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iHeart's "Variety" station WASH-FM in DC is bringing back Jenni Chase to host middays. Chase held down that slot until a family move took her to Dallas this past spring. She's also worked the midday position for iHeartMedia’s WMZQ-FM, and has more than 15 years of experience in Washington, DC, as an on-air talent. Sabrina Conte will segue to host 97.1 WASH-FM’s afternoon drive.

Tonwsquare's Local Marketing Solutions division, which includes radio and digital, saw a net revenue increase 3.8% in the third quarter. Political revenue will come in at just under $9 million for the year, $1 million shy of the company goal of $10 million.

Quarterly earnings are taking place for many media companies around the country. You've been reading about many of radio's public companies here in this space. Some are flat, some are up a bit, some are down slightly. When you compare radio to the once almighty newspaper industry, you may come to the conclusion that radio is still quite strong. Here are some of the results from the nation's major newspapers.

The Washington State market held its 11th Annual Tee It Up for Tots golf tournament on September 9 at Ocean Shores Golf Course, attracting more than 100 golfers. A fun day was also a huge success: More than $25,000 was raised.

That was the report from Entercom CEO David Field as the election season comes to an end. And according to CFO Steve Fisher, Entercom took in $1.9 million in political in Q3 and has $4 million booked for Q4. Field said once this election is over, things should start to normalize again. "In 48 hours the election will be behind us, the angst will be behind us. I'm optimistic about the climate going forward. Bookings for 2017 look great."

Media Monitors says that, in the last 10 days, not only were there a lot of political spots run on radio, there were more organizations and PACs running them. And in the final Media Monitors report of the 2016 political season, there were 27,853 radio spots run for Hillary Clinton in the last 10 days compared to 3,543 spots for Donald Trump. Here's how the ads broke down for each side over the past 10 days...

Q3 revenue for the Salem's 118 radio stations in 73 markets was up 2.1% to $50.5 million in the 3rd quarter and for the nine months through September Salem's same station revenue is up 1.5% to $147.7.

The National Association of Broadcasters has been very vocal about its displeasure with the FCC on ownership rules ever since the Commission decided in August to leave the rules as they've been for decades. And now the NAB plans to take the government agency to court over the issue.

(by John Garziglia) Another court review of the FCC’s radio and television ownership rules which will likely be known as Prometheus IV is coming. Both public interest groups and the National Association of Broadcasters will reportedly be filing appeals by next Monday’s deadline of the FCC’s August 25, 2016 “Second Report and Order” which refused to make substantive broadcast station ownership rule changes.

The stations will simultaneously air a 30-minute broadcast conversation with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a “Chicago Radio Town Hall Meeting.” Broadcast journalist Bill Kurtis will moderate the meeting about the issues facing the city, Monday, November 14 at 6 p.m. According to the Illinois Broadcasters Association, programmers from a number of the stations are collaborating to produce the program while GMs have cleared the time to air the program commercial-free.