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Inga Barks, former morning host at News/Talk KERN Radio, has died. She worked for 15 years on the American General Media station before stepping away from the mic in 2010.

Heidi Raphael, Chief Communications Officer, Beasley Media Group, has been named Co-chair of the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation. She will join Hubbard Radio CEO Ginny Morris as co-chair of the organization.

Gayle Troberman has joined the NAB Leadership Foundation Board of Directors. She is one of seven newly elected members. Troberman is the EVP/CMO of iHeartMedia's 859 radio stations and iHeartRadio.

Minnesota Public Radio has announced Joe Goetz is the new Music Director for Classical MPR. Goetz joins MPR from WFIU, Indiana University in Bloomington; where he has been MD since 2014.

Mike Golic is set to host a college sports fan trivia game. The Fan Exam premiers November 10.

Sheri Lynch of the nationally syndicated radio show Bob & Sheri is publishing another book, Cooking with Cats: Favorite Recipes of Crazy Cat People and the Felines We Feast With, comes out November 16.

KOSI-FM in Denver flipped to Christmas music, as it does every year. 19 years to be exact. PD Jim Lawson says listeners have been asking him to flip since Labor Day.

STAR 102.1 (KDGE-FM), is playing holiday music for listeners in the Dallas/Fort Worth community. iHeartMedia has rebranded the station for the season as -'Your Home for the Holidays'.

We've seen two consistent themes as companies begin to report. The first is that revenue is improving every month since the bottom in April. The other is that radio companies now compare revenue to a previous quarter in the same year, as opposed to the same quarter the previous year.

Saga CEO Ed Christian, who is not a paying customer of Nielsen, spent about 15 minutes on his Q3 earnings call voicing his displeasure with the ratings firm's upcoming Customer First strategy.