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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioners Michael O'Rielly, Brendan Carr and Jessica Rosenworcel will participate in four separate sessions at NAB Show, April 7-12 in Las Vegas.

iHeartMedia, which on March 15 announced it had reached an agreement with lenders to restructure its balance sheet, has about 17,000 employees working at 850 radio stations. With so many news outlets available today, and so may ways to receive that news instantly, it can be a challenge to keep all those people motivated if they are being fed misinformation. That's where CEO Bob Pittman and CFO Richard Bressler come in.

Robbins will have been in the industry for 40 years this May — and that in itself is a miracle. Two weeks after signing a syndication deal, Robbins suffered a heart attack. It was the first of three, necessitating five bypass surgeries.

Hannah Rae is the new producer and co-host of The Jim Brickman Show. A millennial raised on technology, she brings a youthful viewpoint to the on-air team of award-winning songwriter and best-selling solo pianist Brickman.

Emmis' NewsRadio KLBJ in Austin was right in the middle of the action, right on top of the story in Austin, as Mark Anthony Conditt went on his bombing spree in and around Austin. We reached out to KLBJ Program Director Mark Caesar and News Director Todd Jeffries to get a glimpse of how the station followed the event that seemed to be changing by the minute over a three-week period.

Sunday Night Slow Jams has expanded to 150 total affiliates worldwide. The 150th affiliate is KNEX-FM in Laredo, TX. The number one weekend radio show in America is available through three different formats: Rhythm/Urban, Top 40/Mainstream, and Throwback.

And the reason Cumulus requested more time was to keep others away who may be thinking about filing a competing plan to restructure Cumulus, muddying up the progress made so far.

If you're a long-time listener to Howard Stern, you know Stern has said that Imus was pretty mean to him when they worked together at WNBC in New York, not the other way around.

Jeff Warshaw continues to sell stations. Is he banking cash just in case a few stations come available at the end of this year? On Thursday, Townsquare announced it was buying Connoisseur's three New Jersey stations, WPST-FM 94.5, WNJE-AM 920, and WCHR-AM 1040 for $17 million. In January, Connoisseur sold five stations in Connecticut for $8 million.

(By Lisa Thal) A famous phrase in the American vernacular, especially when it comes to professional sports, is “in the zone.” In sales, we too experience those “in the zone” moments, mainly when three particular conditions are in play...