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Radio Ink asked the industry's Top Digital Sales Professionals how they’re turning Big Tech’s missteps into opportunities and building ad campaigns that bring back the local connection, accountability, and guidance small businesses won’t find in Silicon Valley.

The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) group is planning a leadership webinar focused on practical management skills for professionals across today’s audio industry.

After 3 1/2 years away from North Texas, a familiar radio voice is returning to a pair of Cumulus Media-owned Country stations — this time for weekend and fill-in duties.

(Charese Frugé) Carly Portch’s radio journey didn’t begin behind a microphone; it started at the front desk. In 2010, Portch entered the industry as a station receptionist. She knew early on that simply being in the building mattered.

He is familiar to Radio Ink readers as a columnist and to the industry as an esteemed radio advertisement specialist focused on recruitment spots. Now, he's planning to pivot, ending a nearly 40-year career in the field.

In prepared testimony distributed ahead of his appearance Wednesday at a Senate Commerce Committee FCC Oversight Hearing, its first since 2022, Brendan Carr applauded Committee Chairman Ted Cruz and Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey for their leadership on the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act."

The Hubbard Radio Classic Rocker serving the Windy City and northern suburbs toward Racine, Wisc., has raised a significant amount of dollars to local pet-related causes through its ninth annual "Operation Santa Paws" fundraising event. 

A Cleveland FM radio station owned by Audacy raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in a fundraiser conducted on Friday that resulted in additional support to UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital. 

The Classic Hits radio station owned by Audacy serving its home market of Philadelphia is celebrating a big — no pun intended — fundraising total in support of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

It's the end of the comment period for the long-delayed 2022 Quadrennial Review of the FCC's rules, and that's led the NAB to reiterate its calls for the Carr Commission to modernize outdated local radio ownership rules.