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Ashok Sinha has been hired as Entercom's Head of Corporate Communications and PR. Sinha joins Entercom after serving as VP of Communications at WarnerMedia. He's also worked for Publicis Media, NBCUniversal, Viacom and Product(RED).

Hubbard's WTMX-FM announced that, after 22  years with the station, Melissa McGurren was offered a contract extension which much to the surprise of station management she declined.  

4.5 Bay FM (KBAY) & Mix 106.5 (KEZR) annual Holiday Toy Drive will be making it a Merry Christmas for foster children in Santa Clara County. More than 800 toys and more than $4,000 was collected by the Alpha Media stations..

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai made one of his final speeches as Chairman this week. He shared his views on how the FCC has been unable to move its media ownership rules into the modern era, thanks to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which has gotten in the FCC's way for years.

Townsquare has announced that New Jersey 101.5 Director of Content, Anne Gress, will add the same responsibilities for WPST. Gress said she's to become an official part of PST Nation. "WPST is such an iconic CHR station, whose hallways have been graced with many of our industry’s biggest names."

Cumulus Media has promoted Tish Boden to Market Manager for its Shreveport market where she will now oversee five stations. Before joining Cumulus in 2019 Boden worked for iHeart in Atlanta, Jacksonville and New Orleans.

Cumulus Media Chicago has partnered with NoCap and #HAPPENS to bring about The Virtual Night We Stole Christmas concert. The event benefits Project Shine and VolunteerMatch.

The company sent out a press release Tuesday, the same day it was issuing a bond offering, announcing early Q4 results. With half the month of December still to go, Townsquare CEO Bill Wilson says he now sees the fourth quarter outperforming expectations.

It's one of the biggest fundraising successes of this holiday season. Entercom country stations in seven markets raised $3 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital through the unified “Country Cares for St. Jude Kids Radiothon” series.

El Zol 107.9’s (WLZL-FM) “Radiotón de Children’s National” in Washington D.C. raised more than $257,000. The money benefits Children’s National Hospital, part of the Children’s Miracle Network.