit several minutes per hour of local programming to specific communities.

The 2022 Masters of Marketing Conference was held in Orlando last week with over 2,000 people gathering for a chance to hear from CMO's from of advertising's top brands. The RAB, iHeart and Audacy were all a big part of the event and Cumulus Media's Pierre Bouvard has a full report on the role audio plays for brands. Read it HERE.

P1 Media Group is out with its annual Christmas Music Research, The company surveyed radio listeners nationwide likely to listen to an all-Christmas music radio station during the holiday season.

Airing 52,823 commercials on radio stations across the country last week, the Insurance giant was again radio's top advertiser. Indeed held onto the second spot with 49,018. The remainder of the top five were...

The first of many press releases announcing a flip to Christmas music crossed our desks Monday. iHeartMedia's LITE-FM In Chicago is the first to go to around-the-clock Christmas music. The station officially begins spreading holiday cheer on Tuesday.

Despite the decline in revenue, CEO Mary Berner said the company is in an "enviable financial position to effectively navigate through the continuing headwinds." She called it a "solid" performance in the quarter.

Earlier this year Amazon launched Amp, hoping to "reimagine" radio, bringing on former syndicated host Zach Sang as one of its early hires. Turns out getting people to listen to radio that's not really radio isn't all that easy. On Friday Business Insider reported the Amp division at Amazon cut 150 people.

(By Randy Lane) There’s a cacophony of voices in the radio industry touting the importance of talent. Excellent that we’ve taken the first step by acknowledging that talent is radio’s ace for surviving and thriving.

Benztown and P1 Media Group will host a free webinar Thursday called How to Be Creative, Have Fun & Create Two Massive Brands – What We Can Learn From Radio in Australia. 

(By Pat Bryson) Just before COVID hit and made my passport irrelevant, I was attending a Radio Days Europe conference in Vienna. One of the many radio friends I've met doing my job (I SO like that about what I do), is a programmer for a radio station in Iceland.