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The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York and ruled that there is no common law right to performance fees in sound recordings created prior to 1972, and that there were no alternative grounds for finding Sirius XM liable.

The radio industry simply couldn't ask for anything better. By all indications the Chairman of the FCC is going to make radio one of his top priorities. We've already seen the Commission under Ajit Pai vote to do away with the 43-year-old rule that required you to save paper letters from listeners. And Thursday, at the NABA Future of Audio Symposium in Washington DC, the Chairman told a very friendly audience, "I’ve made AM radio a personal priority."

Yesterday, we shared a video created by Spotify pushing the power of audio. We also wondered how powerful a similar video about the power of radio would be. Our great friends at the RAB pointed us in the right direction...right to their website. The video about the power of radio the RAB produces is updated regularly and sent out to RAB members. Check it out HERE.

On Thursday, Nielsen released a chart to show how important the News Radio format was in 2016 leading up to the Presidential election. In 2012, News Radio audience levels spiked during that election year, and 2016 proved to be no different.

That was the conclusion from consultant Alan Burns and Strategic Solutions EVP Hal Rood. Thursday afternoon Burns and Rood hosted their first of four webinars to unveil the research they've been conducting on women and the reasons they do, or do not, listen to radio. The top reason they do listen...

The Hispanic-focused broadcaster reported total revenue for its radio division of $72.8 million in Q4 of 2016, compared to $72.1 million a year earlier. If you back out political, radio would have decreased 3.6% to $66.8 million from $69.3 million. Univision owns 67 radio stations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

The University of Miami Athletics and Miami’s Sports Radio 560 announced Thursday that they have entered into a multi-year extension for the station to remain the flagship radio home of Miami Hurricanes games. The station has been a broadcast partner since the 1999 NCAA football season.

(By John Garziglia) In a fact pattern worthy of a law school exam question, an IRS employee calls the Howard Stern Show and is put on hold. The IRS employee on a different line takes a call from a taxpayer while on hold with Howard. The Stern Show picks up, hears the IRS employee talking with the taxpayer and puts the conversation on the air live. The law school question is … in how many ways might the Howard Stern Show be civilly and criminally liable?

It was back in December that Westwood One announced Jon Grayson's syndicated show Overnight America would be discontinued. Grayson kept his overnight shift at KMOX. The station has confirmed that Grayson is no longer at KMOX. So where is he headed?

Danni Starr is returning to DC radio to co-host The Fam in The Morning on the Radio One station. Starr will join QuickSilva behind the mic, weekdays 6-10 a.m., starting February 21. QuickSilva and Danni will be heard throughout the DMV (Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia) region.