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Scott Goldberg will take the reins as the new Director of News Programming at ABC Audio beginning Monday, October 14. This year Goldberg won the National Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting.

The recent podcast revenue report from the IAB unveiled significant brand spending growth in the podcast advertising landscape. Now the Cumulus Media/Westwood One Audio Active Group is adding insights from across audio, including a sizable blindspot.

No more printing 35,000 weekly copies of the magazine Cumulus purchased in 2014. The company says it's still committed to NASH and will now use the money being lost printing the magazine into other NASH branded products.

Rocky Cosgrove has been named Market Manager for Results Radio LLC's Chico, California cluster. Cosgrove now oversees KBQB-FM, KCEZ, KRQR, and KTHU, taking over from Josh Blumm. He was VP/Strategic Development for the past 14 years at Katz Radio Group. 

Majic 105.7 (WMJI-FM) is welcoming Cleveland media vet Mark Nolan as the new host of the morning show. The Mark Nolan Show will also feature two other native Clevelanders, Jen Picciano and Krystle Elyse.

On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law that prohibits sports gambling and gives states the go-ahead to legalize betting on sports. That could create an entirely new advertising category that radio managers might want to keep their eyes on.

Popular Canadian mystery podcast Nighttime has joined Corus Entertainment’s Curiouscast podcast network. The deal sees the podcast expand its reach by launching onto select Corus-owned Global News Radio AM stations across the country this October.

Alan Stock is one of the most well-known talk show hosts in Las Vegas. He's been on the air in Vegas for 19 years now, 13 with CBS-owned KXNT where he hosts afternoon drive. When he switched on the news Sunday night to see if anything was going on in the community he calls home, he knew nearly instantly that a major event was taking place.

(By Pat Bryson) I was on a zoom call a couple of weeks ago with a very good salesperson. She had emailed me to say that she had been experiencing a rash of cancellations in the past few weeks.

Benztown’s weekend radio show Sunday Night Slow Jams announced that it is offering its upcoming four-hour Valentine’s Day Special for free to stations on a market-exclusive basis.