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(By Paul Weyland) Have you ever hosted a party and later had to deal with the last person to leave? I have. Not pleasant. You’re worn out and it’s time to get back to work and clean up, but that person is still there, taking up space and not helping.

(By Bob McCurdy) WARC last week had another interesting article worthy of note, titled "Advertisers Are Shouting at an Audience Who Can’t Hear."

Broadcast attorney David Oxenford has written extensively about legal issues for broadcasters thinking about getting into podcasting. In his latest blog Oxenford takes on another legal issue involving podcasting that's come up in the news lately.

Radioline and Audioburst have announced that Audioburst’s AI-based listening and indexing technology will be incorporated into Radioline, which currently hosts more than 70,000 radio stations and podcasts from around the world.

The New York Post is reporting that the team is about to switch affiliates in New York City from Cumulus owned WOR-AM to Entercom's WCBS-AM starting with the 2019 season.

Vermont Association of Broadcasters President Wally Caswell has informed Radio Ink that longtime Executive Director Jim Condon has died after a battle with esophageal cancer.

The Carr fire in California recently destroyed a transmitter at NPR-affiliate KFPR in Redding and the station has been off the air for about a month now. North State Public Radio which includes KCHO 91.7 in Chico and KFPR 88.9 in Redding has studios in the Northern California cities of Redding and Chico.

101.9fm THE MIX/WTMX Chicago raised $1,042,678 for the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago during its 19th annual fundraising efforts.

St. Louis’ Z107.7 has named Kristie Graybill morning show co-host for Jordan and Kristie in the Morning, effective August 27. Graybill will be joining co-host Jordan DeSocio to deliver the latest pop music and pop culture news every weekday morning, 5 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Tom Langmyer ran WTMJ (AM and FM) and WKTI-FM for the last 5 years. On Thursday he posted to Facebook that once the sale of the Scripps stations to Good Karma Broadcasting closes he'll be moving on. Steve Wexler, who now runs the radio division for Scripps, will be taking over.