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The company’s annual Operating Achievement Awards were handed out during a dinner at Beasley Media Group’s annual Management Meeting on Friday, August 25 at the Ritz Carlton in Naples, Florida. The awards honor the achievements and contributions made by employees and radio stations over the last 12 months.

(By Deborah Parenti) The events unfolding in Houston have been horrible to watch. So many people have been affected by Harvey and their lives will be altered for many years. For broadcasters affected by the storm, you should know there's help out there.

On Monday, WTMJ Radio and 94.5 KTI COUNTRY raised over $69,000 during a fundraiser for disaster relief for those affected by Hurricane Harvey. The money will be given to the American Red Cross.

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Reach Media’s syndicated shows provided interviews with those affected as well as experts from the region to inform those listeners thousands of miles away on what they could do to impact others just like them. Here are just a few examples of what the Reach Media hosts have been doing to help Texas.

AdLarge Media has hired Gina Suarez as Director of Affiliate Marketing and promoted Frank DeSantis to Senior VP of Business Development. DeSantis joined AdLarge as VP of Business Development in 2011. Suarez will oversee AdLarge’s affiliation efforts, along with managing specific affiliate programs and products. Most recently, Suarez was Manager of Affiliate Relations at Sun Broadcast Group.

Scott assumes the role for both NASH FM 97.3/WFYR and 92.3 FM/WZPW in Peoria, IL. He has over 20 years’ experience in radio, and programmed stations in Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, and the Quad Cities region. He starts Tuesday, September 5, 2017.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America announced Monday morning it is encouraging broadcasters who have been hit by Hurricane Harvey to find out if they qualify for emergency aid by completing the emergency grant request form on their website.

We all know that air checks are a standard yet critical tool in the radio industry. Whether it be for campaign verification or programming evaluation, the air check process has not changed very much in the last 50 years -- it is still fairly laborious and time consuming. While the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been touted as game changing for a variety of industries, the radio industry can also leverage this technology to its advantage.

All is right in the radio world as The Home Depot returned to the top spot on the weekly Media Monitors chart. The big box Home Improvement chain aired 53,468 commercials last week well ahead of the U.S. Department of Transportation (38,923).

Aerostar Communications of Utah is purchasing KEGH-FM (Woodruff, UT) along with booster stations KEGH-FM1 (Ogden), KEGH-FM2 (Bountiful, UT), KEGH-FM3 (Salt Lake City), KEGH-FM4 (Provo) for $1,100,000 cash. KEGH-FM has been in the SLC Divestiture Trust II for 6 years. It was part of the Simmons Media Group divestiture in the Salt Lake market.