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First Beasley dumped Bubba The Love Sponge from morning drive on WBRN. The No Rules Rock format quickly became history after that and Beasley stunted with "Donald-FM," which featured a menu of songs about money. Thursday night the new format was officially launched...

The new BEN FM Morning Show with Matt & Kristen will broadcast weekdays 6-9 a.m. Matt Cord has come in from sister station 93.3 WMMR where he was night host for 11 years. His co-host is Kristen Herrmann and their first show aired Tuesday, January 3.

The submission window has opened for the NAB’s 30th annual Crystal Radio Awards, honoring outstanding community service. Entry submissions must be received by January 31, and winners will be announced at the NAB Show Radio Luncheon, Tuesday, April 25 in Las Vegas.

A boxing champion in her own right, Laila Ali now has her own lifestyle podcast on PodcastOne. Called Laila Ali Lifestyle, listeners will be able to hear Laila’s thoughts on facing life's challenges as she prepares them for victory through insights on fitness, holistic wellness, cooking, relationships, parenting and more.

On the heels of SNL/Kagan reporting the radio deal volume in 2016 was at its lowest in decades, we turned to a handful of experts who work the deals every day to find out what the reasons were and what we can expect moving forward. Here's what they had to say...

Her term expired in July of 2016 and her renomination for a second 5-year term never made it to a Congressional vote last year. On Wednesday, President Obama gave it another try by renominating Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel.

Pierre Bouvard is the Chief Insights Officer at Cumulus and Westwood One. In his latest blog post Bouvard cites a brand new study Westwood One commissioned Nielsen to conduct on a radio campaign run by an auto aftermarket retailer. And here's what the study turned up.

Entravision launches a new Hispanic format in Los Angeles. It's called La Suavecita, a regional Mexican, focused on Grupero and Cumbia music from the ’80s and ’90s. The station slogan in “Con Todas Tus Favoritas,” and will continue to air El Show de Piolín in morning drive, followed by Mayra Berenice in middays and the LM Show in afternoon drive. The station’s previous format, Super Estrella, will continue on a digital platform.

According to SNL Kagan Radio deal volume in 2016 totaled $522.6 million, which is the lowest year on record going back to 1982. In the fourth quarter of 2016 there were $96.2 million in radio deals done. October was the busiest month with 79% of the total transactions for the quarter taking place in that month. There were 11 deals above $1 million in October. And the biggest deal of the 4th quarter was...

Three-year deals for Salem's Executive VP and CFO Evan Masyr and President of Broadcast Media David Santrella. Masyr will be paid $410,550 in 2017, $418,800 in 2018, and $427,200 in 2019. Santrella will make $500,000 in 2017, $510,000 in 2018, and $520,200 in 2019. Both are also eligible for bonuses which would be decided by Salem's Compensation Committee.