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iHeartMedia, was the recipient of nine Stevie® Awards at the tenth annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service in Las Vegas on March 4. The awards honor companies that set the industry’s highest standards of excellence for sales, business development, contact centers, and customer service.

Harold Austin is a partner at Global Media where he oversees all aspects of Global Media’s portfolio of Hispanic-based clients, with special emphasis on music testing, callout, and focus groups. Austin is an award-winning radio programmer and consultant with more than 25 years of experience in multiple formats...

That's according to Steven Passwaiter, the director-business development for Kantar Media's Campaign Analysis Group. In an Ad Age interview Passwaiter says that increase has a lot to do with how radio's biggest company, iHeartmedia has set up shop in Washington this year, specifically targeting political campaigns and explaining how radio can target voters.

Panel handouts and sessions from Country Radio Seminar 2016 are now available for this year’s attendees to view and stream. All content can only be accessed through www.CountryRadioSeminar.com. This past year’s CRS convention took place Feb. 8-10, 2016 at the Omni Hotel in downtown Nashville, Tenn.

Media Monitors released its update on the primary election and the spots candidates ran on the radio in its monitored markets between February 26 and March 6. Hillary Clinton ran the most ads, totaling 6,815. 3,738 ran from her campaign, 2,906 from her Super PAC Priorities USA ACTION, and another 171 were purchased by the SEIU COPE (Service Employees International Union). Bernie Sanders was in 2nd place followed by Ted Cruz.

We've certainly given plenty of ink to the controversy surrounding the FCC's plan to allow AM stations on the same frequency as Clear Channel AMs to retain power at night. As broadcast attorney David Oxenford points out in his latest blog there are plenty of other issues up for discussion regarding the Commission's AM Revitalization plan and comments are due this month.

NRG Omaha sports talker Nick Bahe was a guest on his own radio show Monday. Bahe told his listeners the tumor that has kept him off KOZN-AM since February 17 is benign and he plans to return to his shift this week. His February 16 segment, where he announced he was taking health leave to have a tumor removed from his chest, generated nearly 17,500 podcast plays. Bahe is one of Radio Ink’s 2015 Top 30 Local Sports Talkers in America.

Recognizing the consistent growth and importance of the Hispanic market, on Monday iHeartMedia launched Rumba 106.5, calling it "Tampa and Sarasota's Spanish Tropical-formatted station." The 106.5 dial position became available after iHeart moved its country station in that market to 92.1. Rumba's lineup will include Angel Johnny during middays, with the entire on-air lineup being announced in the near future.

That's according to research from the soon-to-be-released Infinite Dial 2016 study from Edison Research and Triton Digital. Edison reports that the percentage of Americans 12+ who say they have listened to a podcast in the last month is now 21%, up from 17% last year. That number represents about 57 million Americans. Edison and Triton will be hosting a webinar on the study this Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern.

TuneIn and the NBA have inked a multiyear partnership that will allow the streamer to carry all NBA games in the United States beginning with the 2016-17 season on TuneIn Premium. A TuneIn Premium subscription is $7.99 per month.