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iHeartMedia Milwaukee’s 97.3 The Game (WRNW-FM) and morning show host Steve Czaban have reached a multi-year broadcast agreement extension. Czaban, a long-time host in Milwaukee, joined the station in 2019.

Alpha Media is working to get 4 Iowa stations back on the air when a serious storm swept through the Mason City area. As you can see from this picture the tower snapped and fell onto to the radio station building.

This week Hawai‘i Public Radio GM José Fajardo was honored with the Public Radio Regional Organizations Award during a public media conference in Denver. Fajardo has been GM of the statewide nonprofit public radio organization since 2016.

During the NAB Show in Las Vegas this month, a special reception called Cocktails and Conversations is being held at The Mayfair Supper Club in The Bellagio Hotel April 24th. The event is being hosted by several radio industry companies, including QUU.

Before COVID consumed our lives, the NAB Show in Las Vegas boasted an annual attendance of over 100,000 people with vendors from all over the world. In two weeks the organization returns to Vegas hoping for a return to those pre-COVID glory days.

Williams Media Group Enid, Oklahoma morning man Alan Clepper is now 40 feet in the air, where he'll be for three days, to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The Radio Advertising Bureau has announced that the call for entry deadline for the 2022 Mercury Awards has been extended to April 27th. Finalists will be announced in May, and winners will be announced at the live Radio Mercury Awards, Thursday, June 9 in New York City.

Public Radio station WNYC's broadcasts from 9/11 were inducted into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry this week. The station broadcast the chaotic first details of the attack on the World Trade Center from its studios just blocks away.

RAB and Provoke Insights have launched a partnership focused on providing broadcasters with additional knowledge and insights into the consumer mindset as well as better understanding audio’s role in shopping behaviors. The new primary research will focus on key advertising categories for radio.

'Sympathy Pains' is a new true-crime podcast from independent journalist Laura Beil telling the story of a woman who faked illnesses for nearly 20 years. Beil specializes in medicine, health policy and science and reported and hosted the podcast, 'Dr. Death'.