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Do you know someone who is doing great work in Hispanic radio? Nominations are now open for the Medallas de Cortez awards, which are given for excellence in Hispanic radio. This is the 10th year for the awards. Make your nominations HERE.

To learn why Lazer Broadcasting is bringing its take on regional Mexican programming to the nation, and how both Envision and SuiteRadio are involved, Josh Mednick sat down with RBR+TVBR Editor Adam Jacobson in this week's Hispanic Radio Podcast.

Bold Gold Media Group station listeners in the Pocono Lake/Wilkes Barre-Scranton region of Pennsylvania filled trucks with toys and raised thousands of dollars for charities December 19.

Noble Financial Director of Research Michael Kupinski has upgraded the company from market perform to outperform. He believes the stock could go as high as $14.00. Cumulus closed at $10.71 Tuesday. In a note to investors this week Kupinski highlighted Cumulus' restructured debt, and advertiser guarantees as reasons for his upgrade.

Paul Rothfuss has been named Market President for iHeart's 5-station cluster in the Roanoke-Lynchburg market.

In Triton Digital's Webcast Metric data from September, stations streaming the News/Talk format saw a 36% increase on the day the Brett Kavanaugh hearing took place (Thursday, September 27).

(By Deborah Parenti) Over my years of creating and managing sales structures, as well as coaching sales teams, I was fortunate enough to be exposed to a lot of ideas and time-honored concepts. Here are a few that might help kick-start a day, a week, a month, or a year.

(By Lisa Thal) As 2018 ends, we need to ask ourselves the following question: “How was my year?” Were you happy with your performance? Now is the time to get real with yourself and up your game, because in sales, we must compete at a high level every day to win the business.

Here's a great example of how the radio industry is crossing over into podcasting to create compelling new content, generate non-traditional revenue, and extend their brands.

The new service is called "0 to 3 Talent Bank" and focuses on entry-level jobseekers. It serves those with less than three years' professional experience, such as recent graduates and those who have work experience outside the media industry.