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Spanish Radio Academy President Jorge Álvarez and Spanish Ambassador to the U.S. Santiago Cabanas presented NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith the International Award from the Spanish Radio Academy on World Radio Day, February 13, 2019.

And it comes from a newspaper. The L.A. Daily News highlights how Saul Levine actively programs and promotes his HD channels.

Tom Swank, the longtime General Manager of WNKO/WHTH Radio in Central Ohio, died in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon. He was 73.

Wednesday night at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, Radio Ink handed out its awards for the Best Program Directors in Country Radio. The best 30 Country programmers in the country accepted their awards from Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti before Zac Brown took the stage at the Omni Hotel.

Broadcast technology and national network sales solutions company Skyview Networks has announced seven significant promotions. 

Magnum.Media has named Stuart J. Wattles News Director of Oldies station WRJN and Country station WVTY, both in Wisconsin.

Six broadcasters will join the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2019. Two on-air personalities and four program directors will be honored. Two of the latter group made Radio Ink's recent Best Program Directors in Country Radio list.

The latest NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study of 3,084 respondents, ages 14-54 and across all PPM markets, revealed that smart speaker penetration is up to 43% among persons 14-54. And smart speakers are becoming a feature in one room in particular.

The National Association of Broadcasters is launching the Small and Medium Market Radio Forum at NAB Show, Sunday, April 7 (2:00 – 5:00 p.m.) at the Westgate.

Attracting local advertisers to traditional media is harder than ever, thanks to the growth of digital media solutions. How can radio stations, in particular those targeting Hispanic consumers, win over some of those advertisers with its own digital offerings?