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(By John Garziglia) Alex Jones, a self-described libertarian and paleoconservative and publisher of the infowars.com website, is broadcast on 114 radio stations. Recently, his content was removed by YouTube, Facebook and Apple. Is there a case to be made that radio stations should likewise question his broadcast content?

Our thanks to Chris Ganoudis, General Manager for JVC Media in Orlando, for sharing his Pizza Hut success story with us. It's great to see a hugely successful national chain with an amazingly strong local relationship. Meghan Strongrich is the Marketing Director for the store with whom JVC works closely in that market. In all, Meghan is responsible for the marketing for over 130 Pizza Hut locations, which makes the relationship between the two organizations even more special. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media).

(By Bob McCurdy) As in business, our personal brand is the single most important factor that determines our income and our success, often insulating us against business factors beyond our control. So as salespeople, it’s incredibly important that we nurture, cultivate, guard, and “market” our brand to our clients.

(By Randy Lane) I joined Don Anthony to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Morning Show Boot Camp, Thursday and Friday, at the Grand Sheraton in Chicago. I was honored to host “30 Years of Top Takeaways from MSBC” with a panel of five of the top morning show personalities in radio. Here are a few highlights...

Thanks to Scott Herold from SOS Radio in Las Vegas for sharing this great radio story with us. There are 6000 homeless or displaced high school students in the valley. SOS Radio partnered with Project 150 to help homeless teens start the school year strong. The SOS studios were stacked wall to wall with noodles. This is 1200 of the 4200 cases collected. Why noodles? Here's why..

(By Ronald Robinson) So, it should come as no surprise to thoughtful readers that many of us from the Great White North are shocked and disappointed at the depth to which our friends in radio are allowing the degradation of those (mostly) shared beliefs and values, and the speed at which this disassembly process of our industry is occurring.

Angela Yee’s popular book club, Kickin’ It from The Stoop (#KIFTS), continues to grow with a new in-store display at Barnes & Noble’s flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City.  Hosted by The Breakfast Club personality, along with friends Tasha Hilton and Tony Forte, #KIFTS meets monthly at WOODStack Ivy in Brooklyn.

ABC Radio and Skyview Networks recently partnered in a joint syndication effort.  Announced lastweek was the syndication of The Dana Cortez Morning Show. The collaboration is the first result of ABC Radio’s and Skyview Networks’ joint syndication and sales initiative announced April 2018.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is partnering with SiriusXM for the launch of The Billy Graham Channel. The channel will be headlined by the inspiring messages of the late, world-renowned Christian evangelist and will feature sermons from his many years in ministry.

Cumulus and TuneIn announced Thursday that the two sides have signed a new multi-year contract that will keep Cumulus' 441 stations on the streaming app. TuneIn will also carry all of Cumulus' podcasts from the Westwood One Podcast Network. That's good news for TuneIn, which lost all Entercom stations in June when they moved over to Radio.com exclusively.