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NABEF’s Broadcast Leadership Training class graduated this month following a 10-month executive MBA-style program that teaches the fundamentals of purchasing, owning, operating, and managing radio and television stations.

To be sure, radio’s ownership and leadership can trot out a litany of complaints against a number of outside and inside influences, including government regulations, other media that enjoy “unfair” advantages, “unreasonable” demands from advertisers and agencies, and the machinations of unscrupulous competitors. But are they hitting the target?

(By Bob McCurdy) To some the following might come off as heresy. Let’s peel back the onion on an ad metric that flows off our tongues daily. It’s an important metric in our industry as it guides commercial scheduling, as well as the way we position our medium to advertisers and agencies.

(By Jeff McHugh, Stephanie Winans, Stan Main, John Silliman Dodge) On-air personalities have a calendar full of appearances, promotions, and events in the summer months. Promotions and events are opportunities for you to make new fans and to solidify relationships with old fans and clients. Here are some important tips.

Are smartphones killing websites? A recent Bloomberg article that asserted: "Smartphones are doing to websites what Amazon did to the mall." It's an interesting observation and one that Mark Ramsey and Tom Asacker really dig into.

Voting results for the 2018 National Radio Hall of Fame’s 24 nominations in six categories are in. Four of the categories were decided by a voting participant panel comprised of nearly 1,000 industry professionals. The other two categories were voted on by the public; and there was an unprecedented level of listener participation. Here are the inductees...

Beasley Media Group Philadelphia employees rolled up their sleeves during the cluster’s recent Beasley Best “Day of Caring” event to lend a helping hand to the City of Philadelphia Community Life Improvement Program.

Country station KYGO/Denver has signed morning host Tracy Dixon to a multi-year contract extension. Dixon has been a part of KYGO mornings for five years and has co-hosted with Guy David the past 14 months as Tracy & Guy in the Morning. 

KKSW 105.9 KISS/Lawrence, KS, has added Joshua James to their on-air lineup as midday host — Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. James has worked in the Kansas City market since 2006.

Oliviero was one of the executives who stayed on with Entercom following the merger with CBS Radio. At CBS Oliviero Executive VP of Programming. He retained that title upon completion of the merger. Oliviero, who's been on Radio Ink's Top 20 Leaders List for the past two years, says it's time to move on.