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On December 17, Radio Ink will release its seventh annual Top Local Sports Talkers in America list. Every year, our editorial board ranks the best of the best in local Sports Talk. Your deadline to nominate is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Make your nomination HERE.

It's election time and that means Bobby Baker's phone is probably ringing off the hook. Baker is the Assistant Division Chief of the Policy Division in the FCC's Media Bureau. Equal time, lowest unit rates, paperwork requirements, and election law are all discussed in the latest FCC podcast HERE.

The first iHeartRadio Podcast Awards will be held at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles Friday, January 18, 2019 at 8 p.m. Listeners will vote for their favorite podcasts online in 22 categories.

Growing your audio audience and revenue are not a given. You have to know what you’re doing, what you’re up against, and how to make the most of the expanding options. At Forecast 2019 next month, if you attend, you WILL find out how to grow your audience and revenue.

Media Monitors says GEICO ran 50,278 commercials on radio stations across the country last week and that was good enough for the top spot on their list.

On Monday morning, the National Association of Broadcasters and the NAB Education Foundation unveiled an online toolkit to help journalists cover sensitive stories involving religion as part of the “Awareness in Reporting” initiative.

Pulse FM 96.9 & 102.5 (WPLW-WWPL/Durham) hosted Carolina Cares: A Benefit Concert, featuring national recording artists Jake Miller, MKTO, AJ Mitchell, and Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine at the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, NC, Saturday night.

Listeners of The New 98.9 The Bull (KNUC/Seattle) were so excited to purchase a painting by Claire Beverly’s wife Shar, it lead to Tim, Red and Claire in the Morning raising over $2,000 for the Auburn Valley Humane Society in Auburn, WA.

Grammy award-winning rock band Train will perform live at the Association of National Advertisers Masters of Marketing Conference immediately following the conference welcome dinner on Wednesday, October 24, in Orlando, Florida.

NASH FM 103.3 (Nashville) is adding Tyler Reese as Assistant Program Director and midday host (10 a.m.-3 p.m.), as well as Kelly Bradshaw-Brock as host for afternoon drive (3 p.m.-7 p.m.).