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Alan Bishop's Finger Lakes Radio Group has strategically placed two translators in Rochester, New York, and announced a new station. WCGR, licensed to Canandaigua, is now known as “The Lake," and the format is "Easy Rock."

Adams Radio Group in Fort Wayne has flipped its Gold Based Active Rocker to Hip-Hop. The new format will be heard on WJFX HD-2 & W277AK, which is a translator.

Alpha Media, Mankato, MN, has announced the launch of Mix 99.1. The station, formerly Z99 (KEEZ-FM) in the CHR format, will target the 25-54 demo with artists such as Pink, Maroon 5, Adele, Bruno Mars, and Justin Timberlake.

Manheim, PA, station fun 101.3 (WROZ-FM) is ready to get the Christmas party started, November 16 at 5 p.m., with all the great holiday songs, from classics to contemporaries. And they have a great competition cooking too.

The new Classic Hits show Throwback Nation Radio, hosted by Tony Lorino and Danny Hustle, is offering its five-hour New Year’s Eve special programming to radio stations free of charge.

Now that advertisers, and the radio industry, are paying a lot more attention to the podcasting space, does that industry need a trade association similar to radio's NAB or RAB? Radio has a lot of experience with trade associations. Perhaps it's time to share a little of your wisdom.

Two Barclays Center executives and a loan shark say former WFAN morning show co-host Craig Carton altered documents to help him convince a hedge fund to invest in a ticket resale business. Here are details from day two of the Craig Carton trial...

Listening to the radio is just as bad as walking to your mailbox this time of the year. Politics has become nothing more than a race to see who can tear their opponent down the most. The attack ads are everywhere -- on your radio stations and arriving daily in stacks of direct mail pieces to mailboxes across the country.

Forecast is November 14 in New York at the Harvard Club. If you are a radio industry decision-maker, or your business depends on the decisions that will be made in the coming year by those who are attending, register now and join your peers at Forecast.

WCBS-FM New York morning man Scott Shannon will host the 30th Annual National Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in New York City on November 15. Shannon is a 2006 National Radio Hall of Fame inductee.