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BioNtech-Pfizer holds on to the top-spot for the third week in a row. Media Monitors lists 116,182 spots promoting the jab.

After nearly eight weeks of Christmas Music, KUKN-FM in Longview, Washington is now Solid Rock, The All New 101.5 The Blitz.  The format before Christmas music began playing was Classic Hits. The station is owned by Washington Interstate Broadcasting Company.

Cenla Broadcasting is helping Veterans in Central Louisiana. Personal care items were collected.

Back in early December we reported on the death of 50-year old Cape Cod radio employee Eric Christensen, who was found at his home with a gunshot would to his head. Police have arrested 29-year old Justin Peckham in connection with Christensen's murder.

(By Mike McVay) It’s the last Monday of the year. Normally, as one-year ends, we’re excited for the next. “Next” and “New” sounds hopeful, fresh, exciting and fosters hope. We make New Year’s Resolutions, which are often broken or forgotten by mid-January, but we make them.

(By Loyd Ford) What you are about to read is not a negative article about how radio is better than digital. In fact, this is an article about how digital advertising is different than radio and your role is selling the effectiveness of radio in a positive way and reserving the right to educate your clients on digital.

Connoisseur Media announced last week that co-founder and CFO Michael Driscoll is stepping down at the end of the year. Driscoll has been the CFO of the Company since 2004 and has been working with CEO Jeff Warshaw for more than 25 years. Oliver Price takes over as CFO on January 1.

Noalmark Broadcasting Corporation, owners  of KKBE AM/FM in Roswell, New Mexico, has flipped to Regional-Mexican after stunting with Christmas music for a month. The station is now KBIM AM 910. They also have an FM translator for the format at 93.7

Regional Radio Group, based in Glens Falls, NY raised $85,000 for Operation Santa Claus. More than a thousand kids will have a merrier Christmas because of the effort.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s “Pandemic Diaries: One Couple's Story of Isolation and Love in a Nursing Home” is among the 2021 winners in the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.