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Happy Friday! This week’s Blast From The Past features former California air talent and voiceover artist Jerry Bishop. Send your Blast From The Past to Editor-in-Chief Cameron Coats for your chance to be featured.

Guideline is moving forward with the expansion of its Ad Intelligence Insights service with the release of Local Dynamics, a subscription report designed to enable agencies, publishers, and station groups to meet evolving market demand with transaction-level benchmarking.

In April 2021, he was hired by American General Media to lead its eight stations in Albuquerque. Now, he's heading to St. Simons Island, Ga., to oversee a group of local radio stations serving the Brunswick, Ga., market, due north of Jacksonville.

“By integrating AURN’s culturally connected audiences with AdGrid’s advanced data and identity solutions, brands can seamlessly extend messaging across programmatic display, audio streaming, mobile and connected TV,” the companies said in an announcement.

The "JJ On the Mic personality" and "My Pastor Said" podcast host will be reaching listeners on HMG's flagship KSBJ-FM in Houston and the Worship 24/7 national network. JJ Simmons is widely known for her heart for ministry, cultivating a closely connected relationship with her audience through authenticity.

The introduction of the mSurvey is a dramatic change in radio measurement, reflecting how audiences engage and interact with media in a mobile context. The mSurvey platform is designed to improve audience participation and the quality and granularity of the data captured, particularly among younger demographics. 

The skeptics haven't gone away. But neither has radio. The proof isn't theoretical. Radio Ink asked the Top 20 Leaders in Radio to share a development or moment from the past year that strengthened their belief in radio's long-term future. Here's what they told us.

Since the radiothon’s inception, an Audacy AM Talk station in its home market of Philadelphia has helped raise more than $1.8 million for military-focused organizations. All proceeds go towards supporting the foundation’s programs designed to empower veterans and families of the fallen.

Four Wisconsin broadcasters have been selected as "Local Broadcast Legends" by the Michelle Vetterkind-led Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, and will be recognized at a keynote lunch during the 2026 WBA Summer Conference.

In March, Radio Ink delivers our first-ever issue dedicated entirely to Christian radio: a format where faith, community, and commerce converge to create one of the industry's most resilient success stories.