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Entercom San Francisco radio stations Q102.1, 96.5 KOIT, 98.5 KFOX, and 95.7 The GAME are partnering with the Latino Community Foundation to raise funds for those impacted by the recent earthquakes in Mexico City and surrounding areas. The three-week campaign will officially launch October 6.

The Nevada Broadcasters association is calling today "Broadcasters Unite Nevada Day." In the aftermath of the shooting in Las Vegas, the Nevada broadcasters are asking everyone in the state to show unity by wearing the state's colors: Silver and Blue.

A special audio blog is now available to stations from Dr. Lewis Jassey as a public service. Jassey tells Radio Ink he'd like stations to consider running the information he's providing in light of the recent tragic events in Las Vegas.

Statistical analysis site FiveThirtyEight has debuted the first episode of The Lab, a new weekly NBA podcast hosted by Neil Paine (general editor and senior sportswriter), Kyle Wagner (senior sportswriter), and Chris Herring (senior sportswriter), available now on The Lab’s podcast feed.

Both the National Retail Federation and PwC predict happy holidays for the economy due to confidence from the American consumer. And this is certainly good news for radio as advertisers tend to spend more money when confidence is up and the economy is humming.

The NABOB 41st Annual Fall Broadcast Conference and Power of Urban Radio Forum will be held October 11-12 in Washington DC. A highlight of the conference will be a discussion titled “Major Group Executives Discuss the Future of Broadcasting" on Thursday, October 12.

WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub is the flagship station of the Bruins and the Boston Bruins Radio Network. Sirott will join analyst Bob Beers in the booth to call the games. Since 2008, Sirott was host and fill-in play-by-play announcer for the Blackhawks on WGN AM in Chicago. Sirott takes over for Dave Goucher, who left to do TV play-by-play for the Vegas Golden Knights.

National radio host Larry Elder will be in Minneapolis on Tuesday, October 24, for a one-night-only event. AM 1280 The Patriot is bringing Mr. Elder to the Twin Cities for An Evening with Elder at the Marriott Southwest in Minnetonka.

Alan Stock is one of the most well-known talk show hosts in Las Vegas. He's been on the air in Vegas for 19 years now, 13 with CBS-owned KXNT where he hosts afternoon drive. When he switched on the news Sunday night to see if anything was going on in the community he calls home, he knew nearly instantly that a major event was taking place.

Keeping to his word to crack down on pirate radio stations, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's enforcement team was is it again, this time notifying four pirates in Florida and one in Queens to shut down their illegal operations. Everyone in the latest notice has 10 days to respond to the Commission about what they were doing running radio stations without a license. Here are the details.