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The Gracies Luncheon, honoring local and student radio, television, and interactive media Gracies recipients, will be held Tuesday, June 27 in New York at Cipriani on 42nd. Jane Pauley will be acknowledged with the Gracies Lifetime Achievement Award.

Here's a story getting national attention, and probably wouldn't be if Donald Trump was not the President. And it's a great General Manager case study. What would you do if you had to manage Bruce Bond? Can he ever be hired again in radio or has he burned his last bridge?

The Todd Starnes Show (12-3 p.m./ET) begins Wednesday, July 5. It replaces The John Gibson Show. Monday, July 10 will see the debut of The Tom Shillue Show (3-6 p.m.) which replaces The Tom Sullivan Show.

The celebrity podcast is called iHeartRadio’s Label Defiers with ZICO Coconut Water, and it launched with a bang, Wednesday, featuring Miley Cyrus as the debut guest. Hosted by nationally syndicated radio personality Elvis Duran, the bi-weekly podcast features stars discussing how they perceive their own labels, challenges they’ve faced, and their idiosyncrasies.

(by John Garziglia) In the spirit of Top 10 lists, the following are 10 things to know about the upcoming July 26 – August 2 AM-exclusive filing window for new FM translators as announced in the FCC’s June 6, 2017 Public Notice...

Sun Broadcast Group has signed a multiyear extension with Chief Operating Officer Julio Aponte. Under the agreement, Aponte will continue to head the daily operations of Sun’s New York City and Boca Raton offices as well as oversee the company’s sales department. He's been COO since 2014.

The Beasley station is bringing in Erin Vermeulen to join Big Jim O’Brien on the WCSX-FM morning team. Her start date is Monday, July 10. Vermeulen began her career at the former 1310 WYUR in Detroit, and was most recently heard on the air as a member of the Bill Handel Morning Show at KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles.

Peter Thiele is the new PD for Cumulus' Newsradio 102.9 KARN in Little Rock. Thiele has programmed spoken-word stations in New York City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, San Antonio, Greenville/Spartanburg, SC, and Huntsville.

The FCC says Conroy Dawson must pay a $25,000 penalty for operating a pirate radio station at 97.5-FM in Paterson, New Jersey. Over a year ago, New York field agents investigated Dawson's operation which identified itself as “WBLR – Big Link Radio 97.5 FM.” They have concluded his argument against paying the fine doesn't fly.

Between April and mid-summer Borrell & Associates asked over 7,500 small business owners 44 questions and has been pushing out the data in a weekly chart. In this week's chart 1,907 local advertisers responded to the question about whether they planned to cut or eliminate a certain media from their ad budget. So exactly how did radio stack up?