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The Program Director behind Alpha Media's AI Ashley experiment in the Pacific Northwest is heading to Mid-Michigan. Dylan Salisbury is moving to MacDonald Broadcasting Saginaw, taking PD stripes for the three-station cluster and mornings for 98 KCQ (WKCQ).

Lakes Media Network's sellers in Southern Virginia and Northern North Carolina now have access to Townsquare Ignite's digital advertising platform. The six-station operator is the latest broadcaster to join Townsquare's growing Media Partnerships division.

From AI-voiced radio shifts to cloned podcast hosts, the audio industry keeps questioning how far synthetic voices can go before audiences push back. That line is closer than many expected, with listeners recoiling at the idea of an AI stand-in for a favorite host.

Outsiders hear "small market radio" and picture fewer listeners, fewer dollars, maybe a stop on the way to somewhere bigger. The people actually running those markets know the stakes are hardly minuscule, because you can't fake local in a small town.

An outside investor is about to put fresh capital into Beasley Media Group, and the money already has a destination. A single institutional buyer is purchasing stock and warrants, with proceeds slated to pay down a revolving credit line and retire part of debt due in 2028.

Live play-by-play for all 32 NHL teams is back on satellite radio as the new season begins. SiriusXM is backing every game with NHL Network Radio's daily analysis, a weekday morning show, and team-specific channels in its app, now in the channel's 22nd year.

A year after Congress cut off federal support for public broadcasting, California is putting its own money behind local newsrooms, and radio is included. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the Community NEWS Act, creating refundable tax credits for news outlets that keep journalists on staff.

A leadership change at Seattle's only full-time news station comes with a new look for its newsroom. Lotus Seattle has elevated Jeff Pohjola to Director of News and Programming at All-News Northwest Newsradio (KNWN), while several members of its news and programming staff take on new roles.

How can radio talent use AI without automating the personality out of the show? Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio is putting that question to working broadcasters in a free webinar next month, with on-air hosts and programmers sharing how the tools fit into their everyday workflows.

Two family-built New York broadcasters are coming together. Pamal Broadcasting, rooted in Albany since 1987, has agreed to acquire Ed Levine's Galaxy Media and its Syracuse and Utica stations, stretching Pamal's reach from the Hudson Valley into Central New York.