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Thom Ewing, longtime Station Manager of WayFM Huntsville, Alabama is retiring. Ewing was hired in 2002 as the founding General Manager of WAYH-FM, and has been the only manager in the station’s history.

B98.5 (WSB-FM) gave lucky families a holiday to remember, with Tad & Drex’s Merry Little Christmas. Thanks to the generosity listeners and sponsors, fifteen local families had their Christmas lists fulfilled this holiday season!

WOWO’s Penny Pitch radiothon raised a total of $81,915 for Crosswinds Counseling of Fort Wayne. This is the 73rd annual radiothon by Indiana news talker.

Jordan Fasbender, iHeartMedia’s Deputy General Counsel, has been named Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary effective January 1, 2021. She will succeed Paul McNicol; who intends to retire at the end of 2021.

The end of the year Local Marketing Trends is a look-back at 2020. Gordon Borrell and Corey Elliot will talk to a few colleagues about the year that was. LISTEN

Figuring out exactly who owns what music has been one of the biggest challenges facing the two performing rights organizations. Now, ASCAP and BMI are launching SONGVIEW, a data platform that provides music users with a view of copyright ownership for more than 20 million musical works.

Townsquare Media in Amarillo has hired Mike Rivera as Director of Content. Prior to joining Townsquare, Rivera programmed iHeart’s KHEY- AM/FM, and KTSM/El Paso, and KVET, KASE-FM and KFMK/Austin.

As many of you know, the NAB has been working very hard for broadcasters, making sure they were not left out when the government decided more COVID relief money would be on the way. Mission accomplished.

The Economic Forecasting: Revenue Trends and Expectations for 2021 panel at Radio Ink Forecast Live! covered a wide spectrum of things the savvy radio account exec needs to keep in their sights in the new year. The panel last year predicted disruption and that happened; however our panel is optimistic about opportunities in 2021.

Sun Broadcasting's WHEL has dumped the Donald Trump impersonator it was airing between country songs and changed over to Hell Yeah 93.7 FM, A Hellacious Amount of Country. Country is very competitive in Southwest Florida with both iHeart and Renda having popular country stations in the market.