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The Radio Music License Committee has announced the filing of an antitrust complaint against Global Music Rights concerning what the RMLC calls anticompetitive behavior. Global Music Rights was founded in 2013 by Irving Azoff and represents music rights holders for the licensing of their public performances.

According to Nielsen, seven out of ten adults were aware of the Chicago Town Hall meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The meeting was organized by radio stations in the city of Chicago and all of them broke format to broadcast the 30 minute interview conducted by Bill Kurtis.

(By Bob McCurty) We were visiting an agency earlier this week and the subject of big data and its role in the election came up. We mentioned we’d heard a TV pundit state that, based on the results and how wrong big data got it, that it was “dead.” The agency suggested that it surely wasn’t but that it might be somewhat “wounded.”

The NBA has fined Warriors head coach Steve Kerr $25,000 for criticizing referees during an interview on KNBR in San Francisco. According to SFGate.com Kerr was critical of a missed call in a Warrior's game and was also critical of refs not calling traveling. The NBA does not take kindly to coaches publicly calling out their officials and slapped Kerr with the big fine.

Bonneville’s News and Sports station KTAR (Phoenix) is adding a local evening news-driven talk show, Reality Check with Darin Damme, on January 3. Damme, who started in radio at the age of 12 at KMOG in Payson, is a former highly-rated Top 40 morning show host on KZZP and KZON in Phoenix.

"An American Country Christmas with Kix Brooks" has become an annual tradition. This year’s guests include Jason Aldean, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney, Brett Eldredge, Rascal Flatts, Miranda Lambert, Florida Georgia Line, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban.

Hubbard in St. Louis has named Scott Roddy PD for 106.5 The Arch. Roddy has been the acting PD of The Arch since September and he's been PD for sister station 92.3 WIL.

Westwood One is offering four one-hour AC Christmas Specials, available each Saturday from November 26 through December 1, 2016. Each Christmas Special can air on the noted Saturday from 6 a.m. to Midnight. The specials are…

You still hear people say they remember where they were when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. WBAP 820 AM is helping to preserve history for posterity by donating 21 original tapes from the station’s coverage of the events of November 22, 1963 in Dallas.

2016 will probably go down in history as an “OK” year for radio. Revenue was basically flat, political ad spending did not deliver the numbers most executives were expecting, and the deal volume was below average. So what will 2017 bring? We’ve assembled a panel of experts who spend a lot of their time predicting and projecting economic numbers. We asked them all to look into their 2017 crystal ball and fill us in on what they expect for the year to come. Here's what they had to say...