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Bloomberg Baystate Business, which originates out of Bloomberg's Boston bureau, will expand by one hour (3-6 PM/ET) on Bloomberg 106.1FM. The show is hosted by Bloomberg's Joe Shortsleeve, Kim Carrigan and Bureau Chief Tom Moroney.

Broadcast attorney David Oxenford has a reminder about off-year elections. He says while most broadcast stations don’t think about the FCC’s political broadcasting rules in odd numbered years, they should – particularly in connection with state and local political offices. Check out his latest blog on the issue HERE.

Leighton Enterprises has signed a purchase agreement to buy the stations from Paradis Broadcasting of Alexandria. The stations, located in Western Central Minnesota, are KXRA-AM, KXRA-FM, and KXRZ-FM.

(Jeff McHugh) In the streaming and podcast era, you cannot sustain a brand long-term promoting a music position or giveaways. Here are tactics for solidifying your station’s reputation for killer content and memorable, entertaining personalities.

(By Bob McCurdy) There’s a plethora of examples in American business and the radio industry of conventional wisdom being right until it was wrong.

KQFN,The Fanatic 1580AM/99.3FM, and 95.9FM in the East Valley will have a new morning show, Monday September 23.

(By Charlie Sislen) Successful radio stations have done a tremendous job of building unique brands in their market. Whether it is “more music,” “great giveaways,” or the “news source,” these brands let the listeners know what to expect. Delivering on this expectation is another issue.

ABC Radio is being replaced by ABC Audio for the name of the umbrella brand. The company's view is that with the new platforms entering consumers’ lives, from podcast distribution to interactive voice and beyond, the switch of names is appropriate.

According to the advertising research firm, radio ad sales were up just under 1% in Q2, mostly thanks to network radio, which was up 6%. Local continues to be a problem for radio.

With the research firm tossing figures around in the billions it's nice to see podcasting get a mention in the report. Here's what the firm said about the medium.