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(By Loyd Ford) Market managers and sales managers, this is for your sales meeting this week. Local sellers, this is to help you take control of your destiny and how you are seen by local management, corporate management and even more importantly – clients.

In September of 2019 KXLG-FM (Watertown, SD) owner Bob Faehn was diagnosed with cancer. Last month he passed away. Faehn launched the station in 2009 and was a big proponent of live and local. One of his first hires, who like many starting in radio, did everything in the building, was Melissa Herrboldt. Now, she owns the station.

Sports USA has reached an agreement with the National Hockey League to be the league’s exclusive live national radio play-by-play partner through the 2024-2025 season. The broadcasts will include select regular season games through the hockey season.

Radio's Premiere Event, Forecast 2022, will be looking at what broadcasters need to know to leverage the dramatic changes 2020 brought to the course of advertising. Forecast 2022 is set for November 16, 2021 at the Harvard Club, NYC.

An interesting battle is about to boil up in Boston. Audacy has hired Mike Thomas as Market Manager. Thomas was PD of The Sports Hub in Boston when it was owned by Entercom (now Audacy), a station the company chose to divest (to Beasley) after the CBS merger. 

The Independent Broadcasters Association is partnering with Auddia for a members presentation on revenue generating opportunities. Auddia is a tech company that uses AI for a subscription-based app.

WABC-AM in New York City is celebrating 100 years. Red Apple CEO John Catsimatidis says WABC will celebrate its history throughout the next year, starting this month. The station has also created a 100 years webpage HERE.

Fox Sports 99.9 Boise is the second go-around for the national sports brand in the market. Townsquare Media's KFXD-AM carried the programming until it flipped to hip-hop about a year ago.

Buffalo’s 97 Rock (WGRF-FM) raised more than $280,000 during the 27th Annual Make-A-Wish Radiothon. The 28 hour event raised money to help children with critical illnesses.

104.3 WZYP headed up a successful community relief drive for Waverly, TN residents. Flash flooding in late August destroyed homes and businesses and killed more than 20 people in the community about 60 miles west of Nashville.