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Matt Leucking (pictured) worked for Emmis' WTHI in Terre Haute. Police found Leucking’s body in his apartment Monday morning after making a wellness check. They knew right away they were dealing with a homicide. The cause of his death has not yet been released but three arrests have already been made in the case.

CBS Radio has chosen Radiate Media as its new broadcast content traffic partner, effective April 1, 2017. Radiate Media will supply CBS Radio stations with customized traffic data for its over-the-air stations, operating in 26 markets as well as on corresponding station websites. CBS Radio has been using iHeartMedia's Total Traffic product for the last 10 years.

Bringing CBS Radio's 117 radio stations into the Radiate Media fold is certainly a big deal. CBS had been locked into a 10-year deal with Total Traffic & Weather which is owned by iHeartMedia. Radiate Media formed as an independent company back in 2011 and today provides over 1,000 radio stations, including every Cumulus station, with traffic information.

The radio stations are WCYM-FM in Attica, WBPE-FM in Brookston, and WAZY-FM and WSHY-AM in Lafayette. Artistic Media Partners is selling the stations to Lafayette TV. Artistic also owns WDND-AM in South Bend, IN. Lafayette TV is an Indiana-based company headed by Bill Christian and Mike Reed. KALIL & CO. was the broker on the deal.

The syndicated morning duo will replace Brian Peck on Hubbard's WSHE-FM as of November 14. Brooke & Jubal is syndicated by Premiere Networks in partnership with Hubbard Radio. Premiere began its syndication of Brooke & Jubal in March, and Chicago is their largest market to date.

One of modern baseball’s most famous games is going to air again. The New York Mets’ radio flagship, 710 WOR-AM/New York, will re-air the entire radio broadcast of Game 7 of the 1986 World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox, to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

The 9th Annual Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner Radiothon was held Friday, October 21 in the Alamo Lounge and the accompanying radiothon raised over $131,000 to go towards the largest Thanksgiving dinner in the country.

A lawyer for Republican state Senator Chris Walters (pictured) has sent a “cease and desist” letter to several Charleston West Virginia radio stations demanding they stop running ads that he says falsely claim Walters testified on behalf of a convicted child molester.

You may have the read the national news story about how the California National Guard is requiring veterans to repay signing bonuses they were given years ago when the Guard was trying to keep service members from retiring. Syndicated morning hosts Armstrong & Getty are asking their listeners to help those veterans by signing a WhiteHouse.gov petition to force the government to forgive the debts.

In the last 10 days, the Hillary Clinton For President campaign has run 15,531 radio ads on stations in the 85 major markets Media Monitors receives data from. But that wasn't all...