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With March Madness on the horizon; ESPN is adding to its Daily Wager brand with a podcast and producing a series of radio specials. The Daily Wager Podcast debuts March 15 and the first of four Daily Wager Tournament Preview radio specials will air March 20.

WHPC 90.3 FM has picked up seven national awards from the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System. The Voice of Nassau Community College was named Best Overall College Radio Station and Best Community College Radio Station.

Joe Tait, Cleveland sports broadcaster, has died. The voice of the NBA Cavaliers for more than 40 years was 83.

iHeartMedia CEO, and radio's Most Powerful Executive for the last decade, says he's seeing a steady climb out of the pandemic and all signs are very positive. The entire radio industry would like nothing more than to get back to normal and as far away from double digit quarterly revenue declines as possible.

For the Spring of 2021 Eastlan Ratings will be producing ratings for Syracuse, NY, Cumberland MD and Prairie View TX. Eastlan, a smaller market ratings service, will deliver its Spring 2021 books to these markets on July  28.  

Veteran KRCC-FM Colorado host Vicky Gregor has announced she'll retire from her nightly show this summer. Gregor’s career at KRCC has spanned over 25 years, starting first as a volunteer and most recently serving as the station’s music coordinator since 2012.

They are very familiar faces at every radio conference. And, the company Jinny and John Laderer launched in 2007, vCreative, has been a sponsor of so many industry events and awards over the years. It was announced Wednesday that they would both be spending less time with the company and more time with their 6 kids.

Nielsen and Carter Broadcast Group have reached a multi-year renewal agreement for measurement services. For Carter the deal includes the PPM local market report, respondent level data, TAPSCAN web, PPM weeklies, PDAdvantage Web, and Nielsen Scarborough.

WXRT Chicago Music Director John Farneda has died at the age of 59 after a year long battle with cancer. Operations Manager Greg Solk shared the sad news with his team Wednesday. Here's what he told them...

Jud Heussler is leaving Curtis Media in Raleigh after four years as PD at WPLW and WWPL. He says he'll be announcing his next opportunity soon, which will be in radio. Here's how you can apply for his job.