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It's probably a good idea to make sure you have all the permits you need from the local town before you start digging huge holes in their community. KOWS, which broadcasts to West Sonoma County and portions of Santa Rosa and Sebastopol in California, is in hot water for diggin huge holes without receiving proper approval.

House of Representatives Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte has circulated a proposal to reform and modernize the copyright office. The proposal says the Copyright Office is not sufficient to meet the needs of a modern 21st Century copyright system and needs more funding and changes to how it operates. There is no mention of radio performance royalty in the proposal.

You may recall HD Radio parent DTS becoming a subsidiary of Tessera Holding Corporation earlier this month. On Thursday, DTS announced it had purchased All In Media, a supplier of smartphone apps and broadcast systems for radio.

ASCAP has launched its new website which includes a dedicated “Member Access” portal. ASCAP says the website changes are part of the organization's "ongoing enhancements to give members the digital tools they need to make managing their lives as music professionals easier." These improvements follow the launch of ASCAP’s redesigned music repertory database, ACE.

The pop-rap duo combined with the New York radio powerhouse to bring fun and music to the patients at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. Jack Gilinsky and Jack Johnson, known to their combined 21 million social media followers as Jack & Jack, met in kindergarten.

The company’s Nashville cluster called on the community to bring toys and gifts to create their 9th annual Toy Field at the city’s Nissan Stadium. Stations NASH FM 103.3, 104-5 The Zone, 92Q, Super Talk 99.7 WTN, and 95.5 NASH ICON were overwhelmed by the response.

Far East Bay, CA, stations KKIQ and KKDV hosted their 3rd Annual Wayne Coy’s Toys Radiothon on Friday, December 2. Over 850 toys and $4,050 were donated for Sleep Train Foster Kids. Hometown Morning’s Wayne Coy, along with KKIQ and KKDV’s Mel McKay, broadcast live for 12 hours from the local Toys R Us.

Bringing in $173, 253, the 6th annual radiothon held by The FAN (KFXX/KWJJ-FM HD2) will be a great boon for Special Olympics Oregon. The radiothon was anchored by The FAN’s afternoon-drive hosts Isaac Ropp and Jason Scukanec of Primetime with Isaac and Suke.

KRRO-FM has hired Denzil Bursey as its new PM driver and APD. Bursey joins Midwest Communications from iHeartradio in Detroit. He's also worked in the Atlanta market. Bursey said, "I'm glad to have found a new home in Sioux Falls and start a new chapter in my broadcasting career. I'm excited to get started, even though it's cold as hell and the wind doesn't seem to stop blowing."

The two companies announced on Wednesday that Slacker Radio's audio ad inventory in the U.S and Canada is now part of Triton Digital's a2x programmatic audio advertising exchange. Triton's a2x enables programmatic buying of targeted online and mobile audio ad inventory.