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Audacy is launching a new morning show on SportsRadio 94WIP (WIP-FM) in Philadelphia. Midday hosts Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie will move to morning drive when Angelo Cataldi retires at the end of the current NFL Football season.

During a ceremony Wednesday, Talk Radio 77 WABC dedicated its main studio to Bernard (Bernie) McGuirk, WABC's morning co-host who passed away earlier this month from prostate cancer. Wednesday would have been McGuirk’s 65th birthday.

iHeartMedia announced on Thursday that Jon Zellner has been named President of Programming Operations and Digital Music for iHeartRadio. Zellner will manage the programming, content and strategy for iHeart's digital channels and playlists while continuing to oversee iHeartMedia’s programming operations at its 850 local radio stations.

KMOX’s Debbie Monterrey was on the air Monday when a school shooting took place at her 17-year-old daughter's school. The shooter injured six people and killed two.

The Miami Herald (subscription) is reporting that Audacy's WQAM-AM will lose the NFL's Miami Dolphins to iHeartMedia starting next season. iHeart owns two sports-talk stations in South Florida, WGAM-AM and WINZ-AM. Which station the games will move to was not part of the report.

Global Media Services has announced the launch of Spiritual Food For Thought, a 60- second-weekday feature hosted by Malone.

iHeartPodcasts has signed a distribution deal with podcast start-up comoany Kaleidoscope, which is led by Emmy-award-winner Oz Woloshyn and podcast host Mangesh Hattikudur. They will launch with 6 new shows.

FOX News Audio will debut Common Ground hosted by FOX News Channel’s chief political anchor and executive editor and anchor of Special Report Bret Baier on November 1st, 2022.

The Kansas Association of Broadcasters held its convention in Manhattan, Kansas this week. Taking home first place in the Morning Show category – from Topeka's KMAJ (Majic 107.7) - were Shawn Knight and Danielle Norwood.

Edison Research has developed a new service to count downloads for participating publishers. Edison is utilizing a new method for determining U.S. downloads that does not employ a redirect nor involve delivery of log files.