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Bobby Bridges has been named VP of Programming/South at Macdonald Garber Broadcasting. He will programming for the company’s Traverse City and Cadillac MI clusters including Country WXLV and Adult Hits WZTC, with day to day responsibility for heritage CHR WKHQ

Redrock Broadcasting’s four station group in St. George, Utah aired a one-day radiothon and raised over $21,000. The contributions will benefit Root For Kids learning center for children.

iHeartMedia has announced the lineup for the fourth annual iHeartRadio ALTer EGO Presented by Capital One. The virtual event, hosted by Woody host of the nationally-syndicated The Woody Show, will feature the biggest names in Alternative Rock.

97.1 The Ticket (WXYT-FM) has inked a deal with the Detroit Lions, making it the flagship station for Lions football beginning in 2021. The Entercom station also serves as the flagship station for the Detroit Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings.

(By Ron Stone) How did independent radio stations become repeaters for national syndication? Big broadcasters started pulling local programming almost immediately after consolidation in the 1990's, replacing it with national programming they created. The reason for this was clear. They paid horrendous multiples for stations and needed to cut cost and fast.

Emmis COO Pat Walsh informed his staff that WLIB-AM is transitioning to a daily gospel, inspiration, and information programming lineup that includes syndicated programming from AURN and Reach Media. As a result, five people have been let go.

Hubbard Salt Lake's KSL Newsradio and FM100.3 teamed up to produce an original Christmas show that is a nod to old-time radio and features performances from their hosts.

iHeartMedia New York’s 106.7 LITE FM's third annual “Hope for the Holidays Radiothon” raised over $1.2 to benefit Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone. Over the past three years, “Hope for the Holidays” has raised over $2,000,000 to benefit the hospital.

Beasley Media Group Philadelphia’s Country station, 92.5 XTU, raised $253,460 during the station’s annual St. Jude’s Radiothon. Personalities broadcast live for 13 hours to raise awareness for childhood cancer research and Keith Urban, Dan + Shay, Darius Rucker and Kelsea Ballerini called into the station.

Another big haul from iHeart for the kids. iHeartMedia's WMZQ-FM in Washington, D.C’s and WPOC-FM in Baltimore’s raised over $800,000 for Country Cares for St. Jude’s during their radiothons in December 2020.