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Bob Papper, Professor Emeritus at Hofstra is out with his annual report on radio news department salaries. Papper reports that news salaries at radio stations increased more slowly in the last year, but for the second year in a row, overall radio news salaries have exceeded inflation in a five-year comparison.

(By Rick Fink) Regardless of what part of the country you live in or what type of business you run, if you ask a business owner today what the most difficult thing about running a company is, they will tell you it's finding good employees. Here are some tips to give you an edge in the marketplace.

Spanish-language radio continues to boom. The latest news is the launch of the weekly syndicated radio and podcast show Neteando with Kate and Jessica. Neteando means “real Ttlk.”

The Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters’ Board of Directors has elected sports broadcaster, innovator, and educator Al Eschbach (pictured), along with broadcaster and industry advocate Vance Harrison.

On Wednesday morning iHeartMedia filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list its Class "A" common shares. iHeart is exiting from bankruptcy with half the debt it had just over one year ago.

SOS Radio/Las Vegas has hired Chalmer Harper as its new Music Director. Chalmer has been General Manager of KWND/KWFC in Springfield for the past decade. 

Joe Browning is the new Operations Manager for Cumulus’ four-station cluster in Melbourne, FL. You can tack onto that the titles of Program Director and afternoon host at WAOA in Melbourne.

On Tuesday Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti surprised iHeartMedia's Thea Mitchem. Mitchem will be on the cover of our Most Influential Women in Radio issue (5/27). Mitchem is EVP of Programming for iHeart's Northeast Region and PD for WWPR-FM in New York City. We have video.

That's what the iHeartMedia CEO told NBC News Senior Media Editor Claire Atkinson in an interview Tuesday. And, Pittman said, people don’t quite appreciate the nuance of it. So he explained that nuance.

More changes at Alpha Media. After nearly a decade in the position, Executive Vice President Scott Mahalick is leaving the company. His final day is Monday. Mahalick has been on Radio Ink's Top Leader's List for the past several years.