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Beverlee Brannigan is the 2021 CRB President’s Award recipient. Brannigan is a longtime member of the CRB Board and executive committee, and currently serves as an officer of the organization. She'll receive the award at CRS 2021.

Cumulus Media CEO Mary Berner will appear on Radio Ink's 2016 NAB/RAB Radio Show cover in September. She makes her debut on our 40 Most Powerful People in Radio list at number three. Berner will also report Q2 earnings Thursday afternoon as we edge closer to her one year anniversary as CEO. Here's why she was chosen third on our 2016 Power list -- and the Most Powerful Woman in the industry today.

Gimlet Media’s The Story Pirates Podcast, made for kids, will launch a season of 20 new episodes on January 31. The podcast launched on October 2, 2013.

Audacy Philadelphia rallied more than $109,000 in donations for veterans through its partnership with the Travis Manion Foundation during the seventh annual Talk Radio 1210 WPHT Radiothon.

(By Marc Greenspan) Most veteran radio advertisers perceive weekends as a bonus. Even worse, they may consider weekends as a throw-in that helps to bring in the primetime cost per point. This creates the perception that weekends have no value, which is far from the truth.

iHeartMedia Denver and the Colorado Rockies have signed a five-year extension of their radio broadcast agreement that will keep Rockies baseball on KOA NewsRadio 850 AM & 94.1 FM through the 2021 season. Jack Corrigan and Jerry Schemmel will continue as voices of the Colorado Rockies. Corrigan is in his 14th season and Schemmel is in his sixth.

(By Randy Lane) Routines are useful, but the downside is they can create rote behavior. In real life, breaking news, a loud noise, or the ping of an incoming text disrupts our patterns and forces us to pay attention. Suddenly we are alert, focused, and energized.

This time it's iHeart's KFI-AM in Los Angeles dropping the hammer down on host Tim Conway Jr. and his executive producer Sheron Bellio. Both are suspended this week for a horribe Asian-American skit.

Tonight at 7pm CST Compass Media's DeDe In The Morning will host a Facebook Live event about Race in America. She'll have guests from four of her affiliate cities; Dallas, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and New Haven.

In the weeks leading up to April 15-19, Radio Ink is talking with some of radio's biggest innovators about what has them excited about NAB Show 2023. Today we sit down with Steve Newberry, CEO of Quu.