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Upside Services, creator of the GetUpside cash back app, has taken over the top spot on the Media Monitors list. It clipped the wings of DuckDuckGo that held the top spot for four consecutive weeks.

NRG Media in Lincoln has hired Brooke Summers to the long vacant morning show slot AC station KBBK-FM. She moves to Nebraska from WUHU-FM in Bowling Green, Ky., where she has been for the past 16 years.

The Compass Media Networks Morning Show adds affiliates in Austin (KBPA-FM), Killeen (KOOC-FM), Youngstown, OH. (WLOA-FM), Charleston, WV. (WRVZ) and Valdosta, GA. (WWRQ). The DeDe in The Morning show is closing in on 60 affiliates.

PromoSuite has promoted Andrew Smith into the newly created position of Director, Product Integrity and Michael Englebrecht has been promoted to Director of Client Services & Business Process Automation.

Swagger Institute and P1 Learning are partnering for Rising Above. The virtual sales and management training summit is set for January 26 and 27, 2022.

iHeartMedia has announced the lineup for the fifth annual iHeartRadio ALTer EGO event. The event is set for January 15, 2022 at the historic Los Angeles Forum.

Professor Anita Hill and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford talk about her 1991 testimony in the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The four-part podcast examines the impact 30 years later on everything from politics to journalism to race.

SiriusXM has entered into a new creative programming and strategic agreement with podcast studio Audio Up. Under the agreement, Audio Up is expected to create new original scripted podcasts for the Satelitte programming provider.

Back in February, Malcolm Inniss was on Radio Ink's list of Future African American Leaders in Radio. At the time Malcom was an Integrated Marketing Specialist for Urban One in Houston. Last week he purchased two stations in Mississippi. The local newspaper in Natchez where Malcolm purchased WMIS and WTYJ has a nice piece on the purchase HERE.

(By Charlie Sislen) Format classification can be subjective. What is the line between a CHR and Hot AC station or between a Classic Rock and Classic Hits station? And how is it impacted by the differences in individual markets?