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(Dave Ryan) I’ve seen it happen. A Program Director keeps you under their thumb, never supports the show, and only contacts you with bad news. Too many times, these people are jealous that you’re you and they have to be on corporate conference calls about budget cuts.

Weeks after the passing of Mike Arlo, the 50-year fixture at Saga Communications in Hampton Roads, the station has named his successor. The cluster's Marketing Director, Sonja Morrell, will take over the midday shift at Classic Rock 106.9 The Fox (WAFX).

iHeartMedia's executive team was in the South of France this week for three days of sessions, summits, dinners, and parties at activations across the iHeartCafé, festival mainstage, and Hotel du Cap for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Beasley Media Group's 102.9 WGMK rallied listeners for the 20th Annual Veterans Radiothon, raising over $138,900 for the Veterans Multi-Service Center in Philadelphia, surpassing 2025's total by nearly $18,000. The event featured the return of MGK personality and Radio Hall of Fame inductee John DeBella.

After a brief retirement, Verbia "Lady Vee" Harden is returning to weekday mornings at Connoisseur Media Jackson's Urban AC Kixie 107.5 (WKXI). Harden spent more than 50 years in total on the Mississippi airwaves before her retirement in 2024.

Today is the Broadcasters Foundation of America's annual Giving Day. Your donations to the BFOA are turned into disaster relief and medical grants, and, as one of Radio Ink's inaugural Christian Champions would tell you, something more life-changing than either.

Beasley Media Group Chief Business Officer Kevin LeGrett doesn't think radio has a reach problem. He thinks it has a storytelling problem. In part two of his conversation with Radio Ink, LeGrett makes the case for a more confident industry and lays out what a real reset demands.

Four national radio industry advocates from three continents walked onto the Cannes Croisette this week with 17 years of data and a single argument: campaigns that include audio don't just perform better, they outperform on every metric that matters to a client.

Four Democrats took the FCC's Media Bureau to federal court this week, arguing a March guidance document unlawfully extended discounted political advertising rates beyond what Congress authorized, potentially affecting how broadcast stations price political inventory.

Mike Fabian has spent more than a decade running radio clusters in the Mountain West. Now he's bringing that background to Cumulus Media Boise, where the company has named him Vice President and Market Manager of its five-station cluster.