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Envision has produced 24 segments of its new 60 Seconds of Service feature which it is offering to stations to air once per hour on Veterans Day. Each mini-segment features men, women, and even animals in uniform who have served their country and their communities.

Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference is being held March 22-23 in Fort Lauderdale — and we have a truly remarkable lineup of keynotes, covering everything from politics to the state of the industry to the relationship of modern performers with radio. Here's a look at our incredible lineup of speakers :

Beginning in July Edison Podcast Metrics will increase its sample sized by 150%. The increase will mean five-thousand interviews of podcast listeners in the US will be conducted each quarter.

Radio veteran Karina Farias has joined Edison Research as Project Coordinator. Most recently she was Program Director/Morning co-host at KUFX-FM in San Jose.

Happy Oaks Day! This week’s Radio Ink Blast from the Past comes from Paul Fiddick and coincides nicely with this weekend's "Fastest Two Minutes In Sports." Send your Blast From The Past to Cameron at [email protected] for your chance to be featured.

Award-winning journalist Jennifer Keiper is joining CBS News Radio as Midwest anchor and correspondent. She'll be based in Chicago and start working for the network November 9th. 

Family audio production company ABF Creative has released a study exploring the relationship between audio content and child development. The research offers evidence of audio's significant role in emotional well-being, academic performance, and mental health.

98.5 The Sports Hub/Boston’s Mike Thomas (pictured) has been named Barrett Sports Media's Major Market Program Director of the Year. In the Mid-Market category, Ryan Haney of WJOX in Birmingham claimed the top spot

(By Bob McCurdy) It has been a wild week of media news, led by Verizon, AT&T, Enterprise, GlaxoSmithKline, GM, Walmart, Pepsico, and J&J’s boycott of Google and YouTube due to their inability to safely “traffic” Web advertising. The environment in which some of their banner and video ads were served make commercials airing in radio’s more controversial programs akin to appearing in Ozzie & Harriet.

(By Bob McCurdy) In radio sales it’s easy to get caught up in an ever-accelerating fast lane, too busy to notice how we could be working smarter — more effectively and efficiently. Ironically, slowing down might help.