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Woodward Communications has relaunched its Green Bay adult contemporary station WKZG with an alternative rock format. The station, which now carries the call letters WFZZ (104.3 FM), stunted with a playlist consisting solely of parody songs from "Weird Al" Yankovic.

ASCAP has three new Senior Vice Presidents. The executive trio has been involved in revenue generation, licensing and data analytics

Many of you will find out later this month when you attend the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference in Fort Lauderdale. Industry vet and Univision EVP of Local Media Lee Davis will be there. He's moderating a panel as a matter of fact.

"Automakers are far better attuned to the wishes of car buyers than Congress will ever be." Or so says an opinion piece in the Boston Globe from Tuesday. The piece took sharp aim at the bipartisan AM For Every Vehicle Act.

WMMR-FM/Philadelphia Preston & Steve Show morning personality Kathy Romano hosted the 12th annual "Kathy’s Cuts" to benefit Wigs for Kids, on Friday, May 3 at TruBeauty Concepts in Southampton. The event produced 124 donations to benefit Wigs for Kids.

Bryce Burtner is a host on BiCoastal Media's Country station (Q103) in Medford, OR. He was in the line of fire in Las Vegas when Stephen Paddock started shooting toward the Route 91 Harvest Festival from a hotel across the street. Burtner tells ABC 12 in Portland that the worst part of this whole deal was seeing bodies on the ground.

From 1971 to 2004 Tom Barberi was known as “The Voice of Reason” on Salt Lake City station KALL. He died Christmas Eve at age 78.

Topeka, KS, station 580 WIBM, along with the Kansas Ag Network and Kansas Farm Bureau, delivered 1,100 pounds of milk replacer to ranches that were affected by the devastating fire in Kansas.

Minnesota Public Radio's KCMP (89.3 FM, The Current) in Minneapolis has hired Kendall Stewart to serve as its assistant program director, starting February 6. Stewart joins KCMP from WCNR (106.1 FM, The Corner), an adult album alternative station based in Charlotte.

The power of radio was on display in Milwaukee as listeners stepped up to the plate, as they always do, to support their local community with a nudge from their favorite radio station. Scripps owned WTMJ in Milwaukee sponsored two “Stars and Stripes Honor Flights” from Milwaukee to Washington D.C. with a total of 140 Veterans on board.