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It’s Women’s History Month and FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel interviewed Cecilia Munoz -- currently Vice President of Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives at New America -- on her podcast Broadband Conversations.

The New York Post does a nice piece on how Wayne Randazzo worked his way up to the broadcast booth for The New York Mets. It all started out in Nashville for Randazzo, at The Opreyland Hotel.

Radio never really gets a mention during Nielsen earnings calls and maybe that's a good thing. As the company continues to look for a buyer, the ratings firm reported another bad revenue quarter with Q4 2018 revenue down nearly 6% to $1.66 billion.

(By John Garziglia) Finally, the FCC has published in the Federal Register the FCC’s Quadrennial Review Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. This sets the comment and reply comment dates, comments being due April 29th and and reply comments due May 29th.

Bill Clark — former President of Shamrock Broadcasting and Chairman of Chancellor Broadcasting — is to receive the 2019 Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award.

Hanks was part of The Dean and Rog Show on CMG's KGLK-FM for 17 years as co-host, news anchor, and producer. Hanks posted a farewell on her Facebook page which had nearly 300 comments from listeners as of Thursday night.

After 12 years with Broadway Media's Salt Lake City cluster, Justin Taylor is now Ops Manager for Cumulus Oxnard-Ventura, CA, and Program Director of Country station 100.7 KHAY-FM.

As the Department of Justice examines the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees, BMI CEO Mike O'Neill and ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Mathews have penned a joint letter that was distributed to the media, Thursday. They say modifying or sunsetting the decrees would have far-reaching implications.

John Batchelor — host of the syndicated John Batchelor Show, originating from 770-AM WABC in New York — was diagnosed in October 2018 with a malignant tumor at the base of his tongue that threatened his ability to speak on-air. But Batchelor had other plans.

Broadcast Attorney John Garziglia's number one issue from his November 23, 2017 Radio Ink column entitled “10 Radio Legal/Regulatory Issues for the Next 10 Years” was “Music Rights Issues." In light of the BMI/ASCAP Joint letter distributed Thursday, we reached out to John to get his perspective on how this issue impacts you and your radio station.