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(By Rick Fink) Experience tells me that people, in general, like to take credit for “their” ideas… even, when at times, it wasn’t their idea alone! In other words, someone else or others were involved in helping come up with the idea!

(By Michael Doyle) Most of the media managers I talk to these days are searching to fill up their sales departments. Downsized during the pandemic, these managers realize they don’t have enough sellers to create demand on their inventory and accomplish their objectives.

(By Loyd Ford) It doesn’t really start with a target. Anyone can do that. The real beginning for sales is looking at individual businesses and business models.

(By Mike McVay) Building audience loyalty because of your connection to a market, is the difference between weathering an attack by a competitor or losing. That connectivity to a market, and to those things that an audience cares about, provides and advantage over out-of-market shows that haven’t customized their content for a local market.

Eric Zane, who was fired from a successful radio host job, is now a successful Podcaster. Zane is just one of the success stories you'll hear from during the Radio Ink/Podcast Business Journal Make Real Money Podcasting virtual conference, July 19 and 20.

Nominations for Radio Ink's 2022 Medallas de Cortez awards are still being accepted. The awards will be presented at the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference June 22-23 in Miami. Make your nominations in 7 categories HERE. Your deadline is THIS FRIDAY.

The Cox Media Group Tulsa cluster of Radio and TV stations is raising money to purchase medical supplies for the people of Ukraine. The cluster is partnering with non-profit MedShare to send 100% of the funds to help care for those impacted by the invasion.

Audacy has launched 102.1 JAMS (KRBQ-FM) in San Francisco. The station, previously known as The New Q102.1, will continue to feature a wide collection of classic hip-hop hits and throwbacks.

Loud Media has reached an agreement with Blount Broadcasting to acquire WGAP, WKVL, and their associated translators W290DJ and W265DR. Loud Media operates radio stations in New York, Tennessee, and Colorado.

The radio industry was buzzing late Thursday when Reuters posted a story that Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw floated an offer to buy Cumulus for between $300 and $340 million. Here's how the Cumulus Board of Directors reacted.