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From Westwood One and Omnicast Media, The Washies is a a ten-episode serialized fictional podcast  set in 2025. Amid a backdrop of political unrest, a TV producer finds and promotes five millennials who happen to be direct descendants of George Washington.

670 The Score (WSCR-AM) in Chicago has moved Matt Spiegel to afternoons where he'll join Danny Parkins weekdays from 2-6. Speigel and Parkins worked middays together in 2017-18 before the station lineup was changed.

The National Association of Broadcasters has opened the nomination period for the 2021 Technology Awards. The three awards highlight significant achievements in the fields of broadcast engineering and digital leadership.

CDC has moved up from second to first on the latest Media Monitors list. CDC aired 69,581 spots, knocking Babbel (47,625) into third.

Randy Chase has been named Senior Vice President of Programming for SummitMedia. Chase will be based in Knoxville and in addition to responsibility for overseeing all the Company’s Country music stations; he will program 100.3 The Wolf (WCYQ).

1010XL/92.5 FM (WJXL-FM) is getting ready for the NFL Jaguars first pick in the upcoming draft. The flagship station of the Jags will host the Trevorcast podcast.

The New 93Q (KKBQ-FM) Houston has added Katelyn Maida to the Q Morning Zoo. She takes over for just retired co-host Kevin Kline.

The Sports Hub WBZ-FM/98.5 hosts Toucher & Rich got some national face-time Sunday. The duo was part of the Sunday Today Show.

In the final video of our series called Visions and Decisions, today we hear from iHeart's Bob Pittman, Bill Hendrich (before he retired from CMG) and Radio Ink's Executive of The Year Dave Ramsey about how they're preparing to strike back in 2021. Our series sponsor is RadioMax, watch the video HERE.

Is the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out having an impact on advertisers enough so they increase their ad spend? That’s the focus of our daily series of interviews with radio executives. Salem Media Group has 99 Radio stations in 35 markets. We spoke to Salem's President for Broadcast Media David Santrella to get his take.