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WUKS-FM is now an Urban AC format. The station was Urban Oldies. PD Kenny J: We're extremely excited to be able to bring an Urban AC format to Fayetteville. The New Smooth R&B and Old School 107.7 JAMZ will super-serve listeners looking for a real Urban AC station.” 

IHeartMedia and Fox are out with the nominees for the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards. The event is set for May 27.

In the April issue of Radio Ink Magazine, mailing out to subscribers this week, we published our 2021 Top 20 Leaders List. Cromwell Media CEO Bud Walters was voted the number one leader in radio by his peers in the industry.

WMYX Milwaukee morning show co-host Elizabeth Kay is recovering after donating a kidney to her mother-in-law. Tuesday night Kay updated listeners on her recovery. She posted to Facebook that naps were her savior now, and her mother-in-law is doing amazingly well. Read more about her life-saving event HERE.

The Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC is partnering with XTRA Sports 1300/KCSF-AM to broadcast every Switchbacks game in 2021. The team is a member of the USL Championship, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid.

The Tampa host calls his listeners The Bubba Army. And, Nicholas Tabachuk tells the Tampa Bay Times those listeners forced him to leave Florida after his name was revealed in the Nielsen ratings tampering scandal with Bubba The Love Sponge.

Imaging company Benztown has launched Radio Merch Shop, a service that creates and operates customized “pop-up” online stores for radio stations, where station listeners can buy station-branded products.

Bustos Media has acquired KXXP-FM, from Jackman Holding Company, in Portland, OR and launched its newest Latin Mix & Reggaeton format - URBANA 104.5FM.

(By Gary Berkowitz) Did you ever wonder what you're listeners are saying about your station, its music or your on air talent? Well, here are the top 10 points that come up time and time again in perceptual and focus group research sessions.

Spanish Broadcasting System announced that Katz Radio Group will now serve as SBS’s national sales rep firm. Katz divisions — Christal Radio and Katz Radio — will manage SBS’ national spot business along with the creation of multicultural audio marketing campaigns.