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Former hockey player Brent Sopel has signed on as hockey analyst and show host with WGN’s The Beat, the station’s weekend sports program. Sopel spent 12 seasons in the NHL and won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010.

The Executive Director of the musicFIRST Coalition blasted out an e-mail yesterday that took several shots at radio. As the NAB continues to add signatures to the Local Radio Freedom Act, Israel and musicFIRST are pushing Congress to mandate that radio pay artists directly in order to play their music. Here's our suggestion...

Wayne Jones is the VP of Sales for Cumulus in Baton Rouge. He oversees the sales operations for four radio stations and a team of 15 people, including AEs, sales managers, and sales assistants. He is also one of Radio Ink‘s Future African American Leaders in Radio and will be featured in our March 6 issue. Let's find out why. Here is our extended interview with Wayne

President Donald Trump and others have been bashing the news media lately, jumping on the currently popular phrase "fake news," after Facebook was hit with a slew of criticism for allowing fake news stories to build on the social media site. The NAB wants everyone to know its member stations can be trusted. Here's how...

On Wednesday the FCC issued a warning of sorts to all broadcasters hoping to take advantage of the recent FCC rule change that relaxes restrictions on the siting of FM translators rebroadcasting AM stations. That rule change was passed on February 23. Here's what the Media Bureau wants you to know.

(By Barry Cohen) Salespeople! You need to tell your clients that everything they love about the Internet (and social media), you have right in that little box with the speakers in it. You see, radio has always been a social medium. In fact, it was the original social medium.

(By Ronald Robinson) Maybe my 50 years in radio (30 on the air), and my skepticism, makes questionable my actual youthful exuberance for the potential of the medium. My brains might have been addled as well. Any reasonable individual who takes on the task to redirect the communicative aspects of radio is, practically, attempting to till a field of rocks with a broom.

This is a first for both Westwood One and the NCAA. The network announced it will broadcast the 2017 NCAA Men’s Final Four in Spanish, the Championship’s first-ever Spanish-language broadcast on any platform.

Jeffrey Smith, Gregory Buchwald, and Anne Smith have agreed to sell their ownership interests in Baraboo Broadcasting Corporation to Kelly Martinson. The BBC owns and operates station WRPQ(AM) and FM translator station W259BC, both of Baraboo, Wisconsin.

This announcement comes from United Stations Radio Networks. It's the official launch of a new Phantom Producer website which features a reimagined user interface called the Sequencer.