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New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW) morning show host, Bill Spadea, has declared his candidacy for Governor of New Jersey. Spadea, known for his extensive background in media and real estate, as well as his role in local politics.

The popular annual survey provides important benchmark measures about usage and behavior around streaming audio, podcasting, radio, smart audio and social media. The survey has been tracking digital media consumer behavior annually since 1998.

The NBA's longest-serving radio play-by-play announcer has announced he will retire after this season. Al McCoy has been calling games for the Phoenix Suns since 1972 and will leave the booth after this year.

Guaranty Media says "The Moon Griffon Show" will return to its Baton Rouge talk station WBRP (107.3 FM) next year. The show will air on WBRP weekdays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. local time, a station official said in a press release Thursday.

Silicon Valley Asian Media Group has moved its headquarters and studios to downtown San Jose following the broadcaster's transition to Radio.Cloud’s automation platform. The cluster includes four stations, with three running off the HD signals for Bolly 92.3 (KSJO).

The Museum of Broadcast Communications is now accepting nominees for the 2023 Radio Hall of Fame. The nomination process runs through Friday, March 31. As part of the process, 24 names will be selected and voted upon by around 1,000 industry personnel later this year.

Digital media and broadcast veteran Glenn Kleiman has been named executive director of non-comm 88Nine Radio Milwaukee (88.9 WYMS-FM and www.radiomilwaukee.org), the station announced Wednesday.

Fox8.com is reporting that former Cleveland radio personality Joseph Spooner has been sentenced for profiting from a fundraiser intended for a woman with cystic fibrosis. It’s a story Radio Ink began covering in late December, and it hasn’t ended well for Spooner.

(By Marc Greenspan) We all know that radio is a Reach and Frequency medium. When was the last time you bragged about radio’s strength in REACHING target consumers? Do you shy away from the advertiser who says “I don’t buy radio”?

Program directors have enormous responsibilities these days. They must produce the best content in all of audio, because the competition for ears has never been greater. They have to find and teach and massage new local talent. And they surely must help produce a product the sales department can successfully sell so that fire-breathing GM can be calm, cool, and collected while sending that nice big piece of the cash-flow action back to corporate.