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Skyview Networks COO Steve Jones will moderate a discussion with New York Times Business Editor Ellen Pollack tonight from 7-9PM at Adelphi University. The live streamed event is called Keeping Up With The Times. Jones is an Adelphi graduate.

The podcast universe keeps expanding. This time it’s a new program narrated and researched by author James Andrew Miller. Origins, the podcast will explore beginnings -- whether from the worlds of television, movies, sports, music, business, or human relationships -- to explain how greatness starts and how critical happenings come to be.

Community Broadcasters of Florence recently concluded its annual Children’s Miracle Network Radiothon with 99.3 The Cat, Live 95.3, Almighty 105.1, and 93.7 Frank FM breaking previous donation records and directly benefiting South Carolina's McLeod Children’s Hospital.

(By Randy Lane) We are largely defined by our habits. A few positive keystone habits have a ripple effect on several others. Peter Lassally has been Executive Producer for Johnny Carson, David Letterman, and Craig Ferguson. After each show, Lassally made it a habit to sit down with these iconic hosts and go through an exercise that we call The Post Show Review.

Five House members and another Senator have joined as cosponsors of the resolution opposing "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local broadcast radio stations. The Local Radio Freedom Act now has 211 cosponsors in the House and 24 in the Senate.

(By Mike McVay) Fathers’ Day was this past weekend. It gave me a moment to reflect on the lessons I have learned from my parents, but also the lessons I have learned from my children.

Envision’s syndicated country show The Live Ride is offering stations a two-hour special of all-live country Christmas music performances for broadcast for the week before, and through, Christmas Day, at no cost. 

WayFM content leader Faron Dice has been promoted. The Chief Content Officer is moving up to VP of Ministry where he will focus solely on outreach initiatives.

Minnesota Public Radio has named Julian Green as Content Director for The Current’s Urban Alternative Project. Prior to joining The Current in June 2021, Green was Program Director at Radio K-KUOM, a student-run radio station at the University of Minnesota.

CBS' WJFK-FM "The Fan" and WFED-AM in Washington, DC have won the right to broadcast the NHL team's games. Capitals play-by-play announcer John Walton will return for his seventh season and former Capital Ken Sabourin enters his 15th season as analyst. Last year Caps games were heard on Hubbard's WFED-AM. They were on The Fan for years before last year.