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(By Jay Stevens) When was the last time you had great customer service, at any business, where it was so good you had to tell your friends and maybe you even flagged down the manager to alert them? If you're like most of us, you really have to think about it.

iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman and COO Rich Bressler were in Las Vegas, Wednesday, for a financial conference hosted by Wells Fargo. With a much lighter debt load post-bankruptcy and a multi-platform media company to brag about, Pittman and Bressler were more than happy to pitch investors on the scale of iHeart and the power of radio.

Wesleyan University's community radio station, WESU-FM, will wrap up a year-long anniversary celebration with a community event Sunday, December 8. The Free Form Jubilee will feature eclectic music, poetry, speakers, and food.

Galaxy Media Partners and Syracuse University are combining for a new 24/7 video streaming network, Twitch.TV/CuseSportsTalk. The network will give fans a chance to talk SU sports regardless of their location.

On Giving Tuesday, December 3, Bonneville’s 96.5 KOIT/San Francisco hosted their 2nd annual Cares For Kids Radiothon benefiting UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, part of the Children’s Miracle Network.

The WSOY 18th Annual Community Food Drive in early October raised over 1.7 million pounds of food in just one day. The drive culminated in Decatur, IL, Tuesday, with the presentation of checks to local schools who won school-based contests.

SB Nation Radio sports network has a brand new mid-morning program debuting in January. Above it All with Candace Cooper and Tiffany Marshall is set to shake up the sports radio airwaves.

This week with the launch of El Washington Post, the newspaper now has 18 podcasts on its website for readers to consume. We decided to do a little digging about how commiited newspapers are to the audio space and let you decide if it's something you should worry about.

FOX News Radio content will now be available 24/7 on RADIO.COM, across its portfolio of 235 stations.

New iHeartRadio Original true-crime podcast Disorganized Crime, looks at the history of the illegal drug culture of the 1970s and 80s in California through the eyes of Rainbow Valentine, the child of the decades’ biggest drug dealers.