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The new channel will be called Red Hot Chili Peppers Radio and will launch on Wednesday, June 15 in celebration of the band's new studio album, The Getaway, to be released June 17. Chris Rock, Red Hot Chili Peppers super fan, will host the limited-run channel. Red Hot Chili Peppers Radio will feature music spanning the band's entire career.

In its April digital ranker, Triton is reporting that mobile listening made up 76.2% of total listening during the M-F 6A-8P daypart, which was an all-time high. When compared to March, the Urban AC format showed the largest listening gain with a 9.4 percent increase in Average Active Sessions.

WDBO is one of the country's most well known news stations and once it was known the Orlando incident was a major national event, the station was well prepared to cover it and keep the community informed. We spoke to Cox Media Group Operations Manager Drew Anderssen Sunday about the steps his team took to get the story out on WDBO and eventually all CMG stations.

(by Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti) Over the coming days, we will hear a lot about how radio stepped up to the plate in covering and serving their communities during the aftermath of the horrific events in Orlando. In particular, of course, was the response of Orlando radio as events unfolded and listeners called in to express their disbelief and shock.

According to AdWeek Facebook is launching a new service that will help advertisers determine a new way to measure how effective their ads are with the social media giant. The service will determine if Facebook ads are increasing in-store visits and offline sales. It will also make it easier for Facebook users to find businesses that are close to them.

Cumulus Media/Westwood One Nashville Country helped build homes for Habitat for Humanity, Wednesday and Sunday, in the parking lot of the NASH Campus in Nashville. Westwood One partnered with its client Ply Gem, a manufacturer of building products, for the project, which was in support of Home for Good, a campaign to build affordable housing across America.

iHeartMedia Orlando also provided outstanding coverage of the terror incident in Orlando. Chris Kampmeier is iHeartMedia Region Senior Vice President of Programming, Orlando. Kampmeier explains exactly what took place with the iHeart cluster of stations once word was out about the magnitude of the incident in Orlando. Here's what Kampmeier told us...

101.9 AMP Radio in Orlando and The Big Red Bus are teaming up to help the Orlando community. The Big Red Bus will be taking donations, of all types of blood, in the radio station parking lot from 8am to 2pm on Monday. The station adds that if local resident want to help but are unable to give blood, they will gladly accept donations of water, sports drinks and orange juice as well.

(By Randy Lane) “The program director’s office is where all good ideas go to die.” That’s a quote from a veteran major market morning host frustrated with a program director who shot down ideas immediately rather than looking for ways to make them work. That statement illustrates the clash often seen between management and talent.