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From the Great Recession to the AI boom, one reporter has been in the room for the stories that moved markets. Now ABC News Chief Business, Technology and Economics Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis joins Forecast 2027 to give her read on the economy.

Every great sales story in radio has a second story running underneath it: the log that got rebuilt at 4:45, the spot that got cut an hour before the deadline, the revision nobody saw coming. The people who handle those moments rarely get the credit. They get the blame when something slips, and silence when everything works.

Podcasting just mapped how a casual listener becomes a superfan, and radio programmers may recognize the route. New research says the path runs through the host, daily habit, and direct access, with a sizable group of near-superfans needing only a nudge to cross over.

(Paige Nienaber) This week I sent all my clients pages and pages of Thanksgiving ideas, which, in the real world, is pretty late. If you can be working 90-120 days out, then that increases the chances that you might actually get a package sold.

Alice Cooper is adding a satellite gig. The host of syndicated Alice's Attic and Radio Hall of Fame inductee Alice Cooper will launch his own weekly program on SiriusXM's Little Steven's Underground Garage, the rock channel created by Stevie Van Zandt.

Radio's station count dipped for a third straight quarter, and the pressure is landing on AM. The FCC's newest totals show commercial stations on both bands still shrinking, with noncommercial FM growth no longer enough to keep the overall radio tally from sliding.

Allen Power's retirement as Salem Media President of Broadcast has set off a leadership shuffle at the NAB Radio Board. The association has named a new first vice chair of the executive committee and appointed a new director, filling the two seats Power held.

What if a radio station sold itself as a growth partner for local businesses instead of a place to buy spots? That question drives the Q4 sales event from The Radio Rally podcast, hosted by Rainmaker Pathway's Loyd Ford and CD Media Consulting's Chris Fleming.

Not everyone who keeps radio on the air works at a station, so Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio and the NAB Leadership Foundation are reminding women at technology vendors and partners to apply for the year-long LAUNCH engineering mentorship.

Rochelle, Illinois, listeners spent more than four decades hearing Rick Green read local commercials and host the weekly Trading Post. Rochelle Broadcasting Company's SuperHits 93.5 (WRHL-AM) and 102.3 The Coyote (WYOT) are mourning the radio personality, who died at 74.