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Legendary singer/songwriter Paul Anka was honored at the 71st Annual BMI/NAB Dinner held Tuesday night in Las Vegas. Anka received the BMI Board of Directors Award for his impact on contemporary music. 

WXMX-FM/Memphis has locked down the services of Danni Bruns with a new multi-year deal. Bruns will be Operations Manager of Cumulus Memphis’ four-station cluster as well as PD and afternoon drive co-host of the Rock-formatted WXMX.

That’s the name of the article in D Magazine highlighting the long and successful career of the Cumulus Dallas Market Manager. Writer Tom Stephenson calls Bennett “an innovative programmer with a keen eye for talent who’s turned Dallas into Cumulus Media's strongest market.” Read the article HERE.

She’s not only the founder of Presslaff Interactive, Ruth Presslaff is one of the nicest people in the media business. Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti surprised Presslaff this week at an MIW function at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. Presslaff has been chosen as Radio Ink’s 2019 MIW Legend. Watch the video...

A presentation made by The University of Florida and Futuri Media at the NAB Show on Tuesday stated that YouTube is the number one destination for podcast consumption.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has appointed Ed Razzano to the position of Senior Vice President, Administration Services. Razzano has more than 20 years’ experience with music rights.

On Tuesday afternoon, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai addressed the topic of FM-band interference, which ramped up when the Commission opened the floodgates to FM translators. Pai said just this week he circulated a draft order to the other Commissioners that includes new rules to address the interference issue and those rules will be voted on at the Commission’s May meeting.

That’s what you can expect in September when the Radio Show takes place in Dallas, according to an announcement made at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Tuesday. This new logo was also unveiled.

Tammy Ragusa has returned to Premiere Networks as a writer and producer for the company’s Country radio prep team, having previously been at Premiere 2006-2012. She will be based Nashville.

Those are the words of Jeff Greenfield, the COO and co-founder of C3 metrics, an attribution platform that measures the impact of media and demonstrates that impact to advertisers.