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On November 15, the smartest and most influential minds in broadcast and advertising will gather at the Harvard Club in New York for Forecast 2018 to predict and set in motion radio’s trajectory for the coming year. If revenue generation is your goal for 2018, this is one gathering you cannot miss.

(By Georgia Beasley) We all know what is on everyone’s plate right now… BUDGETS. So I want to take this small window of opportunity that comes around once each year to discuss a topic you may not have considered: Allocating or shifting dollars in the budget to pay Millennials MORE MONEY.

DoSomething.org and Chevrolet have joined forces with beauty and fashion expert Amanda Steele for a game of "Ride & Seek." This latest campaign from DoSomething.org engages young people around the importance of seat belt usage, without losing their interest.

The 2017 American Music Awards will broadcast live from LA’s Microsoft Theater on Sunday, November 19, 2017, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. ET on ABC. Westwood One and Cumulus Media are the official national radio partners for the Awards

Brazil sports broadcaster FOX Sports Brasil, has selected an on-premise deployment version of the Veritone aiWARE platform to cognitively enrich and index both archived content and live streams. In Brazil the media and entertainment market is projected to reach $43.7 billion by 2021.

The multi-year deal will see AudioHQ become the exclusive re-seller – in the United States – of the streaming service’s audio advertising inventory. TuneIn serves more than 75 million active monthly users.

Have you ever wondered how people managed to insult each other before Twitter came along? Here's another example of how two adult public figures seem to revert back to their childhood name-calling days. This vulgar Twitter fight was between iHeartMedia San Antonio Sports talker Mike Taylor (pictured) and singer Richard Marx.

It appears things are starting to change even before the Entercom/CBS deal closes. Steve DiNardo, who was the Vice-President/Market Manager for the Entercom San Francisco cluster, is no longer with the company. At the time of his promotion in February of 2014, the company said, “After a nationwide search, the best choice was right in front of us."

On Wednesday, an appeals court in San Antonio agreed with a lower court ruling that an intercompany stock transfer was allowed under the terms iHeartMedia's loan agreements. Creditors were disputing whether the 2015 transfer was legal and may have even triggered a default. An iHeartmedia spokesperson told Radio Ink the company was pleased with the decision.

(By Wayne Ens) You've probably heard that “figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure.” Whenever I'm reviewing figures or “research,” I always look first at the source. With all due respect, research from any source has its built-in biases.