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Friday marks the 10th anniversary of The Charlie and Debbie Show driving people home weekday afternoons 3p.m.-7p.m. on The New 1037 (WSOC). Charlie and Debbie Nance have been married for 22 years and hosting radio shows for 21 years at various stations.

The debate over whether Telos' Voltair unit improves your ratings or not just got a little more interesting. In a Thursday press release, The Telos Alliance — parent company of 25-Seven, the makers of the Voltair — said new findings show Voltair "still provides broadcasters with a significant ratings advantage, even on enhanced CBET."

It's been awhile since we've heard from the team at Telos. Once Nielsen released its enhanced CBET technology and started rolling it out to PPM markets late last year, the debate about Voltair pretty much fizzled out. A flurry of new activity on the topic this week promises to reignite the debate. We reached out to Telos CEO Frank Foti to ask him about his press release, which claims that Voltair still significantly improves ratings in PPM markets. Here's what he had to say.

Researcher Richard Harker, who's been a big proponent of Voltair, was on a panel with Nielsen Audio Vice President and Director of Sales Rich Tunkel at Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference this week. The topic was Voltair.

S&P Global Market Intelligence senior research analyst Justin Nielsen says based on a 7x or 8x cash flow multiple, a sale of the CBS station's could yield $2.8 billion to $3.2 billion. The problem with that scenario is what one group head told us last week.

The Indianapolis Star has the details about the suit Cumulus has filed against Amanda Rollen and Hoosier AM/FM, which operates five radio stations in Marion and four in Kokomo.

(By Dick Kalt) Many people have a natural instinct to keep to themselves. In business nomenclature, it might be referred to as “siloing,” and it results in the containment of information, ideas, and innovation. Within a company, that containment can become a serious risk to growth and success, and sometimes even survival.

In episode 39 of Media Unplugged with Mark Ramsey and Tom Asacker, distributing content is the topic of conversation.

(By Ronald Robinson) In the late ‘70s, my agency pal and I started making bi-weekly flights from Calgary to Edmonton’s ITV studios to record TV spots for Sportchek, a provincial sporting goods retailer with its greatest national growth still ahead of it. My associate, Billy-Bob, was the agency producer. I was the copy editor and on-camera presenter, with Bill (affectionately) tagging me as “the meat.” (“Cue the ‘roast’.”)