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(Randy Lane) Radio has one advantage no algorithm can copy or streaming service can manufacture: you’re from here. But being local isn’t enough. The goal isn’t simply to talk about the community; it’s to sound like the community.

(Bob Lawrence) One of the worst events in life that most of us go through is the loss of a job. So many of us value and measure our lives by the success we achieve in business. It seems to be more and more difficult to recover from the shock, disappointment, and fear of a job loss.

MediaCo is putting a new name in charge of its engineering operation. Ken Wilkey takes the Head of Engineering post at the multicultural broadcaster after leading media operations, engineering, and technology at stops that run from Spanish-language radio and television to cable business news.

Happy Friday! This week’s Radio Ink Blast From The Past features Ronnie Love. This promo shot takes us back to 1975 at WJBE-AM/FM in Knoxville. Send your photo to Editor-in-Chief Cameron Coats for your chance to be featured.

Two Pac-12 basketball championship games will share one day, and one national audio broadcaster, in Las Vegas. Compass Media Networks will carry both as part of a multi-year national audio deal that also adds the conference's football championship, with coverage kicking off this December.

Data has a new seat at the table at iHeartMedia. Lainie Fertick, who started as an intern in 2004, becomes the company's first-ever Chief Insights Officer and joins its StratCom leadership team, a promotion that puts insights work across the entire company in her hands.

The Lisa McKay Women in Radio Scholarship is back. Female college seniors and early-career programmers can apply for one of three packages covering registration, airfare, and hotel in Nashville for first-time attendees to Country Radio Seminar ahead of CRS 2027.

A rising tide is lifting advertising, and audio is in the boat. A new global forecast shows the overall market climbing sharply on AI investment and major events, with audio advertising growing as online audio gains and radio, still a large category, adjusts at the margins.

Decades of Connecticut radio history were on stage Wednesday night. Three radio figures joined the Connecticut Broadcasters Association's Hall of Fame, and the annual awards celebrated the stations and talent shaping markets large and small.

Morning drive at 101.1 WCBS-FM has its next voices. Two weeks after Race Taylor left the chair, Audacy's New York Classic Hits station is pairing a multi-market host with a former Boston morning-show talent for The Morning Show with Trey and Loren Raye.