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Oink Ink has announced its call for entries to the 2019 Dead Radio Contest. The Dead Radio Contest is a competition for advertising copywriters who have written radio scripts that for — whatever reason — were never selected by the client.

Tuesday night, Boston Country station 101.7 The Bull was joined by Chris Young, Russell Dickerson, and Gone West at The Chevalier Theatre in Medford, MA, to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

After previously announcing 18 speakers for the upcoming 2020 BSM Summit, Barrett Sports Media has added six additional industry leaders to its two-day sports media conference.

President Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is launching a daily radio show and podcast today. The show will be about the impeachment process and is already slated to air on six conservative leaning stations in Virginia and Florida.

Radio Ink is talking with independent operators, getting an early take on radio's revenue performance in the third quarter. Ron Stone is the President/CEO of Adams Radio Group, a medium market media company based in Lakeville, MN.

Randy Michaels returns to Forecast this year, heading up a session that is bound to prompt undivided attention and provoke plenty of discussion, both on stage and from the audience.

Deals have been few and far between in 2019. Broker Jason James of Patrick Communications fills us in on his latest filing.

Pineapple Street Studios, which was recently purchased by Entercom and rolled into Radio.com, will produce The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow. The podcast will be an audio companion to Farrow’s book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators.

Westwood One and country music superstar Kix Brooks will honor generations of men and women who served in the U.S. armed forces with Brooks' annual "A Salute to Our Military Veterans."

The future of the financially strapped iconic Brooklyn radio station is still unclear after a federal district court kicked the issue back to the New York State Supreme Court on Monday. Radio Ink has been told that any stories that the station will be returning to local programming anytime soon are 100% inaccurate.