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Trip Reeb Adds Seattle to Hubbard Duties

Trip Reeb adds VP/Market Manager for Hubbard's cluster in Seattle, effective July 18. Reeb replaces exiting VP/MM Wheeler Morris, who announced that he has accepted a position with Townsquare Media as their Market President in Fort Collins, CO. Reeb will continue as VP/Market Manager for Hubbard Radio in Phoenix. In his nearly 50-year radio career, Reeb has managed stations More

Nielsen Releases New June 2022 Audio Today Report

Nielsen

Nielsen has released the newest issue of the Audio Today report, profiling how Americans use Broadcast Radio, Podcasts and Streaming and Satellite Radio. With consumption at all-time highs, the audio landscape has never had more potential for advertisers as the country emerges from More

iHM Reveals First Slate of NextUp Initiative Podcasts

iHeart Podcast Network

iHeartMedia has announced the first slate of podcasts from its NextUp Initiative. iHM says NextUp aims to empower participants of all backgrounds by giving them the tools to succeed in the podcast industry: from developing and marketing a podcast to using software. The first podcast More

iHeartMedia/Wisconsin SVP/P Bailey Coleman Exits

Bailey Coleman

iHeartMedia/Wisconsin Senior VP of Programming Bailey Coleman exits the company where she oversaw all of its formats at its clusters in Milwaukee and Madison. She also served as Vice President of Programming for the company's eight station cluster New Orleans. Coleman joined the New Orleans group in 2020 More

Audacy Reveals Lineup for BIG 98.1 in Philadelphia

Trey Morgan

Audacy reveals the full weekday lineup for newly launched WOGL-FM (BIG 98.1) in Philadelphia, effective July 1. Air personality Trey Morgan (pictured) will join the station as afternoon host and will be heard from 2-7pm ET. The station's lineup will also feature Sybil Summers in its midday slot from 10am-2pm More

Joe Madison Signs New Multi-Year Deal with SiriusXM

Joe Madison

SiriusXM signs veteran broadcaster Joe Madison to a new multi-year deal to continue hosting "Joe Madison The Black Eagle." The program airs weekdays from 6-10 am ET on Urban View channel 126 and the SXM App. In addition to being a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame, Madison is a civil rights activist, More

Cumulus Albuquerque Sweeps NMBA Excellence Awards

Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media/Albuquerque swept the New Mexico Broadcasters Association (NMBA) Excellence in Broadcasting Awards Tuesday, bringing home 12 of the NMBA's 19 annual awards for broadcasters. Cumulus Albuquerque's 96.3 News Radio KKOB was honored with eight awards, including Station of the Year, Newscaster of More

Josh Jensen Named Creative Director for iHeartMedia Duo

Josh Jensen

iHeartMedia Country WMZQ-FM/Washington, DC and WPOC-FM/Baltimore appoint Josh Jensen as Creative Director, starting on July 1. He replaces Bernie Lucas, who retired last April. Jensen joins iHeartMedia from The Mix Group. Previously, he was Imaging Director for Alternative KYSR-FM (ALT 98.7)/Los Angeles. More

Market Vet Jamey Karr Takes Middays on KGNC/Amarillo

Jamey Karr

Market vet Jamey Karr returns to Alpha Media as midday host for Country KGNC-FM/Amarillo, TX. He replaces Kelsey Schuler, who made the move to Country WZZK-FM in Birmingham in March. Before retiring, Karr was with crosstown Townsquare Media AC KMXJ (Mix 94.1). Previously, Karr spent 18 years with Alpha Media More

SummitMedia Omaha Names Brad Gould as Market President

Brad Gould

SummitMedia names 20-year media vet Brad Gould as President of its five-station cluster in Omaha. Most recently, Gould served as Executive Vice President of Business Development at LaneTerralever, the longest tenured marketing agency in the state of Arizona. Previously, he spent nine years with Clear Channel More

NPR Ups Sangweni to VP/P and New Content Development

Yolanda Sangweni

NPR elevates Yolanda Sangweni to Vice President of Programming and New Content Development. Sangweni came to NPR in 2020 from Luminary, where she was the Director of Programming and Editorial. Since joining NPR, Sangweni has overseen the launch of "The Limits with Jay Williams," the evolution of "It's Been a More

