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(By Rick Fink) As media reps, we make sales calls for a variety of different reasons. Depending on the stage of your relationship with a client, each call has a different purpose.

(By Mike McVay) During last week’s Morning Show Bootcamp in Chicago, I was honored to moderate a panel that included several of the heads of programming from four of the major broadcast companies. Here's what happened...

(By Loyd Ford) This article is for radio CEOs, market managers, others in leadership positions in radio and local radio sellers in the United States.

Todd Brandt and Mike Tyler are now members of the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. The Todd 'N' Tyler Radio Empire, syndicated program is based in Omaha.

Skyview Networks' CT40 and B-Dub Radio have a couple of specials for the Labor Day Weekend. Work It, America!' and 'Grills and Guitars Weekend' will feature some of the top stars in Country Music.

SiriusXM and TikTok have teamed up on a new full-time music channel. 'TikTok Radio' has been designed to sound like a radio version of the platform's 'For You' feed.

On Wednesday the NAB announced that if you were going to Vegas for their 2021 show, you needed to show proof that you had been given the COVID-19 vaccine. CES, also held in Vegas, made a similar announcement days earlier. Two radio companies, Cumulus and Radio One, are requiring their employees get vaccinated.

Earlier this week the RTNDA announced its 2021 Edward R. Murrow winners for excellence in journalism. WLRN-FM in Miami won the Murrow in the overall excellence category for its coverage of the pandemic. John Labonia is the General Manager of the station. 

The New York Post is reporting that Max Kellerman is expected to be removed from ESPN’s First Take, which he now hosts with Stephen A. Smith. The paper says Kellerman will move to ESPN's syndicated radio show to co-host with Keyshawn Johnson and replace Zubin Mehenti.

Along with the Mark Wahlberg Family of Dealerships, the Columbus Radio Group raised enough school supplies for over 400 central Ohio families. Listeners filled bins at the Wahlberg locations and the supplies were turned over to the Driven Foundation, an organization that provides families with basic human needs.