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Alpha Media Joliet host Todd “Bossman” Boss raised $9,830 in food and monetary donations with a 55-hour hunger strike. The hunger strike helped benefit The Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry.

The network has signed a new multi-year agreement with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He'll continue hosting the daily feature, A Better Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The 60-second weekday feature – which promotes better living through better health, wellness, and lifestyle – airs 400 stations nationwide, including nine of the top 10 markets.

The recent decision by the DOJ not to modify the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees has now lead to threatened lawsuits and congressional action. The big question now is what this all means to managers at radio stations around the country. And to get the perfect answer we turn to broadcast attorney John Garziglia.

(by Bob McCurdy) In the past I've written about dealing with many of the largest and most sophisticated marketers and agencies in the country, but over the past several years I've re-discovered that dealing with the local business owner is equally rewarding and in some ways, even more challenging. Here's why...

Two local guys in Columbia, SC, both with more than 20 years of radio industry experience, have partnered to purchase country radio station WWNQ 94.3 The Dude. Kirk Litton and Keith Stover of Midlands Media Group and have purchased WWNQ. The format will remain Country.

This is a follow-up to a story we reported on Friday. John Mason and Angie Starr, hosts at Radio One's 105.9 in Detroit, were ordered to jail last week for not paying back over $4,000 they borrowed for a 2008 party they threw on New Year's Eve. Mason told WDIV-TV they avoided jail time by paying the money back last week. He said both he and Starr had been making payments through wage garnishment.

Undeniable with Joe Buck is back for a second season beginning August 11. The show features Buck in a series of one-hour interviews with sports stars. The series is produced for radio by AT&T/DIRECTV and Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Television.

Fox 2 in Detroit has the details about John Mason and Angie Starr who were ordered to jail Thursday by a judge in Detroit. The TV station says they borrowed money to throw a 2008 New Year's Eve party and never paid back the loan.

James Robinson is the new VP of Sales for the iHeartMedia's Washington D.C. cluster. Robinson has 17 years of radio under his belt and previously worked in St. Louis as iHeart's GSM.

In Q2 Cumulus owned radio stations actually saw a slight increase in revenue, up $466,000 or 0.2%, with revenue of $210 Million. Westwood One had a horrible quarter, down over $12 million, or 13.8%, compared to the same quarter in 2015.