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After being knocked out of the top spot on the Media Monitors list last week by Indeed, Progressive is back at number one. The insurance giant knocked the jobs site down to third place.

Legendary Major League Baseball radio broadcaster Bob Uecker passed away on Thursday at age 90. News of his death was announced by the Milwaukee Brewers, for whom Uecker spent 54 years in the broadcast booth. He had battled lung cancer since 2023.

The station in Salem, SC, is owned by Lake Keowee Broadcasting. A song played repeatedly for about 20 minutes on Sunny 107.9 Monday night with graphic language aimed at the President. Here's what station President Frank Patterson told Radio Ink last night...

For the past five years Sam Alex has hosted a country music show for Townsquare called Taste of Country Nights. Two months ago Alex left the company hoping to launch a similar show, one that he owns, called The Sam Alex Show.

The Alliance for Women in Media is launching a new virtual mentoring program called AWM Connects aimed at connecting young professionals with senior level executives in radio, TV and digital media.

With the American Music Fairness Act out of gas in Congress, the musicFIRST Coalition has turned its attention to another area - the reinstatement of the FM portion of the Radio Duplication Rule. They say the rule's elimination has decreased programming diversity.

FEMA and the FCC are conducting a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Wednesday. The EAS portion of the test, which will be sent to radio and television, will be at 2:20 p.m. EDT. This is the fourth nationwide EAS test. Here are more details...

Benztown and P1 Media Group will host a free webinar called Bits Are Out, Conversations Are In hosted by Benztown CEO Andreas Sannemann and P1 Media's Ken Benson. The webinar will feature Paul Kaye, VP Brands & In-House Production, for Rogers Sports & Media in Canada. REGISTER

Broadcasters took the crusade to save AM directly to Capitol Hill yesterday in the first of two days dedicated to lobbying Congress. The day opened with "Radio's Road To The Future," focused on the importance of AM radio in the digital age.

The total political advertising pie in 2018 will be $8.5 billion, according to a new report from Borrell and Associates. That's an increase of 2.5% over 2014 and over $3 billion more than the estimate for 2017. So the big question is, how does Borrell predict radio will do next year? Let's find out.