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The University of Miami Athletics and Miami’s Sports Radio 560 announced Thursday that they have entered into a multi-year extension for the station to remain the flagship radio home of Miami Hurricanes games. The station has been a broadcast partner since the 1999 NCAA football season.

(By John Garziglia) In a fact pattern worthy of a law school exam question, an IRS employee calls the Howard Stern Show and is put on hold. The IRS employee on a different line takes a call from a taxpayer while on hold with Howard. The Stern Show picks up, hears the IRS employee talking with the taxpayer and puts the conversation on the air live. The law school question is … in how many ways might the Howard Stern Show be civilly and criminally liable?

It was back in December that Westwood One announced Jon Grayson's syndicated show Overnight America would be discontinued. Grayson kept his overnight shift at KMOX. The station has confirmed that Grayson is no longer at KMOX. So where is he headed?

Danni Starr is returning to DC radio to co-host The Fam in The Morning on the Radio One station. Starr will join QuickSilva behind the mic, weekdays 6-10 a.m., starting February 21. QuickSilva and Danni will be heard throughout the DMV (Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia) region.

Kathy Romano will debut her new Sunday morning show, Her Story, on 95.7 BEN FM, Philadelphia, Sunday February 19 at 7:30 a.m.  The radio vet will continue her role on BEN FM’s sister station 93.3 WMMR as co-host of the Preston & Steve Show.

The final-round judging panel for the 26th Annual Radio Mercury Awards has been announced. The jury, drawn together with the help of Chief Judge Mark Gross, founder and creative director, Highdive Advertising, comprises thought leaders from across the country, representing all size markets and diverse audiences for some of radio's top spending advertising clients.

The Alliance for Women in Media and its Foundation announced its 2017 National Board of Directors this week, which includes Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti as a Director-at-Large. The Board gathered in Washington, D.C., which included several days of judging for the 42nd Annual Gracie Awards. Here are the new board members...

And the killing took place while host Luis Manuel Medina was streaming his show live on Facebook. Gunman killed Medina and radio station director Leonidas Martínez. Secretary Dayana García is in a serious condition after being shot in the stomach.

Those were the words from CBS Corp's COO Joe Ianniello Wednesday night on the CBS Q4 earnings call. Ianniello said the new combined radio business will benefit from increased scale, stronger cash flow, and real operational synergies which should drive higher profitability and clearly be the best capitalized radio company in the industry.

What if radio produced a video this professional and every station in America pushed it out via social media? Or a new one every month with different on-air talent and successful advertisers and happy listeners. Pretty powerful. Here's what Spotify is doing to promote The Power of Audio..