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Entercom has teamed up with Detroit sports partners Detroit Lions, Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons to launch a new community initiative Vaccinate Michigan. State approved PSA’s about COVID-19 vaccination are being aired.

Rachel Ryan is the new midday host on 96.3/KSCS-FM in Dallas. Ryan joins the line-up from Cumulus sister station WWWQ Q99.7 in Atlanta.

The Pike 100 FM (WWFX-FM) in Worcester, MA has moved Mike Hsu to morning drive. Hsu, who joined the station in 2020, was most recently heard evenings.

Lori Lewis Media and Rob Wagman’s Straight Path Media + Marketing are partnering on a new marketing endeavor. Starting March 1 Wagman will be offering Lewis’s digital and social media marketing to his clients.

Q104.3 (WAXQ) NYC has extended the contract for morning show host Jim Kerr. The agreement with the iHeartMedia Classic Rock station runs through 2026.

Many of you had an opinion on the Len Nelson story. Nelson was suspended from his morning show job by Woodward Radio Group for posting nasty comments to Facebook about Rush Limbaugh. We asked if you thought Nelson should be fired. Here's what you had to say....

Appearing with James Golden (Bo Snerdley, Rush's call screener) in West Palm Beach, where Rush Limbaugh lived, Governor Ron DeSantis announced flags will be flown at half-staff in Florida in honor Limbaugh. The Governor called Rush the greatest conservative radio host of all time.

The speculation begins, including in this column in The New York Times, about who might be radio's next big conservative star. As writer Michael Grynbaum points out, Jimmy Fallon may host The Tonight Show, but he’ll never be Johnny Carson. The column also includes insight from Talkers Publisher Michael Harrison.

Longtime broadcaster George Francis has died. Francis sold radio in Charlotte, sold jingles for TM Studio, managed WAKY/WVEZ in Louisville, WTAM/WDOK in Cleveland and WMAG in Greensboro. He went on to own KRMD/KEEL in Shreveport and WMYI in Greenville, SC.

Luke Bryan has been named the Country Radio Broadcasters 2021 Artist Humanitarian Award recipient. Bryan was recognized with the honor during his appearance on the annual “CRS Artist Interview,” sponsored by BMI, during CRS 2021: The Virtual Experience.