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Wreaths Across America Radio has launched the 'Remembrance Ring' program. Military families will be able to extend holiday greetings and thanks to service members and veterans on the iHeartRadio audio stream.

iHeartMedia has flipped the holiday switch at Sunny 106.5 (KSNE-FM). The festive music will be heard in all dayparts through Christmas.

Benztown is back with 'Christmas In a Box'. The package has more than 5,000 tracks of audio Christmas cheer.

Edison Research has teamed up with SXM Media and Mindshare on the first-ever comprehensive research report on Black Podcast listeners. The Black Podcast Listener Report will be presented in a webinar Tuesday, November 16.

Chris Eagan has been named VP of Audience and Operations for Cox Media Group. He will also lead the CMG Digital Content team and partnerships.

Even though affiliates were told conservative talker Dan Bongino chose to be off the air this week, they were alerted he would be live Wednesday. He then went on the air, on stations owned by the company he's fighting with, and said he was starting a fund to help the employees that same company fired.

Like other radio companies reporting, these increases are compared to a pandemic-ravaged 2020. On the radio side, spot revenue was up 12% to $122 million and network revenue increased 21% to $63.4 million. Digital revenue increased 67% to $33.3 million.

(By Deborah Parenti) Two steps forward. One step back. That’s how it’s been with the pandemic. Just when we thought it was safe to come out of the harbor, a variant called delta has whipped up more storm clouds.

Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan, who also owned the Seattle Mariners at one time, and launched the first all-sports radio station in the country, WFAN, has written a book that will come out in 2022. It's called Never Ride a Roller Coaster Upside Down.

The Urban One Q3 earnings call should be interesting today. After years of planning, and millions of dollars spent, voters in Richmond voted down Urban One's proposed Casino. By a margin of just under 3%, voters rejected the One Casino + Resort referendum. Five Virginia cities voted on casino referendums; Richmond was the only one to not pass.