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ESPN has made it official. Trey Wingo will join Mike Golic this fall when Mike Greenberg moves over to host his own program on the TV side of ESPN. Wingo and Golic will initially be simulcast on ESPN2, before moving to their permanent simulcast home on ESPNU. Mike Golic, Jr. will join the show every day from 6-7 a.m.

The disgraced former Fox TV personality said on his podcast this week that he'll be bantering back and forth with Glenn Beck every Friday. Beck's radio show is syndicated by Premiere. Beck and O'Reilly are good friends from their days working at Fox together. On his podcast, O'Reilly said, “We don't agree on everything, but it's very lively. And it's a good outlet for me.”

Two-thousand-watter WWXX-FM in Buckland, Virginia, goes to Educational Media Foundation for $250,000, according to Greg Guy of Patrick Communications. The station is now carrying sports, and EMF President Mike Novak tells us the format EMF will carry on the station has not been decided yet. Red Zebra has been selling off its stations in recent months.

Admittedly there was no traffic, since the bridge had just reopened after severe fire damage. Thanks to their wile and cunning, WNNX Rock 100.5 morning guys Bailey and Southside, along with their producer Digi-Dude, got the hop on the other eager media outlets and christened the bridge last week.

Memorial Day weekend will see a pair of special three-hour shows broadcast by the network:  America Remembers and Kelsea Ballerini’s Summer Road Trip.

Is CEO Mary Berner's turnaround at Cumulus working? As she closes in on her two year anniversary in September, Berner sounds cautiously optimistic. "As our Q1 results demonstrate, we have arrived at a financial inflection point in our turnaround. We are now starting to see the positive impact those efforts have had on our financial results."

Even though there seems to be a glimmer of hope that one of radio's biggest companies may be turning the corner, CEO Mary Berner said on the Cumulus earnings call yesterday that they have not crossed the finish line yet.

Westwood One Spot Sales, the national spot platform for Cumulus Media, will now participate in Expressway, Katz's programmatic ad-buying exchange. Eleven Cumulus markets are now live, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Detroit, and Washington, DC. All Cumulus markets are expected to be online by July.

SoundExchange has acquired the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency, a music licensing collective representing the majority of songs recorded, sold, and broadcast in Canada on behalf of music publishers. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. CMRRA, founded in 1975, will continue to operate out of its Toronto headquarters.

Monday afternoon, Cumulus reported first quarter 2017 revenue of $264 million. In 2016, the company took in $268.5 million in the first quarter. That's a decline of 1.7%. Political revenue in Q1 of 2016 was $2.9 million, compared to only $500,000 this year. Q2 is pacing flat in light of what the company calls a "very soft market."