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Cumulus has hired Travis Daily to serve as its program director for Salt Lake City-area country station KUBL (93.3 FM, The Bull). Daily comes to Cumulus from Beasley Media Group's Tampa stations, where he worked as operations manager.

iHeartMedia says it has promoted DJ Pup Dawg to the position of program director at its Boston-based hip-hop station WJMN (94.5 FM, Jam'n). DJ Pup Dawg has spent his entire radio career with iHeartMedia, starting in Los Angeles before moving to WJMN in 2002.

Premiere Networks says country radio stations will be given access to a new holiday special hosted by musician and radio host Granger Smith. The program is available to Premiere affiliates across the country over the holiday season through early January.

True crime reigned king among podcasts in 2022, according to a new list of top podcasts published by Apple. Of the top 10 programs streamed on Apple Podcasts, four were from the true crime category, including the top overall podcast of the year.

A new memoir penned by Emmis Communications founder and CEO Jeff Smulyan has earned positive reviews from a number of notable celebrities and athletes, including broadcaster David Letterman and former National Football League quarterback Andrew Luck.

Sergio Bustos will join Miami-based public radio station WLRN (91.3 FM) as its vice president of news in early 2023. Bustos will join WLRN after a lengthy career in reporting and editing, most recently for the USA Today Network.

New data released by Edison Research shows SiriusXM, Spotify and iHeartRadio were the top podcast networks by audience in the United States for the third quarter of 2022. SiriusXM reclaimed the top position from Spotify, the data showed.

Public affairs program InfoTrak signed affiliation agreements with WRIF (101.1 FM) and WCFX (95.3 FM) in the Detroit market, helping the program reach a milestone of 850 station affiliates across the country. The program is distributed by Syndication Networks.

Samsung has named the SiriusXM streaming radio app as its best music app distributed in the Samsung Galaxy Store for 2022. In a statement, SiriusXM said the app was honored for its success in marketing, promotion, development and design.

To determine whether “sight, sound, and motion” trumps audio ads, ABX examined the largest head-to-head creative study of audio and video ads. ABX examined two years’ worth of recent testing, totaling 40,000 ads and included 10,738 TV ads and 2,779 AM/FM radio ads. Cumulus' Pierre Bouvard details the findings in a video HERE.