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During the NAB Show in Las Vegas this month, a special reception called Cocktails and Conversations is being held at The Mayfair Supper Club in The Bellagio Hotel April 24th. The event is being hosted by several radio industry companies, including QUU.

Before COVID consumed our lives, the NAB Show in Las Vegas boasted an annual attendance of over 100,000 people with vendors from all over the world. In two weeks the organization returns to Vegas hoping for a return to those pre-COVID glory days.

Williams Media Group Enid, Oklahoma morning man Alan Clepper is now 40 feet in the air, where he'll be for three days, to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The Radio Advertising Bureau has announced that the call for entry deadline for the 2022 Mercury Awards has been extended to April 27th. Finalists will be announced in May, and winners will be announced at the live Radio Mercury Awards, Thursday, June 9 in New York City.

Public Radio station WNYC's broadcasts from 9/11 were inducted into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry this week. The station broadcast the chaotic first details of the attack on the World Trade Center from its studios just blocks away.

RAB and Provoke Insights have launched a partnership focused on providing broadcasters with additional knowledge and insights into the consumer mindset as well as better understanding audio’s role in shopping behaviors. The new primary research will focus on key advertising categories for radio.

vCreative has teamed up with Waymark to offer radio stations to easily sell and create OTT and digital video assets on behalf of local advertisers. vCreative is a workflow solutions company for radio and Waymark brings an AI-powered video creation platform to the table.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that advertising spending on all digital platforms in 2021 jumped $50 billion to $189 billion. Digital audio saw the largest increase, up 57.9% to $4.9 billion.

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation announced the winners of the 47th Annual Gracie Awards which will return in-person on May 24th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. Here are all the radio winners...

49-year old ESPN Louisville host Andrew Deener avoids jail by taking a plea in a domestic violence charge from last month. He was accused of slamming his girlfriend's head into a car at a restaurant during a dispute. The complaint was amended to disorderly conduct.