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Who are the champs right now? The challengers? The “Internet” aggregators? And why isn’t Netflix one of them? And what media stocks should investors own in 2018? Tom Asacker and Mark Ramsey will discuss, drawing from an article by Laura Martin.

105.7 MAX FM has launched Max Cares – Taking Care of San Diego Together, a media outreach program that brings one local charity a month to the forefront with the goal of educating the community about the organization and the work they do in the community.

The inaugural Hope for the Hills Radiothon for LifeScape raised $38,217 to help children with disabilities. Haugo Broadcasting stations KICK 104, Hits 102.7, 95.1 KSKY, and ESPN Rapid City 1340 AM/105.7 FM broadcast the radiothon from LifeScape in Rapid City for two days, Dec. 7-8, 2017.

Roy Spencer (pictured) started his company, Perma-Seal Basement Systems, four decades ago from the back of his pick-up truck. He had that one vehicle, no employees, and only needed to support and feed himself. In 2018, Perma-Seal has three offices and 170 employees in the Chicagoland area. A big reason for his success is he's been a consistent advertiser on Chicago's radio stations. Here's Roy's story (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

Chelsea Briggs will join Edgar Sotelo and Brian Moote as co-host for the new morning show on 97.1 AMP Radio (KAMP-FM) in Los Angeles, effective February 2018. Briggs is a multi-media entertainment on-air personality, pop culture expert, and most recently Billboard News correspondent.

Emmis announced on Tuesday that it is selling its St. Louis stations KSHE (94.7 FM) and The Point (KPNT, 105.7 FM) to Hubbard, and KFTK (FM News Talk 97.1 FM) and NOW (KNOU, 96.3 FM) to Entercom. Hubbard owns 3 FM's in St Louis and Entercom owns three stations in the market, 2 FM's and 1 AM.  Terms of the deals were not disclosed.

We're hearing every week about companies and stations becoming "Alexa-enabled," making listening to radio as simple as walking through your front door and asking Alexa to play Z100 in New York. We spoke to Amazon's Ryan Reddington and Alex Luke to see if they believe there is a way for us to work together.

Cindy Spicer, one of Radio Ink's 2018 Top Country PD's, is now the Program Director at iHeartMedia’s US103.5 in Tampa Bay. Spicer moves downstate from iHeart's WQIK-FM in Jacksonville were she was PD and host. Spicer has also worked at KUSS in San Diego.

John Forsythe will retire from The John & Leslye Morning Show on March 30. The show airs weekday mornings on Magic 107.7, “More Variety from the 80s to Now.” Forsythe joined Leslye Gale on the show in 2010.

In a filing with the bankruptcy court Monday, Randy Michaels' Merlin Media stated it was in the process of working with Cumulus to resolve all business and legal issues between Merlin and Cumulus, including the possibility of Michaels taking WLUP-FM and WIQI-FM back or selling them to someone else.