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The 46th Annual Gracie Awards were held and streamed virtually this week. The alliance for Women in Media Foundation gala was hosted by Lauren Ash and featured performance from Jewel and CeCe Winans.

Popular Chicago morning show host Eric Ferguson is off the air after a third allegation of inappropriate behavior was reported. Hubbard Market Manager Jeff England has taken the host off the air through October and alerted staff to brace for more press stories about Ferguson.

Intrepid Companies has closed on the purchase of KDVB-FM in Effingham, Kansas, from Cumulus. The price was $300,000 with a CP to modify. Intrepid is headed by Don Sherman, who plans to relocate the tower closer to Topeka, and upgrade to a Class C2. Eddie Esserman of Media Services Group’s represented Cumulus in the transaction.

Univision’s TUDN and Major League Baseball have signed a multi-year agreement naming TUDN Radio the official Spanish-language radio partner of MLB in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The deal provides exclusive coverage on TUDN Radio of select games during the postseason and the entire World Series.

La Pantera 96.1 (The Panther) is on the air, serving Hilton Head, SC. Dick Broadcasting flipped the oldies station, WHHW-FM to the Spanish language format.

Multifaceted entertainer, pianist John Tesh is getting ready for a live streaming concert after battling back through cancer and addiction. 'Inspiration, Motivation & Music' is set for October 9.

Yesterday we reported about the NAB filing new comments with the FCC asking the Commission to loosen ownership caps for radio. Another filing was made by 10 radio companies, requesting a change in the rules, because digital companies have swooped in and taken 50% of their ad revenue.

In new comments filed with the FCC, the NAB is again calling on The Commission to loosen ownership caps for radio. Two big reasons the NAB is calling for more deregulation is radio's declining revenue and audience due to the competition it's facing.

Last week Xperi’s Joe D’Angelo, Xperi's SVP of Global Radio, and QUU Interactive CEO Steve Newberry joined Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan to discuss how radio can compete and win the battle for the dashboard using HD Radio. If you missed it, you can watch it HERE.

While there's been no indication yet that Facebook going offline Monday was due to cybercrime, it has certainly become a major problem for any company with a web presence. Security expert Steve Morgan (pictured) will be one of our featured speakers at Forecast 2022, November 16th in New York City.