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Benztown is offering a 'Top 10 Now & Then Old School Hit Countdown Special' for the July 4th weekend. It features the 500 greatest old school hits and the stories behind them.

The Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau and Apple City Broadcasting Company, Inc., the licensee of WACB-AM and WTLK-AM in Taylorsville, NC, have settled issues concerning the transfer of control of Apple City after the death of its owner.

The Country Radio Broadcasters has announced that individual tickets and tables are available for the 2018 Country Radio Hall of Fame Induction Dinner and Awards ceremony being held June 20 in Nashville. Individual tickets are $130 each.

WTAM 1100/106.9 FM, Cleveland’s Newsradio, is marking the 50th Broadcast Anniversary of Geraldo Rivera with a week-long celebration. Starting September 8 a variety of memorable broadcast career moments will air during his daily radio program.

Ellen Horne, who was the executive producer of the podcast Radiolab for over a decade, is launching a new investigative podcast, Admissible: Shreds of Evidence, hosted by reporter Tessa Kramer and co-produced by VPM (Central Virginia’s public media station) and iHeartPodcasts. 

Digital subscribers to Radio Ink have already received our latest issue, which includes our interview with "Super Agent" Heather Cohen, who is also on our 2017 Most Influential Women in Radio list. Print subscribers will start to see their copy in a few days. If you would like to subscribe to Radio Ink and have it downloaded to your device immediately, including this issue, GO HERE. Have your copy before the boss. Get an entire year of Radio Ink digital for only $49.00.

First Twitter, now Google. Since the last election that shiny new toy has a few scuff marks on it. That's clearly an opportunity for radio.

That's what New York Daily News writer Bob Raissmann says in his latest column. You can always find baseball on radio. Raissman was writing about how Major League Baseball has cut so many TV and streaming deals gouging fans for as much money as they possible can.

WBGL/Champaign, Illinois, morning show co-host Johnathon Eltrevoog recently took on the challenge of C-U at Home’s One Winter Night event. In the process, over $27K was raised for the homeless.

(By Buzz Knight) Is PPM technology due for an upgrade? The recent announcement by Nielsen on June 16th that they are expanding their encoding options with their Audio Software Encoder for FM stations is good news for the future improvement of audience measurement.