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Two House Reps and two Senators have joined as cosponsors of a resolution against "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on radio that the NAB is pushing on Capitol Hill. The Local Radio Freedom Act now has 129 cosponsors in the House and 12 in the Senate.

Broker Bob Heymann tells us the student radio station at UNC is celebrating its 40th year with a reunion on March 18. He says if you ever DJ’d, read news, reported sports, sold time, or soldered wire at UNC, you played a part in this history and are warmly invited back.

Nominations close Today for the 2017 Medallas de Cortez awards. There are eight categories. Awards will be presented at the Hispanic Radio Conference, March 28-29 in Fort Lauderdale at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty Six. Click here to make your nomination..

Details of a new Nielsen study, commissioned by Westwood One, were released Monday. The focus was listeners who were exposed to a "major motorcycle" brand that ran ads during Westwood One's coverage of the NFL and NCAA basketball. And Pierre Bouvard says the results were outstanding for radio.

A podcast with a difference debuts on WRALsportsfan.com, Tuesday, February 14. The eight-week podcast, NC State Stuff: Is there a curse?, looks at the mythological North Carolina State sports curse.

We've been reporting for years that businesses have been shifting their ad dollars to digital. It's the shiny new platform and everybody's doing it, often without measuring whether campaigns are even working or not. However, this story might give some of your advertisers pause the next time they consider advertising on the latest and greatest social media site.

In the issue out this week and our next several issues, Radio Ink will be spotlighting companies that are generating real digital revenue for radio. XAPPMedia is a technology company that focuses on interactive audio services, and one of the goals of the company is to help radio stations generate revenue in the voice space, which includes Alexa and Google Home.

(By Deborah Parenti) I am no sports expert — especially not about football — but this year’s history-making Super Bowl game reminded me — as it should everyone, no matter who you were rooting for — that perseverance pays off. That it’s “not over ‘til it’s over.” You know where this is going. Radio. Resilience. Rewards.

Another teaser from Alan Burns and Associates about new data they are releasing this week. Burns and Associates and Strategic Solutions Research say the data they have compiled show 87% of millennial women look forward to listening to radio, and 79% feel there’s a local radio station that really understands them.

This guarantee relates to those ads that come up on your feed with video. Advertisers will now be able to buy ads with the option to only pay when videos play with the sound on, according to Advertising Age. Advertisers are demanding more accountability and it looks as if Facebook is trying to deliver.