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You can’t keep a good Ram down. Colorado State University is welcoming back Brian Roth who will reclaim the play-by-play role for CSU’s football and men’s basketball broadcasts, and serve as host of the Rams’ coaches’ shows.

Although the company did not specify how the money for digital was spent with Emmis, the company reported an increase in digital revenue of 35% in March, April, and May. That helped offset national business and local spot business being down in the low single-digits. Automotive continues to be Emmis' largest category, making up 13% of its quarterly revenue. The restaurant and cellular businesses were up, and the financial and media categories were the weakest.

Following the Emmis earnings call on Thursday a shareholders meeting was held and a four-for-one reverse stock split was approved. The stock split was designed to prevent a delisting of the company’s stock from NASDAQ.

(By Ryan Wrecker) Your audience has a special connection with your personalities. How they fuel that connection differs from person to person, and the method of delivery is changing. If we’re not careful enough to recognize this new medium (and the impact it will have in our industry), we’ll miss out on monetization opportunities and the marketing and positioning of our personalities as the markets’ top talents.

Larson tells Radio Ink that Compass Media Networks has extended his agreement for syndication of The Lars Larson Show through 2023.

Content provider Mr. Master has appointed Maria Musaitef as Marketing Director. It's a newly created position at the company. Musaitef joins Mr. Master from Envisage Radio Group, where she helped launch the company as Director, Affiliate Sales and Marketing, and brought in 90 affiliates for Sammy Hagar's Top Rock Countdown in the show's first year.

Q Country morning host, Chris Allinger won’t give up the kids. After doing his final “Walkin’ the Country” for the Food Bank of the Southern Tier’s Backpack Program, he said that was it. Well, that was it for that particular event. But now Allinger is back with “2 Steps To Fight Hunger.”

Nominations close Friday for the Radio Wayne Awards (named after “Radio Wayne” Cornils, 1935-2000, who devoted his life to increasing professionalism in radio). The only way your radio team members can be considered for a Radio Wayne Award is if you nominate them.. MAKE YOUR NOMINATIONS HERE. Your deadline is July 8.

This is a follow-up to our July 5 story where we reported that WCBM's Tom Marr was headed for medical hiatus after suffering a stroke as a result of recent back surgery. Marr has been in Baltimore radio since 1967, and has been with WCBM since 1988. He died Thursday at the age of 73. WCBM Director of Programming & Operations Sean Casey issued this statement...

Thursday on CNN, Reach Media's syndicated host D.L. Hughley had a very moving interview regarding the recent police shootings. He explained to CNN's Chris Cuomo, “I don’t even go to sleep until my children come home, my grown children come home." WATCH HERE.