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The hosts for this year's Broadcasters Foundation of America Golden Mike Award dinner will be husband and wife broadcasters Al Roker and Deborah Roberts. The event will take place Monday, March 14, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Nielsen has launched a Diverse Media Equity program, designed to elevate the visibility of diverse-owned media companies with advertisers and agencies. The initiative includes the first ever report on diverse-owned media reach and audience profiles.

(By Randy Lane) In the late-80s, Mark St. John (Leighton Group Director of Programming) and I collaborated to build a new morning show for I95 Birmingham. We had a fun and lively dinner with two talents meeting for the first time, Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps. We decided to try them out on the air to see if there was chemistry and potential.

The Women In Radio 6th Annual 'Cocktails, Cupcakes, and Conversations' conference is set for March 5 in Atlanta. Women In Radio was founded in 2016 by Meaghan Taylor, as an organization supporting the advancement of women in the radio industry.

The 2022 class of The Podcast Hall of Fame has been announced. The in-person Induction Ceremony will take place March 25 in Los Angeles as part of Podcast Movement's Evolutions 2022.

The latest Third Thursday Webinar from the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association is set for February 17. Barry Cohen of Ad Lab Creative, will host 'How to find 2022 election Campaign Dollars in my Community'.

vCreative has hired Drew Cain as Senior Vice President of Technology. Cain joins vCreative to oversee vCreative’s product development team, platform operations, security and IT, and will report directly to CEO Susie Hedrick.

VSiN is offering free access to comprehensive sports betting coverage available for the Big Game. The ungated access will be including 56 hours of in-depth sports betting programming starting February 11 through Super Sunday.

Rhythm Lab Radio, based at 88Nine Radio Milwaukee (WYMS-88.9 FM) has added a couple of more affiliates. The weekly urban alternative show hosted by Tarik Moody can now be heard on Rochester, NY public music radio station WRUR-FM and Ithaca, NY station WITH-FM.

Charlie Cook, Vice President of Country Music for Cumulus, has signed a long-term contract extension. He will continue as Programming Operations Manager for Cumulus Nashville’s five-station cluster.