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On Tuesday, the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs announced that the club has reached an agreement to extend their partnership with Union Broadcasting's Sports Radio 810 WHB-AM. Since 2010, Sports Radio 810 WHB has been the official sports radio home of the Chiefs. The length of the extension was not disclosed.

Chris Wegmann becomes the new VP/Market Manager for Entercom in New Orleans, overseeing WWL AM/FM, WLMG-FM, WKBU-FM, WEZB-FM, WWWL-AM, and The New Orleans Saints Radio Network. Prior to joining Entercom, Wegmann was President of the Radio Division of Radio One. He replaces Chris Claus who announced his retirement earlier this month. 

In an opinion piece posted to The Huffington Post, KCAA Riverside CEO Fred Lundgren says nothing other than progressive talk shows will close the abyss between liberals and conservatives as long as democrats remain in their online ecosystem. "We must speak calmly, reasonably, professionally and directly to red state voters in their language over their medium... radio."

Kevin and Allison Blume from Mishawaka, Indiana have ten days to respond to the Commission after they were cited for operating an unlicensed radio station at 93.9 in he Osceola, Indiana area. The FCC says its equipment detected the signal emanating from the Blume's home in Mishawaka, Indiana. Read the full FCC notice to the Blume's HERE.

A political non-profit group close to House Republicans is spending $1 million on radio praising Republican efforts to revamp the tax code. According to The Hill, American Action Network will run ads in 34 districts, "supporting Republican members of House leadership, members of key tax-related committees and vulnerable incumbents in swing districts."

Back in 1995 Kevin Otero took a class about radio that was offered by Albuquerque KANW-FM in New Mexico. Otero tells Radio Ink that class helped him get to where he is today. Otero is now the Program Director at the station. The class is an eight-week free course covering everything from FCC rules, to music formats, to speaking on the air. We reached out to Otero to get more details about why KANW continues to offer this class.

Volume II of Nielsen’s Millennials on Millennials series was released Monday. And despite being very active listeners of streaming services, Nielsen says Millennials have not abandoned radio.

At 7 AM Nielsen will release its first “Nielsen Podcast Insights” report. The report looks at the shopping habits of today’s Podcast consumer. By matching purchase behavior in the Nielsen Homescan Panel to fans of podcasts, Nielsen says it is now able to quantify the value of consumers who listen to podcasts.

(by Georgia Beasley) Most of the articles about Millennials in the workplace are about managing and getting the most out of your Millennial employees. While I believe that all GMs and managers should still be focused on attracting more Millennials to Radio, recently I’ve also seen a new trend in our industry… The Rise of The Millennial Manager in Radio. Is our industry just managing Millennials or creating Millennial Managers?

The government was out in full force airing 37,350 commercials about drunk driving on radio last week, moving from 29th on the Media Monitors chart to 2nd, just behind GEICO which aired 40,197 commercials. The Home Depot was third (36,393) followed by JC Penney (28,970) and McDonald's.