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Jade Springart has been promoted to Program Director at 101 WRIF-FM in Detroit. Springart has been with the station for 15 years and most recently served as Assistant PD, Music Director and Midday Host. She becomes the first female PD of the Detroit rocker

Lemonada has brought back 'Last Day Revisited: The Opioid Crisis' with updated information from previous guests and fans. A companion podcast, 'Good Grief' is also available.

'9/11 Twenty Years Later: America Remembers' is a special week of coverage across the ABC network, radio and streaming platforms. Along with a full 24 hours of coverage on Saturday September 11; plans call for four primetime specials and a special five-part documentary series.

Bruce Collins is the new PD for NewsTalk WBAP 820 AM/99.5 FM-HD2 and News & Information KLIF 570 AM/96.3 FM-HD. Collins comes to Dallas from Alpha Media in Portland. He replaces Kevin Graham who is now programming Cumulus' KNBR in San Francisco

According to Borrell & Associates you better bring expertise in marketing to your clients when you make that sales call. Contrary to what many radio managers believe, having an understanding of the client’s business is not as important as being an overall marketing expert.

It's what radio does better than any other industry, rallying its tribe to help others. iHeartMedia’s 7-station Houston cluster, with the help of listeners, is filling and deploying dozens of trucks loaded critically needed items for the communities impacted by Hurricane Ida.

Pastor Daniel Darling, a spokesman for the National Religious Broadcasters, has been fired after appearing on MSNBC and discussed how his faith motivated him to get the Covid-19 vaccine. NBC reports he was fired for violating the groups policy to remain neutral.

67-year-old Howie Rose announced on Twitter that today would be the final New York Mets baseball game he calls this year. The long-time radio voice of the Mets wrote that he's having surgery this week,

Radio veteran Bill Taylor (William Chimka) has died after a year-long battle with cancer.  Known for his celebrity impersonations, Taylor’s career included stops at KFWB Los Angeles, KSAN San Francisco, KMLE Phoenix, KIKK and KKHT Houston, Jones Satellite Network, as well as stints at WOKY and WEMP in his hometown of Milwaukee.

IBA members will hear how they might be able to “leverage organized transactional platforms for music licenses between music owners and music users.” Three NPREX executives will share their business model that they say may save broadcasters money.