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Radio imaging voiceover and jingle company Benztown has appointed Katrina Woolverton as General Counsel, a newly created position. Woolverton is a graduate of Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles and San Diego State University.

Legendary artist Stevie Wonder will be honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, with its inaugural Key of Life Award at this year’s ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO in Los Angeles, April 13-15. He will also appear in a keynote “I Create Music” session.

The singer will be a guest of Chicago's B96 (96.3 FM) at the new CBS Radio Chicago Culinary Kitchen on March 20. Rexa will be the first guest artist to show off her culinary skills while being interviewed by B96 morning show hosts J Niice, Showbiz Shelly, and Producer Gabe, in front of a studio audience of approximately 20 winners.

(By Ken Dardis) In 2013 Larry Rosin, President of Edison Research, said: "It’s not that long ago, when there was a Code of Omerta in the radio industry, where if you point out a problem, you are the problem." I was a problem for almost twenty years prior to retiring in 2014. Before that, nearly 30 years were spent working with knowledgeable broadcasters.

(By K.M. Richards) As we all know by now, the latest Nielsen PPM fiasco turns out to be a single family with multiple meters which were exposed long-term to an online stream. And Nielsen's "fix" is to remove that household from the process. I do not believe that's going to restore the growing suspicions by the radio industry that PPM is not an accurate method of determining the listenership numbers.

This week, Spanish-language broadcaster LBI Media launched a community affairs campaign called "We Are One With You" to address the Latino community’s concern over immigration issues. With Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference set to begin March 28 in Fort Lauderdale, we wanted to know exactly why LBI launched this campaign.

Revenue at Cumulus' radio stations was up 1.6% in Q4 of 2016. Cumulus radio stations took in $209.8 million in revenue in Q4, compared to $206.5 million a year earlier. That increase was driven by political, digital, and national spot revenue.

Despite revenue at Cumulus' radio stations being up a tick, Westwood One revenue, which is 30% of the company's business, took a big hit, dropping 12.3% to $89.1 million. As a result, overall revenue for Cumulus in Q4 of 2016 was down 3% to $299.5 million.

It's always been a question of time. Will Cumulus CEO Mary Berner have enough time to turn around a company burdened with $2 Billion in debt. She's never tried to sugar coat the problems Cumulus has been facing since she took over 18 months ago. She's consistently said they are real and significant.

It's official and on file with the FCC. Effective April 10, an FM translator carrying an AM station can be located so that the translator’s 60 dBμ contour is contained within either the AM station’s 2 mV/m contour or a 25-mile radius from the FM transmitter site giving, in particular, AM stations with highly directional patterns or small service areas greater flexibility, and often greater coverage, from an FM translator.