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The new product radio's largest company has unveiled is called "SmartAudio." We now live in a world of big data and iHeart's new digital data advertising product is part of the programmatic buying platform which was unveiled about a year ago. SmartAudio helps advertisers target specific audience segments. But it's much more than that.

Thursday, March 16, sees the launch of community-licensed KNKX’s rebrand -- new logos, and brand pillars that support KNKX’s mission of delivering excellence in jazz, blues, and news with stories that inspire, inform, and connect our community. The rebrand is based on four core values: storytelling, innovation, community, and connection.

WINK 106/Corning, NY, raised over $80,000 dollars during the Children’s Miracle Network Radiothon in conjunction with Arnot Health, March 9-10. All funds were raised locally and stay in the community, supporting services for infants and children at the pediatric and neonatal intensive care units at Arnot Ogden Medical Center.

Celebrity radio hosts and Radio One’s national network of praise stations joined forces to support Radio Cares for St. Jude Kids national radio broadcast event which raised more than $1.5 million for the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

This is not something new. Every few years public radio and TV stations have to fight for their government funding as politicians who do not believe these media outlets are reporting the news evenly and fairly, attempt to take away their funds. President Donald Trump plans to propose a budget that eliminates all federal funding for public broadcasting

Rich Lieberman is reporting that Michael Savage was confronted and physically attacked Tuesday night after eating dinner at Servino's Restaurant in Tiburon, CA. The report says the mugger kicked Savage's dog then threw the syndicated talker to the ground.

The new 5-part podcast series is called "The Investigation Continues" and it debuts Monday. WTOP reporter Neal Augenstein examines the circumstances behind the 1975 disappearance of 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and her 10-year-old sister Katherine.

Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan is either going to need a bigger shelf or add a trophy room onto his house. Smulyan is being awarded the 2017 Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award by the Broadcasters Foundation of America. Here are just a few of the honors and awards one of radio's most respected broadcasters has earned so far.

Mark Fuhrman is the new Area President for the West Virginia Region, which includes Huntington, Parkersburg, and Wheeling. Fuhrman joins iHeart from IMG College, where he was GM and managed Thundering Herd Sports Marketing for Marshall University in West Virginia.

Online advertising is sucking away radio's advertising dollars, and the government needs to step in and do something. That's the conclusion Galaxy CEO Ed Levine has come to after commissioning a BIA/Kelsey study of the Syracuse market and receiving results that seriously disturbed him.