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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.

The National Association of Broadcasters is offering the 2022 Election Toolkit. The online resource provides local radio and television broadcasters with ideas and information on how to cover the 2022 local, state and federal elections.

Progressive climbed into the number one spot on the latest Media Monitors chart. Number two last week; the insurance giant kicked last week's number one, Upside, into third.

Cumulus has launched a Sports and Sports Betting station in Providence, 790 THE SCORE/WPRV-AM. The station was previously programmed News/Talk and Business.