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New employment agreements for four Beasleys were filed in an 8K Monday. All the deals are retroactive to January 1, 2017 and run through 2019. The man who founded the company, George Beasley, who is still the Chairman of the board, will be paid $750,000. CEO Caroline Beasley will make $750,000, President Bruce Beasley will make $550,000, and Chief Operating Officer Brian Beasley will also make $550,000. All are eligible for bonuses and restricted stock.

In Q1 newspaper revenue dropped 3.8% to $5.85 billion from $6.08 billion in the first quarter of 2016. And while digital is up for newspaper industry, it is not able to offset other revenue declines.

WNYQ-FM host Tim Celeste was one of 12 men charged with trying to have sex with kids. Newschannel 13 reports authorities say the 12 men all wanted to have sex with girls between 9 and 14 years old. WNYQ is owned by Adirondack Broadcasting in Queensbury, New York. Celeste's bio is no longer on the station website.

Heather Birks started working for the Broadcast Education Association in 2006, after working for the NAB for four years and NABEF for six. BEA is an academic media organization for educators, students, and professionals. BEA hired Birks, because in the six years she worked at NABEF, she helped build, manage and produce the Service to America Awards, and helped launch and run the Broadcast Leadership Training Program.

The monster event took place at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on Friday and Saturday, June 9-10, and featured performances by DJ Khaled, Halsey, Miley Cyrus, Backstreet Boys, Fifth Harmony, Noah Cyrus, Tinashe and Luis Fonsi. The event was hosted by DJ Khaled, Nick Cannon and Emily Sears

The President of Jacobs Media Strategies will present “Podcasting & Radio: What We Learned From Techsurvey13” on Thursday, June 15 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. Fred will take a deep dive into Techsurvey13, the radio industry’s largest online survey, to see how podcasting is impacting radio listeners.

After just over a year as the morning host on San Francisco rocker KFOG, Matt Pinfield will turn over the morning mic to focus on his two nationally syndicated radio shows, the weekly rock history show, “Flashback” and the nightly show, “Two Hours”. Both programs are syndicated by Westwood One. Cumulus did not announce Pinfield's replacement.

Paul Rogers has been named Area President for the Capitol Coast, which includes 4 stations in Tallahassee and five in Panama City. He'll keep some of his previous responsibilities as VP of Strategic Partnerships for the Florida Region and report to Linda Byrd, President of iHeartMedia’s North Florida Region.

And it's taking a bath on the deal. It was back in late 2015 that Pandora purchased the ticket selling business for $450 million. On Friday the company announced it was selling Ticketfly to Eventbrite for $200 million. The deal will be funded through a combination of $150 million cash and a $50 million note payable to Pandora.

(by Michael Dudding) My last submission to Radio Ink said “don’t get me started on telephone numbers” in ads. Since only 0.24923% of Americans have a photographic memory, the phone number within a commercial is probably forgotten long before the commercial ends.