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Beasley's 92.5 Maxima in Tampa raised $147,380 during its 12th annual St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Radio-thon. This year’s total’s surpassed 2020 by $10,000.

Three, three-hour specials are being offered to ABC Audio affiliate for use over the Labor Day weekend. Country Music, Rock Music and News specials are in the line-up.

With spring comes all the gardening and home improvement projects. Which likely explains The Home Depot’s huge tally of radio ads, making it radio’s biggest advertiser for the second week in a row.

AI-powered radio tech company Super Hi-Fi is expanding its new Program Director platform into Mexico. The radio division of Grupo Multimedios has chosen Super Hi-Fi's artificial intelligence programmer for its online and broadcast expansion plans. Multimedios operates 60 radio stations.

Educational Media Foundation paid $5.63 million for Brown University's WLVO-FM (formerly WBRU-FM) in Providence. The deal was first announced on August 29. The student-run station moved to an all-digital platform. Robert Maccini of Media Services Group was the broker for Brown Broadcasting in the deal.

In a joint letter to radio stations, the Radio Music Licensing Committee and Global Music Rights have let radio stations know that they are close to hammering out a licensing deal to settle the long-running RMLC-GMR lawsuits.

The NAB Leadership Foundation revealed that award-winning actors, television hosts and a country music star will appear at The 2020 Celebration of Service to America Awards. The program will air on local stations nationwide August 22 and will also be accessible online.

And sell more advertising. So the online retail giant has launched a new ad-supported music-streaming service. The free service will be available to customers with Alexa devices who don’t subscribe to Amazon Prime

The unofficial start of summer continues to give radio a boost, especially with the boon of Memorial Day sales. According to the latest update from Media Monitors for the week of May 22-28 the total spot play of the top five national advertisers on radio has increased.

Community Broadcasters radio stations Border 106.7 and 94 Rock WOTT raised over $103,000 dollars during the Children’s Miracle Network Radiothon over a 36-hour period, beginning November 1. All proceeds go to supporting services for infants and children at pediatric and neonatal intensive care units.