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Country station 101.7 The Bull in Boston raised $123,000 to benefit St. Jude Children's Hospital with help from Lady Antebellum. An Intimate Evening with Lady Antebellum, an exclusive fundraising event at the Chevalier Theatre, featured a 1-hour acoustic concert from the group with all proceeds given to St. Jude.

Can Netflix become HBO before HBO becomes Netflix? And can radio survive without passion? Tom Asacker and media strategist Mark Ramsey will discuss.

(By Ronald Robinson) What is it going to take to, primarily, get radio back on the rails? An abrupt, industry-wide crash might be motivating.

Detroit’s Oldies 94.7 HD2 will transform into 24/7 Christmas music, beginning at midnight on Thursday, November 1. The first song that will be played on the air will be the holiday classic “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot like Christmas” by Johnny Mathis.

This month, the American Urban Radio Networks and the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce met with representatives from the Hetrick-Martin Institute to present a $10,000 donation for the HMI After-School Youth Center.

According to Triton's July listening ranker, total weekday listening to online audio remains steady at 5.65 million in the U.S. All measured clients within the U.S. reported a total of 5,650,930 Average Active Sessions during the Monday through Friday 6:00am to 8:00pm daypart.

At the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Coordinating Center for Communications and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the FCC has deactivated its Disaster Information Reporting System for Hurricane Michael.

Mexican broadcast company Grupo ACIR and iHeartMedia have entered into a partnership that will bring iHeartRadio to listeners across Mexico. iHeartRadio México is available now in beta, with the official launch November 3 at the iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina.

And here's yet another way for consumers to listen to audio. Traffic app Waze has released a beta version of the Waze Audio Player. The player was inspired by feedback from its first audio integration with Spotify in 2017.

Galaxy Media has promoted Carrie J. Wojtaszek to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer. Wojtaszek, a 10-year veteran of Galaxy, has served as the General Manager of Galaxy Events since 2013.