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Today, Katz Media Group clients will be receiving a new Radio Insights piece from Director of Radio Station Solutions, Lisa Cirigliano. The focus of the piece is a reminder of how crowded the roads will be during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday travel season, and how powerful radio is at targeting those drivers all over the roads. 

The Charlotte New Country station will host the second annual St. Jude Radiothon on December 7 and 8, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day, to help raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The radiothon will be held at iHeartMedia Charlotte, 801 Wood Ridge Center Drive Charlotte, NC.

When CBS corporate reports its quarterly earnings, radio is but a blip on the company TV screen. That will obviously change if the radio division is spun off, which some are predicting will happen early next year. Because CEO Les Moonves hardly pays attention to radio in his quarterly report, it's impossible to ever know what the CBS Radio revenue is. It's reported as part of "local broadcast," which includes TV. Variety columnist Jan Dawson thinks he figured out the radio numbers.

News Radio 610, Manchester's News Traffic and Weather radio station, and News Radio 96.7, Portsmouth's News Traffic and Weather radio station, held the third annual "Make 12 Hours Count" radiothon. When it was over, the grand total raised was almost $140,000 to benefit Veterans Count

eMarketer has just come out with a positive report on worldwide ad spending. The research firm says ad spending across the globe will increase 7.4% to $628.63 billion in 2018.

Kathy Romano will debut her new Sunday morning show, Her Story, on 95.7 BEN FM, Philadelphia, Sunday February 19 at 7:30 a.m.  The radio vet will continue her role on BEN FM’s sister station 93.3 WMMR as co-host of the Preston & Steve Show.

Cumulus Chattanooga makes the announcement that Dave Hooker is the new co-host at SportTalk, the long-running afternoon sports talk show on WGOW FM.

Accounting firm Miller Kaplan has named Steve Scadden its new Director of Media Services. Scadden is a seasoned sales executive with 27 years of experience in the media industry.

It's called Personality on Demand and the company says the talent is made up of major market personalities. Delivery is by internet so stations can manually download or have the breaks loaded directly into their automation system.  

Benztown and P1 Media Group are partnering to recognize the best ideas from radio professionals around the world on creative and innovative ways they have been serving their audiences during the pandemic.