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Last week Breakfast Club co-host Angela Yee announced she'll be leaving the Premiere syndicated show this Fall to host her own show. Yee's midday program will launch on 30 stations, including Power 105.1 in New York City where the Breakfast Club is hear now. We spoke to Yee on Friday about going solo, after 13 years as a co-host.

A new podcast industry show called Podcasting By The Numbers hosted by Gary Spurgeon has launched. The show is a short form daily podcast that features tips, insights, facts and stats from the podcasting industry.

It’s time to learn how to effectively reach consumers not only with great ad placement, but with the more important ad content. The Radio Masters Sales Summit presents "Great Copy Makes a Difference" on September 23.

(Mike McVay) Much has been written in the way of tributes to the Los Angeles Dodgers longtime play-by-play announcer Vin Scully who died August 2nd.

The Radio Television Digital News Association announced the national winners of the 2022 Edward R. Murrow Awards. The awards recognize more than 100 outlets for outstanding work in digital, radio and television journalism in technical and editorial categories.

(By Loyd Ford) When you are a brand-new seller, especially of radio, you are often “thrown to the wolves.” You are familiar with “sink or swim.” Well, in sales, it really is up to you.

(By Rick Fink) Let me ask you this... Have you ever recommended to a client that they should consider buying from a competitor of yours? Competitors aren’t just the other radio stations/groups.

(By Marc Greenspan) Nowadays you can find several sales training courses that will show you the best ways to sell … to close business. I am sure you have been through many sales training courses.

(By Randy Lane) There’s an adage in the film and television business that “if we don’t care about the characters, nothing else matters.” That holds true for radio and podcast shows as well. The likability factor is key to the audience caring about characters from the sweetest to the most lecherous and everyone in between.

Houston based RFC Media has three more Texas Radio Hall of Fame members on their roster. Longtime Houston radio hosts Pam Kelly, Laurie Kendrick and Maria Todd have been elected to the Texas Radio Hall of Fame’s class of 2022.