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The Country Radio Seminar begins this week in Nashville and the event will feature four mentoring events to kick off Thursday and Friday. Many of Radio Ink's Top Country PD's will be part of the Programming Mentoring breakfast, which you can register for HERE.

In partnership with CLNS Media, Josh Lewin is launching The Throwback League which will be a simulated March Madness-style tournament pitting the 48 best teams from 1974-2006.

At Podcast Movement's Evolution last week, Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez announced a new a new not-for-profit organization of independent podcasters called The Podcast Academy. Notably not in the group that made the announcement with Lopez were iHeartMedia, Entercom or any other radio company.

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(By Randy Lane) The most crucial question about your brand today is, what makes you different?

(By Bob McCurdy) What is better than being common, normal, ordinary, regular, similar, standard, unexceptional, un-noteworthy, or usual? It’s being “unusual.” Here are some tips on being unusual in a good way, and becoming a better salesperson.

Galaxy Media was created by Pam and Ed Levine on February 12, 1990. The company's original studio for WKLL-FM, was located in the back of a diner in Frankfort, NY.

And both sides are claiming a win after the ruling. Federal Judge Terry Hatter has denied the RMLC's attempt to dismiss its case against GMR, which GMR says is a major blow to radio. But the RMLC says the big news here is that the court agreed that if RMLC can prove the facts alleged then GMR is an illegal cartel.

DMR/Interactive has named Tony Bannon, VP/Marketing Strategy. Bannon joins DMR/Interactive from Cumulus Cincinnati where he worked in sales. He also spent over a decade as a PD and on the air in Illinois and Indiana.

John Thomas, who was diagnosed with a rare form of tissue cancer in October of 2013, has released a podcast called Cancer and Chill. Thomas has chronicled every step of his fight and decided to launch this podcast as a way to walk alongside those who have cancer in their lives.