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Now that Taylor Swift has gone public with her feelings about politics, what does that mean for her music being played on the radio. You probably recall how the Dixie Chicks received the cold shoulder from radio when Natalie Maines took a very public shot at President Bush in the lead up to the Iraq war back in 2003.

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The Media Bureau will be hosting a free webinar, October 30th, to provide information about the Commission’s recently implemented radio broadcast incubator program.

More from the big New York City gala hosted by Sun Broadcast Group. SBG also unveiled a new logo as well their 2019 theme “Shine On” as they prepare to celebrate their 10th anniversary next month.

Stations can air Westwood One’s two-hour A Salute to Our Military Veterans any time on Saturday, November 10 through Monday, November 12, 2018, between 6:00 a.m. and 12 midnight. For more information, contact [email protected].

After airing over 53,000 commercials on radio stations across the country last week, the big-box home improvement chain is back on top of the Media Monitors weekly chart of radio advertisers. Who else made the top five last week?

As Executive Producer of the 4th annual Carney Awards, Elvis Duran is inviting all his radio industry friends to attend the star-studded event that honors exemplary character actors on Oct. 28 at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

Our thanks to Kate Lattimer-Maguire, Senior Account Executive for Alpha Media in Lincoln, for sharing this advertiser success story with us this week. Creative ideas Kate put in front of a client have resulted in a lucrative annual partnership for that client and for Kate's station. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

Cumulus has appointed Jack Swanson PD for KGO and KSFO in San Francisco. The legendary San Francisco programmer returns to the stations he helped build, as former PD of KGO and KSFO, where he led programming from 1994 until 2011. 

Thanks to the folks at Sun Broadcast Group for sharing this photo from last Friday night. The organization is welcoming Alfonso Ribeiro, Michael Baisden and Jim Brickman to the SBG Family in 2019. Pictured here with Ribeiro and Baisden are Jay Bailey and Julio Aponte of Sun. The Sun Up Front party was held at The Rooftop Bar in New York City.