Edison Podcast Metrics to Increase Sample Size by 150%

Edison Research

Edison Research will increase the sample size for Edison Podcast Metrics by 150% beginning in July. Going forward, fully 5,000 interviews will be conducted each quarter, all among 'weekly podcast listeners' in the U.S. - those who say they have listened to at least one podcast in the week before they are More

Veteran Programmer Cat Collins Exits Townsquare VP Post

Cat Collins

Cat Collins is leaving Townsquare Media as Vice President of CHR and Hot AC Content to run his consulting agency fulltime, effective immediately. He also served as Regional Content Director for Boise, Bismarck, Sioux Falls, Tri-Cities, Twin Falls and Yakima, and was the showrunner for "Pop Crush." Prior to More

''Radio Works for Agriculture'' Presentation Set for July 20

Radio Advertising Bureau

As part of RAB's Radio Works initiative, the next live presentation in the series is entitled "Radio Works for Agriculture." The presentation will help sellers prospect within the agriculture and farming industry. Set for noon CT on Wednesday, July 20, Spencer Chase, managing editor for Agri-Pulse and 2022 More

Dorin Dickerson Joins The Fan/Pittsburgh Morning Show

Dorin Dickerson

Audacy taps former NFL veteran Dorin Dickerson to join KDKA-FM (93.7 The Fan) in Pittsburgh. He'll serve alongside "The Fan Morning Show" co-hosts Colin Dunlap and Chris Mack, weekdays beginning August 1. Dickerson played for the University of Pittsburgh and was a seventh-round draft pick to the Houston More

Acast Adds Goers, Baban to Product Leadership Team

Acast

Acast moves Stacey Goers into the role of Senior Manager, Product, to focus on the company's podcast subscription offerings. Goers, who joined Acast as Product Manager a year ago, will oversee the podcast membership offering Acast+ -- as well as Acast's product line for customers who want to add podcast More

iHM Announces First-Ever Black Effect Podcast Festival

Black Effect

iHeartMedia and Charlamagne Tha God have announced the first-ever Black Effect Podcast Festival to celebrate Black voices in the podcast industry. The event will take place Sunday, August 28 at the Avant Gardner, Brooklyn Mirage. Charlamagne Tha God will join the festival alongside some of the Black Effect's More

HitPredictor Introduces Streaming Music Consumption Report

HitPredictor

HitPredictor, a music industry predictive service, introduces MegaHitPredictor to gauge a broader measure of success for songs, including high streaming potential. HitPredictor tests new music with U.S. music consumers to predict the hit potential of new songs on radio. It's a More

Forge 103.9 Bakersfield Adds The Baka Boyz to Afternoons

The Baka Boyz

The World-Famous Baka Boyz (aka Eric and Nick Vidal) add KBDS-FM (Forge 103.9) in Bakersfield as the newest affiliate for their daily show. The program launched in summer, 2021 in partnership with Compass Media Networks and Oceanic Tradewinds. Forge 103.9 Program Director Maria More

Triton Digital Releases May, 2022 U.S. Podcast Report

Triton Digital

Triton Digital has released its May 2022 U.S. Podcast Report. For the the reporting period (May 2-29), Stitcher Media remained in the #1 spot on the Top Networks Report for the month of May with 59.6 million Average Weekly Downloads and 14.8 million Average Weekly Users. NPR came in More

iHeartMedia Jacksonville Ups Stacey Lawrence to SVP/Sales

Stacey Lawrence

iHeartMedia promotes 23-year industry vet Stacey Lawrence to Senior Vice President of Sales for Jacksonville, FL, effective immediately. Most recently she was the cluster's VP/Sales for the past two and a half years. Lawrence began her career in Manhattan, NY with Hibu (formerly known as YellowBook USA) More

Hope Media Group's NGEN Radio, WAY Now to Consolidate

Hope Media Group

Hope Media Group will consolidate hip-hop and pop music digital streams NGEN Radio and WAY Now, on Friday, July 15. This follows the recent merger of Hope Media Group (HMG) with Way Media into a single media organization, operating as Hope Media Group and headquartered in Houston. More