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To help AMs and FMs on their path to success, Radio Ink presents the latest in a series of short podcasts focused on Hispanic radio in advance of the 2018 Hispanic Radio Conference, March 13-14 in Miami. In our second installment, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam Jacobson chats with Francisco Montero, co-Managing Partner of Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, on the importance of AM and FM radio during an emergency.

Thanks to Joanna Martens from The Kim Komando Show for sharing this advertiser success story with us from Austin, Texas, where the syndicated tech guru helped Gregg Burger and his business Precision Camera bring many new customers through the door and ring the cash register. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

The fourth annual WDAS Women of Excellence Luncheon will take place on Saturday, March 31, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Sheraton Downtown Philadelphia Hotel. Among those to be honored is broadcaster Rev. Louise Bishop. 105.3 WDAS FM’s on-air personalities Patty Jackson, Frankie Darcell, Mimi Brown, and Loraine Ballard Morrill will host the event.

Alpha Media, Peoria has announced that Tino Cochino will air weeknights, 6-10 p.m. on Throwback station G 102.3 (WNGY/Peoria).

Fashion designer and lifestyle brand creator Norma Kamali will host a one-hour talk show exclusively on SiriusXM's Stars channel. With Norma Kamali will feature the designer, along with celebrity guests, thought leaders and influencers, discussing a wide range of topics.

iHeartCommunications and its lenders have agreed to a 72-hour extension as they continue talks to restructure the company's $20 Billion in debt. Lenders and iHeart have signed a Forbearance Agreement, which means lenders will not exercise their right to pursue a default, at least through Wednesday, on iHeart's missed $106 million interest payment.

The prediction by multiple print publications that iHeart would file for bankruptcy this past weekend turned out to be wrong. As of this morning, there has been no such filing and late on Friday, iHeart had filed a document that 'reflects the Company’s attempt to harmonize the views that it has received directly from the various groups of noteholders, lenders and the company’s equity holders."

A book author says he paid Sid Rosenberg $5,000 cash to get him an interview with Geraldo Rivera on WABC in New York. Joseph DeBlasi says he gave Rosenberg the money back in 2014. Rosenberg now co-hosts the 9A-Noon slot on WABC in New York. He also makes appearances on Imus in The Morning. Back in 2014 he worked for WFAN.

(By Bob McCurdy) One of the best investments I made in my career, long ago, was hiring a college professor to tutor me regarding the “ins” and “outs” of statistics. Early on I learned that in those days, Arbitron, and now Nielsen, audience “estimates” are just that, “estimates."

One of the worst kept secrets in radio was the fact that Entercom was gearing up to flip a station in San Diego that would focus on sports and carry the San Diego Padres. That flip took place on Friday as the company dumped The "Energy" format for "97.3 The Machine, Talk that Rocks, in San Diego."