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The sister station to Allentown's Mega 101.7 (WTKZ-AM) now has a new name. VP Broadcasting has rebranded Latina 106.5 into La Kalle 106.5 (WAEB-HD3), a Spanish-language station aimed squarely at Dominican listeners in the Lehigh Valley.

La Poderosa 990 (WMYM-AM) is the new flagship radio station for FIU football, with its play-by-play blending English and Spanish. Home men's basketball games will be added in November, and home baseball games will join when the season begins in February.

The ongoing reshuffle of former Alpha Media stations has now reached the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Connoisseur Media Hagerstown's WQCM is being sold to Family Life Ministries, a nonprofit Christian broadcaster, with the deal expected to close before the year ends, pending FCC approval.

With eyes and ears everywhere looking for an easy scoop or twisting words for a headline, every press release, earnings call, or statement must be scrutinized and sanitized, but the real issues need to have a last safe forum for discussion. Forecast 2027 is that somewhere.

After a career spent programming commercial Spanish-language radio, Jose "Super" Martinez is putting his faith at the center of the job. Great Commission Network has chosen the former iHeartLatino programmer General Manager of Miami's Bless 88.3 (WGNK).

(Randy Lane) When I start coaching a show, talents often say, “Nobody calls anymore,” or, “Listeners in this market don’t call radio shows.” That’s interesting, because several of our shows get more calls than they need. The difference isn’t necessarily the market.

Nebraska radio stations turned their airwaves toward childhood brain cancer research again last week, and listeners answered by topping last year's total. The 14th annual Team Jack Radiothon, in coordination with the Huskers Radio Network, raised more than $210,000.

Happy Friday! This week's Radio Ink Blast From The Past comes from the very recently retired Allen Power. Send your Blast From The Past story and photo to Editor-in-Chief Cameron Coats for your chance to be featured in Radio Ink.

Childhood literacy, wildfire relief, and medical research are among the causes behind Dolly Parton's selection for the 2027 Artist Humanitarian Award. Country Radio Broadcasters will present the honor posthumously at Country Radio Seminar in Nashville.

Another year of radio community service is up for accolades. NAB has now opened entries for the 41st annual Crystal Radio Awards, with 50 finalists and 10 winners to be chosen and then honored in Washington, DC, during the NAB State Leadership Conference.