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Beasley becomes the Vice President/ Market Manager for Beasley Media in Fayetteville, taking over for Mac Edwards who moved to the same position in Detroit. Beasley has served as GSM at WQYK in Beasley’s Tampa Bay market since January 2015.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau announced on Tuesday that U.S. digital advertising revenue for the first half of 2016 hit an all-time high of $32.7 billion. That's a 19 percent increase over last year’s $27.5 billion, which was also a record.

Nielsen gave clients no reason other than to say, "We are conducting additional quality control reviews of the estimates for Nielsen Arbitrends Fall 2016 Phase One (Aug/Sep/Oct) data in the markets listed below. ​The release date for the remaining Arbitrends Phase One markets will be rescheduled. We will provide a new release schedule soon." Here are the markets affected by the delay...

iHeartMedia has announced the return of its iHeart80s Party hosted by Martha Quinn, at the SAP Center in San Jose January 28, 2017. The event will feature New Kids on the Block, UB40 Featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey, Colin Hay of Men At Work, Rick Astley, Starship, Eddie Money, Night Ranger, and others.

The East Texas, Alpha Media station raised a phenomenal $92,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network with their 4th annual two-day radiothon, held October 20-21.

Forbes reports October will be the third month in a row auto sales will decline. In radio's largest advertising category, car sales are down, while trucks, including pickups, SUVs, crossover SUVs and minivans, are doing well.

During his illustrious career, Hubbard Radio COO Drew Horowitz has been in the trenches selling radio. He's one, like many others, that was thrown the yellow pages, as an account list, when he landed his first radio sales job. Today, Horowitz is one of the industry's most respected and successful executives. And, he's on the cover of the current issue of Radio Ink Magazine, which also features the Best Managers in Radio. One of the questions we asked Horowitz was how he believed the radio industry is going to get revenue growing again. Here's what he had to say about that, along with a few other things, in an excerpt from that interview.

In a continued sign that Podcasting is growing and NPR takes the medium very seriously, Neal Carruth has been hired as the organizations first General Manager for Podcasting. Poynter reports the supervising senior editor for NPR's business desk will oversee "Planet Money," "Embedded," "Hidden Brain," "Code Switch," "Pop Culture Happy Hour" and NPR's Politics podcast.

The “Powerhouse Politics” Podcast will be publish daily through Election Day, keeping listeners informed about the latest poll numbers and developments on the campaign trail. It will be hosted by ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl and ABC News Political Director Rick Klein.

Actor Malcolm McDowell has signed on to voice a new suspense series on PodcastOne. He'll take on roles written by writers, including Max Allan Collins (“Road to Perdition”) and featuring celebrity guest stars.