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The Country music superstar from Australia told The Boot how much it still means to him to hear his music being played on the radio. “The first time I got to hear myself on the radio here was mind-blowing. It still feels surreal, after this many years, getting to hear my music on the radio. The fact that it’s happened 20 times is, I never imagined that would happen, nor could it.” Urban has had 20 number one songs since 2000.

(By Bob McCurdy) Our digital offerings are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the more effective we are in communicating the immense synergy that exists between on-air and online, the more prosperous our, and our clients', future will be. What follows recaps various research findings that highlight this synergy.

(By Ronald Robinson) Radio is rife with mind-reading amateur efforts in the spots and in on-air deliveries. They must figure they’re pretty good at it, too, as they keep on doing it.

You know Kix Brooks. He’s half of Brooks and Dunn, country music superstars. And Mr. Kix  wants to celebrate the service of all U.S. military with his annual two-hour Veterans Day music special, A Salute to our Military Veterans with Kix Brooks.

He calls himself DJ Bonics and he has an impressive resume of live performances, having played stages such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, Made in America, and the UK Wireless Festival, as well as TV appearances on David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, The Ellen Show, Saturday Night Live, the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, BET, MTV, and ESPN SportsCenter.

CBS Radio has priced senior notes and a term loan as part of the $1.46 billion in debt it expects in connection with its spinoff from CBS Corp: It will offer $400 million in aggregate principal amount of 7.25 percent senior unsecured notes due 2024. Additionally, CBS Radio has set pricing for a $1.06 billion senior secured term loan B facility maturing in 2023 at an interest rate of LIBOR plus 3.5%, with a LIBOR floor of 1 percent. CBS expects that "substantially all" of the proceeds will be distributed to CBS itself, while the rest goes to CBS Radio for "general corporate purposes and ongoing cash needs."

Tom Joyner was one of 10 members of the media industry acknowledged at the 14th Annual Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts, held Thursday, October 6 in New York’s Gotham Hall. The event, which was presented by the International Radio and Television Society Foundation, benefits the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation. We've listed all of this year's Giants...

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The radio industry has pretty much come to the realization that 100% ownership of the automobile dashboard is ancient history. The challenge has turned to how radio competes with everything coming available to the consumer on that all-important real estate. And just when you thought you were getting a grip on who the competition was for the dash, OnStar decides to get into the battle.

Emmis reported earnings for June, July, and August, and while the markets Emmis operates in were up 1%, according to Miller-Kaplan, Emmis was down 3.8% (from $47.6 million to $46.0 million). So what happened?