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This dates back several years when superstar Taylor Swift was in a very public fight with Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun. When Borchetta sold Big Machine to Braun, Swift's master recordings were also boxed up as part of the deal. Swift despises Braun.

Katz Media Group has raised nearly $45,000 for the Broadcasters Foundation of America during its 11th annual company-wide membership drive, bringing the total amount raised to nearly $400,000 since the Katz drive began.

The Radio Mercury Awards were handed out Wednesday night during a virtual event. The Mercury Awards were established 30 years ago to encourage and reward the development of effective and creative radio commercials.

2022 will bring a daily news show to Nashville Public Radio's WPLN-FM. 'This Is Nashville' will be produced by a team of seven.

At Radio Ink's Forecast 2022 in New York City Tuesday, retiring NAB CEO Gordon Smith was honored with our 2021 Lifetime Leadership Award. The former two-term senator from Oregon became CEO of the National Associations of Broadcasters in November 2009. He’ll be retiring from that position at the end of this year.

Where is the revenue heading for terrestrial radio? That question was the first to be answered by a Forecast 2022 panel moderated by noted media ecologist Jack Myers, of MediaVillage.

That’s the “burning question” for a group of panelists appearing at Forecast 2022, who were posed with the following scenario: assuming Jessica Rosenworcel is confirmed as the official Chairwoman of the FCC, how will it effect something like multiple ownership?

From social justice initiatives that led General Motors to look within to best reflect the multicultural America of today to a rebuke of “total market” initiatives that swept across the U.S. advertising and marketing world a decade ago, the COVID-19 pandemic “reset everyone’s expectations,” American Urban Radio Networks CEO Chesley Maddox-Dorsey believes.

The National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation has elected Tony Coles of iHeart's Black Information Network, Paul Curran of Cox Media Group and Melody Smalls of Allen Media Group to serve on its Board of Directors.

G Accelerate Networks, the recently launched radio network under the leadership of CEO Jim Higgins, has signed its first ad sales deal. Virtual News Center will become the first client of the newly formed company.