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The Palm Beaches’ Real Radio 94.3 partnered with Tito’s Handmade Vodka for the second annual Touchdowns for Charity fundraiser. The season-long program will benefit Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Autism and Related Disabilities.

The 26th Annual Radio Mercury Awards has begun accepting entries for outstanding creative spots, campaigns, and innovative radio work from advertising agencies, radio stations, production companies, colleges, universities, and advertisers.

The Billy Madison Show team is celebrating its fifth anniversary and they threw a Texas-sized bash in their hometown of San Antonio to celebrate. KISS-FM held a sold-out 5th Anniversary Celebration show at San Antonio’s Aztec Theater. In addition, the station worked closely with their newest affiliate, KCLB-FM, Palm Springs, for a promotion that landed a couple of lucky Cali listeners in San Antonio for the anniversary show.

ABC Radio has a new podcast called No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis. Jarvis is the ABC News Chief Business, Economics and Technology Correspondent. Each week, Jarvis speaks with women in Hollywood, business, technology, fashion, comedy, food, sports, and startups about how they built their empire and their wide-range of accomplishments.

Jim Bohannon has signed another multi-year deal with Westwood One, which will keep him hosting The Jim Bohannon Show, which is now in its 33rd year. The program airs on more than 250 stations. As part of his renewal, Westwood is launching a new Jim Bohannon podcast and Best of Bohannon program.

And it goes on and on. The back-and-forth hate mail between the RMLC and GMR didn't end after Randy Grimmett's backhand slap Tuesday afternoon. RMLC's Ed Christian immediately fired off an e-mail to the RMLC database that included name-calling and more accusations of spreading false information. Is your head spinning yet? The Christian note was short and to the point and here it is...

The number of radio executives attending the annual tech and gadget show in Las Vegas is increasing every year according to our friend Buzz Knight at Beasley Media. In fact, Fred Jacobs took some of those executives on a tour of the massive event this year. Radio Ink spoke to Jacobs about the tour, what new technology will impact the radio industry and what he was most impressed with from the 2017 show. Here's what he had to say.

The Dallas Cowboys owner was the first guest on the new ESPN Audio weekly podcast which launched January 10 called Adam Schefter’s Know Them From Adam.

The San Antonio Express-News is reporting that bondholders have transferred an iHeartMedia lawsuit against them seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from debt default notices last year to federal district court in San Antonio. The suit was being heard in Bexar County state district court where iHeart had won a previous lawsuit.

Before moving to Chicago, Ron Parker was on the air at NASH-FM and also worked at WCBS-FM in New York City. Parker has also held on-air and programming positions in San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, and Tallahassee. He started his afternoon drive run on Classic Hits WLS on Tuesday, replacing Robert Murphy.