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WJBR-FM’s 'Help Our Kids’ Radiothon raised $332,648 to benefit Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. The 12th annual event benefits the hospital's Child Life Programs.

94.9 KCMO-FM Kansas City has been named Station of the Year at the annual KC Media Mix Awards. Also honored was 94.9 KCMO Morning Host Kelly Urich, who received the KC Media Mix Award for Personality of the Year, and Cumulus Kansas City’s Teresa Stanton received the KC Media Mix Award for Account Executive of the Year.

The ‘ABC News Live Prime’ and ‘World News Tonight - Sunday’ Anchor Linsey Davis takes over evening drive on ABC Audio. She will anchor the radio newscasts, Monday - Thursday.

iHeart has flipped a Tucson 'Hot AC" station to 'Latino Hits'. KMMA-FM has been rebranded to "MEGA 97.1."

After two days and dozens of legendary performances, the twelfth annual iHeartRadio Music Festival hosted by Ryan Seacrest has been dubbed a success. The iconic weekend-long concert event included the biggest names in music across all genres on the main stage at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and also featured celebrity appearances on September 23 and September 24.

Progressive managed to hold on to the top spot on the Media Monitors list, after climbing back to number one a week ago. Indeed pulled back into the number two slot after being bounced from the top last week.

Roy Williams was the keynote speaker Friday at the Radio Ink Radio Masters Sales Summit. He told the crowd that one of radio's biggest problems is that month-to-month cycle where sellers are always working to make the next month's budget, trying to keep their heads above water.

The NAB has filed an ex parte with the FCC regarding a proposed rulemaking that would enable GeoBroadcast Solutions to license its booster technology to FM stations. The NAB raised concerns with the proposal's merits in the context of accusations regarding alleged questionable business dealings of GBS CEO Chris Devine.

The gloves are off between the NAB, which wants the FCC to reject Zonecasting, and GeoBroadcast Solutions, the company behind the technology that allows stations to hyper-target programming and advertising for up to five minutes an hour with FM boosters.

(By Alec Drake) When you walk into a social setting, your first inclination is to read the room. In a professional sales setting, when meeting someone for the first time, being able to read the room now has financial implications.