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The Vacaville, CA, station raised $34,000 with their 13th Annual “Hope Begins with a Meal” radiothon on November 17. That translates to over 19,000 meals for the needy.

It's a newly created position for James VanOsdol in Chicago. He's now the Programming Content Specialist for WLUP and WKQX. VanOsdol will produce content that increases interaction with the social media channels for WLUP and WKQX. VanOsdol will continue to produce and host Demo 312, the weekly Chicago music show on 101 WKQX. VanOsdol will also continue as a part-time on-air personality on WLUP.

That's according to the detail in the S-1 the company filed on Friday. CBS Radio's 117 radio stations are located in mostly large markets across the country, including all of the top ten markets and 19 of the top 25 markets.

The company tells prospective investors that it has a strong sales-oriented culture with extensive local relationships. As of last month, CBS Radio had 900 salespeople it says were generating revenue share in excess of audience share in every one of its 26 markets.

On Friday, CBS Radio filed an updated S-1 with the SEC as it continues along the path to take the radio division public. The radio stock will trade as CBSR. Here are some other details from the prospectus we thought you'd find interesting.

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.