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(By Bob McCurdy) In today’s listening landscape, many stations are separated by only a tenth or two of a rating point, which greatly impacts rank and, in reality, statistically speaking, there’s little if any actual audience difference between these stations. The reason for this...

The seven-year NFL veteran has signed on with Sports Radio 104.3 The Fan (KKFN-FM) and will be offering insight and perspective every Sunday morning at 8 a.m. Franklin, who retired from football in May, was originally drafted in the second round by the Denver Broncos in 2011.

KLAL/Little Rock (Alice 107.7) morning show personalities Heather and Poolboy took home top honors for Radio Personalities at the 2018 Arkansas Times Best of Arkansas Awards.

Sports gambling info outfit VSiN have announced a partnership with KNBR 680/1050 that taps VSiN to deliver daily Bay Area-focused updates for the sports station. Beginning August 6, the station will run VSiN Action Updates covering how the sports betting markets are reacting to Bay Area sports teams, with one report in the 9 a.m. PT hour and another in the 5 p.m. PT hour each weekday.

The net revenue increase was $600K (1%) in Q2 for Beasley Media Group. Wilmington, Philadelphia, Augusta, Boca, and Boston were all called out as high-performing markets. Consumer services was Beasley's number one category in the quarter, followed by retail (which was down) and automotive (which was up). What about Beasley's digital revenue?

Milwaukee and Tulsa have been sold, netting the company $28 million so far and more announcements are coming soon, according to Scripps executives. Scripps has 27 more radio stations it plans to unload, and during a conference call Friday Local Media President Brian Lawlor said, "We are well on our way to divesting our radio group."

Scripps uses both Midroll and Stitcher to push out podcasting programming and the company says revenue is up 50% over last year in that division, including money from Proctor & Gamble in Q2. Podcast subscription revenue is also growing with dozens of original shows driving the growth.

Our thanks to JazzRadio CEO Julian Allitt in Germany for sending in this international advertiser success story. JazzRadio Berlin has a bi-weekly cume of 528,000 listeners and, because the station is blockaded by bigger radio groups to stop them from getting national advertising, local and regional advertising clients are very important. Check out what they've done with The Ellington Hotel. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media).

Digital Audio Ad Platform DAX (which stands for Digital Audio Exchange) has launched a sales division in the US. Ryan Rose will lead the new U.S. office. As Director of Sales & Partnership Development, Rose focus on the on-demand and podcast spaces.

Perry Stone has been appointed the new Operations Manager for Talk Station WMAY-AM/FM and Rock Station, WQLZ-FM in Springfield Illinois. He'll also host afternoons on WQLZ-FM. Perry comes to Mid-West from Charlottesville Virginia where he was the Operations Manager for Saga's WWWV-FM an WINA-AM/FM.