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Rod Calarco, who led WCBS-FM through its climb to number one and spent 28 years at CBS Radio, has died. His career also included positions at ABC Television, WCAU-AM in Philadelphia, KRQR in San Francisco, and the CBS National Sales Rep Firm in Chicago.

Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio is about to show what AI looks like inside a real morning show, a music brand, and a digital-first shift with a free webinar later this month, seeking to give content creators a guide to the tools and habits they can actually use.

Holiday shoppers will let AI hunt for the deal, but they want to be the ones who buy it. That boundary, plus a stubborn deal-overload problem, shapes the pitch radio sellers can make to retail clients heading into Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to YouGov data.

The most valuable podcast listeners are showing radio where ad dollars are headed. New research on podcasting’s heaviest spenders points to trusted hosts, overlooked genres, and frequency across touchpoints, lessons stations selling personalities and local audiences can put to work right away.

(Loyd Ford) Local radio sales can feel like driving through fog. You know what is billing today, but next month looks less certain. When current accounts demand attention, prospecting becomes something you promise to do later. Then later arrives with a revenue hole.

(Steve Allan) Mark Ritson recently wrote a column for The Drum about a survey he received from Anthropic. The goal of the survey was to get human input into improving their Cowork product. Kind of ironic, no? But this led into a discussion about synthetic market research.

Public media's emergency phase is giving way to a rebuilding phase. The Public Media Bridge Fund has launched a program that gives smaller local stations a coach, a tailored action plan, and a shot at implementation funding to build business models that outlast federal support.

Student media leaders spent the week in Philadelphia swapping programming, marketing, and production ideas with working professionals, and organizers say the audience of radio, television, and digital's future was the strongest since before the pandemic.

The road to LA28 now runs through radio for the National Squash League. A new audio partnership aims to introduce the sport’s athletes, matches, and personalities to listeners nationwide, with iHeartMedia stepping in as title sponsor of a season that is just getting started.

“The Future Starts Here: A Visionary Closing Conversation” puts the leaders of Hearst Television, Audacy, Gray Media, and Townsquare Media in one conversation you won't find anywhere but Radio Ink and RBR+TVBR's Forecast 2027 on November 12 in New York.