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Because iHeartMedia wants consumers to be able to listen to its radio stations anywhere and everywhere, the company has announced that iHeartRadio is now available in the backseat of the 2018 Honda Odyssey. The vehicle has a ceiling mounted 10.2-inch high-resolution screen with built-in streaming apps in its rear entertainment system that now includes iHeartRadio.

That's just one of the questions we asked Nielsen Audio Managing Director Brad Kelly in his May 22 Radio Ink cover story interview. A lot of industry revenue, and a lot of industry jobs, ride on the ratings. In the top 50 markets those ratings are determined by the Portable People Meter. What is Brad Kelly doing at Nielsen to make your radio life better?

iHeartMedia's KISS-FM in Austin received some national attention Wednesday for a promotion called "Kiss-A-Kia." Listeners had to keep their lips puckered to the car (with a 10-minute break every hour). Whoever lasted the longest won the vehicle.

We’ve heard it over and over: Radio is not a home for the young, the college graduates, the millennials. Radio Ink took that as a challenge and set out to find happy millenials at radio stations all over the country. We'll be spotlighting those millennials, asking why they’ve chosen this career and why they love working in radio. The first is Galaxy Communications star Katelyn Pray.

According to the 2017 Infinite Dial Study, 82% of the U.S. population listens to AM/FM radio every month in their vehicles. CDs are next at 52%, digital music is at 45%, and online radio, which includes streaming services such as Pandora and Spotify, lags way behind at 26%.

CES begins this week and getting an early jump on the major Vegas event, Buzz Knight spoke to the President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association Gary Shapiro. The CTA is the trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and produces CES.

2016 will probably go down in history as an “OK” year for radio. Revenue was basically flat, political ad spending did not deliver the numbers most executives were expecting, and the deal volume was below average. So what will 2017 bring? We’ve assembled a panel of experts who spend a lot of their time predicting and projecting economic numbers. We asked them all to look into their 2017 crystal ball and fill us in on what they expect for the year to come. Here's what they had to say...

Last week at the Radio Show in Nashville, while Gordon Borrell was giving radio executives a realty check about how their advertisers were turning more and more to Facebook to advertise, he mentioned the name Vince Benedetto. Vince (pictured here) is the President and CEO of the Bold Gold Media Group, which owns stations in New York and Pennsylvania.

It's an issue radio has been struggling with for years. As technology continues to invade the automobile, specifically the dashboard, will radio continue to dominate that real estate? We talked to Scott Burnell, Global Lead for Ford's Business Development & Partner Management, about the audio-tech changes happening on the dash, and how radio is faring.

(By Bob McCurdy) Over the past several weeks, a couple of clients hit us with three firmly held and confidently stated opinions that reconfirmed that “projection bias” continues to play a major role in the media selection process. We were glad we were there to begin to address this.