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Emmy Award-winning “Voice of the Yankees” and drive-time host on ESPN NY 98.7 FM Radio, Michael Kay, will become the first Fordham University alumnus to receive the Vin Scully Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting from the university's WFUV Radio.

After 13 years as PD and afternoon drive host at WXLC in Northern Chicago, Haynes Johns and Alpha Media have parted ways. Before WXLC, Johns was with WNND in Columbus for six years as APD/MD and afternoon drive host. He's also worked in Cincinnati, Dayton, and Jackson, MS.

What do you do when your station promotion attracts 20,000 attendees, generates incredible buzz and brings in serious revenue? You cancel it, of course. Here's why Entercom ending the event was exactly the right thing to do.

Saga Communications has entered into an agreement to purchase WOGK(FM), WNDT(FM), WNDD(FM), and WNDN(FM) from Ocala Broadcasting Corporation. All the stations serve the Gainesville-Ocala, Florida, radio market. The price was just over $9 million.

Country station 101.7 The Bull in Boston raised $123,000 to benefit St. Jude Children's Hospital with help from Lady Antebellum. An Intimate Evening with Lady Antebellum, an exclusive fundraising event at the Chevalier Theatre, featured a 1-hour acoustic concert from the group with all proceeds given to St. Jude.

Can Netflix become HBO before HBO becomes Netflix? And can radio survive without passion? Tom Asacker and media strategist Mark Ramsey will discuss.

(By Ronald Robinson) What is it going to take to, primarily, get radio back on the rails? An abrupt, industry-wide crash might be motivating.

Detroit’s Oldies 94.7 HD2 will transform into 24/7 Christmas music, beginning at midnight on Thursday, November 1. The first song that will be played on the air will be the holiday classic “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot like Christmas” by Johnny Mathis.

This month, the American Urban Radio Networks and the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce met with representatives from the Hetrick-Martin Institute to present a $10,000 donation for the HMI After-School Youth Center.

According to Triton's July listening ranker, total weekday listening to online audio remains steady at 5.65 million in the U.S. All measured clients within the U.S. reported a total of 5,650,930 Average Active Sessions during the Monday through Friday 6:00am to 8:00pm daypart.