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Big River Broadcasting President Jerry Phillips, made the announcement Thursday that Halley Phillips has been named Vice President of Big River Broadcasting, and VP of all of the Phillips family businesses.

Syracuse.com has the details about Rich Lauber who is no longer with iHeart's WBBS-FM after 35 years in Central New York radio. Lauber spent most of his radio years in afternoon drive and was also operations manager for the iHeart Syracuse cluster.

The world is salivating for sports to begin again. Until then, sports stations are finding creative ways to talk sports. Beginning Saturday 850 ESPN Cleveland is adding a golf show to its lineup—“Let’s Go Golfing!”

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La Raza Radio in Minneapolis/St. Paul is back on the air after last weeks riots destroyed the downtown building housing the stations. The stations are temporarily broadcasting out of the studios at KFAI, a community based radio station.

iHeart Upstate New York Market Manager Robert Morgan acted quickly after hearing what Kimberly Ray from the Kimberly and Beck PM Drive show said on WAIO-FM 95.1 in Rochester.

In Rochester several groups spoke up immediately after the Kimberly and Beck incident, including The Rochester Association of Black Journalists which called on iHeart to do even more.

The popular Brother Wease Morning Show was in replay mode Wednesday, the day after the remarks on the Kimberly & Beck show. And Deanna King, who works for WHAM-AM and on The Brother Wease Show on 95.1 woke up to death threats.

WFNI-AM sports talker Joe Staysniak, who is white, told listeners Wednesday that black people need to say "I'm going to stop being a victim." That statement didn't go over very well with some listeners to the show calling him tone deaf.

Dick Broadcasting's Jared and Katie in the Morning on KZL-FM and Entercom's 3 Live Crew from 102 JAMZ in Greensboro, NC are coming together this morning for a discussion on the murder of George Floyd, protesting, riots, and the Black Lives Matter movement.