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According to Borrell & Associates you better bring expertise in marketing to your clients when you make that sales call. Contrary to what many radio managers believe, having an understanding of the client’s business is not as important as being an overall marketing expert.

It's what radio does better than any other industry, rallying its tribe to help others. iHeartMedia’s 7-station Houston cluster, with the help of listeners, is filling and deploying dozens of trucks loaded critically needed items for the communities impacted by Hurricane Ida.

Pastor Daniel Darling, a spokesman for the National Religious Broadcasters, has been fired after appearing on MSNBC and discussed how his faith motivated him to get the Covid-19 vaccine. NBC reports he was fired for violating the groups policy to remain neutral.

67-year-old Howie Rose announced on Twitter that today would be the final New York Mets baseball game he calls this year. The long-time radio voice of the Mets wrote that he's having surgery this week,

Radio veteran Bill Taylor (William Chimka) has died after a year-long battle with cancer.  Known for his celebrity impersonations, Taylor’s career included stops at KFWB Los Angeles, KSAN San Francisco, KMLE Phoenix, KIKK and KKHT Houston, Jones Satellite Network, as well as stints at WOKY and WEMP in his hometown of Milwaukee.

IBA members will hear how they might be able to “leverage organized transactional platforms for music licenses between music owners and music users.” Three NPREX executives will share their business model that they say may save broadcasters money.

NPR radio station KUER, which broadcasts from the University of Utah, is releasing State Street on September 13th. The goal of hosts KUER reporters Sonja Hutson and Emily Means is to make politics taste good.

Beasley Media Group, in collaboration with Woodward Sports, the Michigan Sports Network and Sports Map Radio Network, have teamed up to unveil The ROAR, Motor City Sports Talk 93.5 FM and 99.1 FM.

Anna Chauvet has joined the National Association of Broadcasters as VP of Public Policy. Chauvet joins NAB from the U.S. Copyright Office, where she was most recently Associate General Counsel.  

12 more members of the House of Representatives have added their support to the Local Radio Freedom Act which is a resolution the NAB is lobbying for in Washington opposing any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge on radio. The resolution now has 181 cosponsors in the House and 22 in the Senate.