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New York Festivals® Radio Awards is now accepting entries. Award winners will be celebrated at NYF’s Storytellers Galaat NAB October 2021.

KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM host Michael Krasny is retiring after 30 years. His final Forum broadcast will be February 12.

It's called the BetQL Audio Network. The network, which follows Entercom's recent acquisition of sports data and iGaming affiliate platform QL Gaming Group, will feature sports gambling programming heard across Entercom’s sports stations and on Radio.com.

Babbel has been knocked out of the Media Monitors top spot by CDC Centers For Disease Control & Prevention. CDC aired 62,815 spots last week.

Longshot is a documentary anthology exploring the intersection of sports and social change. McClatchy has 30 newsrooms across the country and is teaming up with iHeartMedia for this series.

Foo Fighters Radio, will be a limited-engagement channel, hand-crafted by the band. The channel launches February 3 and will air for two months.

Sun Broadcast Group has hired Taylor Wood, as Director of Inventory Sales. Wood  comes over from Group M where he was Senior Partner/Associate Director of National Radio Investment.

Continuing with our weekly series to show BIA’s Radio Share of Wallet analysis, let’s now look at BIA’s estimates for markets 61-70 for 2021. 

The Academy of Radio Arts and Sciences of America has selected WRHU Radio Hofstra University to receive the 2021 World Radio Day Award. The honor commemorates World Radio Day, established by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and celebrated annually on February 13th.

The Star-Tribune is reporting that John Hanson has been let go by Entercom. Hanson stepped into the PD role at WCCO-AM in late 2018. He previously held the same role at Sports Radio KCSP-AM and 1660 The Score KWOD-AM in Kansas City.