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The Lombardi Award winner, two-time All-American, and Super Bowl champion will team up with Anthony Rothman every Monday during the summer for Off-Season with AJ Hawk, airing noon – 1 p.m. The show will feature talk about the Ohio State Buckeyes, NFL, as well as other hot sports topics and opinion.

FM translators are now blanketing the country. There are thousands either rebroadcasting an AM signal, an HD signal, or (despite the FCC's rules not to) airing original content. With all those translators comes the possibility, and probability, that some will interfere with existing full-power FM radio stations. The NAB wants to help resolve those interference problems and has filed comments with the FCC to do so. Here are the details...

On May 1, WWXT-FM in Washington, D.C., will become part of the Radio One family, and in Richmond WXGI AM ESPN 950 will also become part of the Radio One family. Red Zebra is selling the two stations to Radio One and CEO Alfred Liggins is quite happy about the purchases.

CBS Radio has signed an agreement with live traffic video company TrafficLand for use of its video management technology. The service provides access to real-time video from over 20,000 state and local D.O.T. traffic cameras across the U.S. CBS radio stations can now monitor rush-hour patterns, traffic bottlenecks, and how incidents affect traffic conditions.

The Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio group has selected four mentees that will participate in the 2017 Mildred Carter Mentoring Program. The program matches up-and-coming women in the radio industry with female professionals recognized as leaders in radio. So far the program has mentored 39 woman. Here is the 2017 class...

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to relax its third-party fundraising restrictions to permit noncommercial stations to air limited fundraisers for the benefit of other non-profit organizations. Until now they could only conduct on-air fundraising for third parties if they received an FCC waiver or the fundraising activity did not alter or suspend regular programming.

Univision San Antonio has flipped its AC Rhythmic format playing Hip Hop on KMYO-FM to a new Latino Mix. It's an English-language station designed for Latino San Antonians, featuring a blend of Top 40 and Latin Rhythmic hits. The playlist includes Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and The Chainsmokers to J Balvin, Nicky Jam, Enrique Iglesias, and Daddy Yankee.

Forty new SpokenEditions have been released onto iHeartMedia’s all-in-one digital music, podcasting, and live-streaming radio service. SpokenEditions draws from written content from premium publishers. SpokenEditions provides access to audio versions of some of the top written publications across a number of subjects.

SBS's much-delayed Q4 2016 earnings were released late last night and the company reported consolidated net revenue of $42.1 million compared to $40.3 million a year earlier. That's an increase of $1.8 million or 5%. SBS's radio division net revenues increased $1.1 million or 3%, due to increases in national, local, and digital sales. Local sales increased in Chicago, Miami New York and Puerto Rico.

In addition to finally releasing Q4 earnings Spanish Broadcasting Systems has also laid out what it is calling "a comprehensive recapitalization plan, and also says it is in default of its notes and a covenant.