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Cherry Creek Media’s 43 radio stations will be using the Visual Quu technology to add visuals to their radio broadcasts. Visual Quus are synced on-screen messages like text, logos, and images on vehicle dashboards related to radio station and client on-air content.

KiiM-FM 99.5 will construct a 'Healing Field' on Saturday, September 11, 2021, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The 'Healing Field' will feature 2,977 American flags, each representing and remembering those that lost their lives.

As we mentioned in our story Tuesday, not every radio group and organization is in favor of lifting radio's ownership caps, despite the NAB's hard lobbying efforts on the FCC. One of those organizations is The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters.

The former Commission leaders, dating back to Newton Minow, have written a letter to Congress in favor of legislation reinstating a tax certificate program to encourage investment in station ownership for women and people of color. Read the letter HERE.

Media Staffing Network's founder and CEO Laurie Kahn will host the next IBA members only webinar. Talent Acquisition Tips to Attract a Higher Quality of Job Seeker will be held Tuesday September 14 at 4PM eastern. Kahn will detail what it takes to compete to hire top talent.

Following a two month summer vacation from his SiriusXM morning show, Howard Stern returned to work Tuesday calling vaccine critics imbeciles and took aim and several radio hosts who died from COVID.

K-LOVE listeners across the country raised enough money through its Convoy of Hope to send the equivalent of more than 400 trucks filled with relief supplies to survivors of Hurricane Ida.

The Home Depot sits at the top of the latest Media Monitors list. Search engine privacy provider DuckDuckGo makes a move into the top-five.

The NAB says the answer to that question is yes. And, for years, there's been a number of radio groups the NAB represents, that have been trying to convince The FCC to change the ownership rules. They say as the rules stand now, they are detrimental to competition, localism and diversity.

(By Mike McVay) The golden rule of programming is to provide the listener with Instant Gratification. If you’re programming a music station, then play the biggest hits the most frequently, so that every time they click on your station, they hear a favorite song.