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NASH Nights Live celebrated its second anniversary this week. Co-hosts Shawn Parr and Elaina D. Smith launched the Westwood One show on January 6, 2014. Today, NASH Nights Live boasts 109 affiliates nationwide.

iHeartMedia says the annual iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2015 Tour, which took place in 11 cities across the United States between December 1 and 19, generated almost 11 billion social media impressions.

In Triton Digital's November 2015 monthly ranker, overall streaming was up when compared to November 2014. Average Active Sessions in November increased 14.6 percent during the Monday - Friday 6A-8P daypart and 14.4 percent during the Monday - Sunday 6A-Midnight daypart.

They were company wide and amount to about $7.5 million in cuts across the company. Emmis revenue was down 5% in September, October, and November, typically some of the best revenue-performing months of the year for radio. Emmis' CEO Jeff Smulyan said it was a challenging quarter for Emmis, and it was a challenging quarter for the radio industry.

CFO Ryan Hornaday told investors national revenue was down 12% in September, October, and November while local was down 5.5% and digital was up over 8%. September finished down 2%, October was off 11% and November was off 1%.

It's no secret that iHeartMedia is carrying a massive amount of debt and hasn't been able to nudge it south. While walking the floor at CES, CEO Bob Pittman was interviewed by Fox Business Host Liz Claman who said to Pittman, eventually the two major creditors, Canyon and Goldman Sachs, are going to want their money back. Claman asked Pittman point blank if iHeartMedia was going to have to restructure. Here's what Pittman said...

Day two of CES 2016 and another day of gadgets to blow your mind. Expanding my convention center experience, I made my way over to the Sands Expo, which is a whole "other" convention center to navigate. Walking in to the fitness, sports-tech wing with my old friend Steve Goldstein from Amplfi media, and seeing Fitbit, Vert, Wahoo, Invoxia, and many other connected fitness items, he said, "The smartphone has enabled all of this and helped to create this category. It's the catalyst."

Scripps-owned WTMJ in Milwaukee is presenting a two-hour special Saturday night, with expanded coverage on their website, on the prosecution of Steven Avery, which has become one of the most popular programs on Netflix.

The FCC's enforcement bureau says it has reached a $540,000 settlement with Cumulus over a sponsorship identification issue at WOKQ (97.5 FM) in Dover, New Hampshire. The station broadcast 178 announcements in support of the Northern Pass hydro-electric energy project without identifying the sponsor of those announcements, in this case a company with a financial interest in the project. This is the largest payment in FCC history for a single-station violation of the Commission’s sponsorship identification laws.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America announced Thursday that Bob Pittman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of iHeartMedia, Inc. will receive its 2016 Golden Mike Award on Monday, February 29 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.