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This deal with the BCCA will allow Marketron customers to share real-time credit information about industry advertisers with members of the BCCA, which is the media industry’s credit association.

And that's not bad news when compared to other media in the latest Standard Media Index report. Overall, SMI says ad spending was up 6.8% in 2016, and of course the big gainer was digital, jumping 13.3% for the year. However, that's a far cry from what digital gained in 2015, which was 50%.

Jackson was named the new Operations Manager for Top 40 KZIA and Sports Talk KGYM. He'll also program KZIA. Jackson worked the night shift at KZIA from 2004 to 2011. He was also APD/MD at CBS Radio Alternative KXTE in Las Vegas and Hot AC KHMX in Houston.

In a speech to the FCC staff yesterday, newly appointed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai laid out one of his top priorities: bringing the benefits of the digital age to all Americans. Pai said there is a digital divide in this country — between those who can use services from cutting-edge communications services and those who can not.

As it did with the 114th Congress, the NAB is aggressively pursuing members of the 115th Congress to support the Local Radio Freedom Act, which is legislation opposing new performance royalties on radio stations for playing music. Similar resolutions were introduced in both the House and Senate on Tuesday.

Texarkana’s Classic Hits station – HITS 105 is taking all Madonna songs off the air indefinitely after her comments over the weekend at a women's rally. General Manager Terry Thomas, says “banning all Madonna songs at HITS 105 is not a matter of politics, it’s a matter of patriotism.

Late last night iHeartMedia announced that John Peake is the new Program Director for AC station KOST 103.5 and Hot AC/Adult Top 40 station 104.3 MYfm in Los Angeles, replacing Michael La Crosse who will transition into an advisory role in iHeart's West Division.

Chicago media writer Robert Feder took to his blog Tuesday to tell readers he will no longer be publishing Chicago radio station revenue numbers. And he's blaming it on a market manager who he says complained to the accounting firm that Feder was publishing his declining numbers.

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Baseball's Miami Marlins and iHeartMedia have signed a multi-year extension that will keep WINZ-AM in Miami the exclusive radio station for all 162 regular season games and 15 spring training games. The Marlins and iHeartMedia have been broadcast partners since 2013.