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The company will work in conjunction with SuiteRadio to present a webinar titled “Air Talent Is Great! Building Up Personalities That Listeners Love.” It is part of the Coffee With Envision series.

Chris Young will host a Westwood One holiday weekend special. 'Workin Hard Country' is a two hour special featuring work songs, summertime anthems and current hits from a number of Country Music stars.

(By Charese Fruge') Skye Smith has the best of both worlds as the National Sales Coordinator and an on-air personality for Star 94.1 in Atlanta. She started her career in sales as an intern for Radio One while attending Georgia State University.

SportsTalk 790 in Houston is adding former NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury to its weekday lineup, 3-6 p.m., starting July 9. In addition to playing professional football for 10 years, Salisbury has worked as an NFL analyst on ESPN.

Podcasting studio Sound That Brands has hired the radio veteran as a senior producer. Jacent has been a PD at KFOG in San Francisco, WLUM in Milwaukee and Q101 in Chicago.

(By Buzz Knight) I have just had two unique opportunities to observe the radio outside the US. Here are specific differences I noticed in these brands compared to US brands:

WBZ NewsRadio 1030 AM has hired veteran TV and radio anchor Josh Binswanger as morning drive anchor. He'll work alongside WBZ’s Deb Lawler. Binswanger began his career when he was 14. From 1990-1995 Binswanger hosted and produced WBZ’s Kid Company, a live weekly two-hour radio talk show for kids 8-15. In 1993, Kid Company won a Peabody Award.

(By Bob McCurdy) A study of the Effie Awards has revealed what factors contributed most to these winning campaigns' performance in rank order.

Upside has climbed into the number one slot on the latest Media Monitors list. The cash back app knocked last week's leader Home Depot, out of the top ten.

R&B station WDAS/Philadelphia has named Adimu Colon the new host of The Quiet Storm, weekday nights. Colon joins the WDAS from Washington, DC.