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The 28th Annual Radiothon to End Child Abuse, held December 1 and 2 on “Bemidji’s Big Three Music Stations” KB101, KZY 95.5, and Z99, raised $34,287. The 24-hour “Education, Action and Auction” event supports programs in the Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, and Hubbard Counties of northern Minnesota and has raised a total of $1,083,218 since its inception in 1989.

On Tuesday, Triton Digital announced that entertainment company NOVA in Australia has joined its a2x programmatic audio advertising exchange.

It was a remarkable, record-setting effort by the Washington D.C. station. Its 13th annual Fisher House Radiothon, raised $491,064 December 3-4, broadcasting from the Fashion Center at Pentagon City. The Fisher House Foundation provides homes away from home for the families of injured servicemen and women while their partners are undergoing treatment and rehabilitation.

Beasley Media Group has appointed Jami Beasley Associate General Counsel. Beasley's background includes her recent position as partner in Kopelowitz Ostrow in Ft. Lauderdale. Her focus was commercial and real estate litigation.

iHeartMedia Atlanta continues to roll out its lineup on the Hip Hop station it launched last month with 10,000 songs in a row.

For years advertisers have been shifting their marketing dollars to digital and there is no indication that is slowing down. On Monday three companies made ad revenue growth predictions for the year ahead at the UBS Media Conference in New York and all three stated that digital will continue its explosive growth.

That's the conclusion of the folks at consulting firm Paragon Media, ten years after the NAB commissioned the company to study millennials. In their latest blog post, Paragon says in the ten years that have gone by, what has not changed is radio's shocking lack of response to the wants and needs of younger listeners.

Entercom's WEEI has hired Rich Keefe to co-host with Dale Arnold and Michael Holley, weekday afternoons (2:00-6:00 p.m.). He replaces Jerry Thornton, who left the station in mid-November to join Barstool Sports as a senior columnist.

Deke Copenhaver served as Mayor of Augusta from 2005 to 2014. Beasley has hired Copenhaver to host a 9 a.m. to noon talk show on News/Talk WGAC in Augusta.

According to Zenith’s new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts out Monday, global advertising expenditure in social media will grow 72% between 2016 and 2019 (from $29 billion to $50 billion).