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Josh Rahmani has been promoted to Senior Vice President, National and Network Sales at Radio One. Rahmani has been with Radio One since 2005, starting out as a Corporate Sales Assistant.

Jason Carr has been named Senior Vice President of Programming for iHeartMedia West Palm Beach/Treasure Coast. Carr comes from the 'North Coast' Cleveland, Ohio where he was PD for iHeart's WMMS and WHLK.

SportsRadio 1310/96.7 The Ticket (KTCK-FM) in Dallas/Ft. Worth raised over $540,000 for the Austin Street Center during the Normathon series of events from December 7 through December 26. Normathon began with Twelve Days of Christmas leading up to the 18-hour broadcast on Tuesday, December 26.

The hosts for this year's Broadcasters Foundation of America Golden Mike Award dinner will be husband and wife broadcasters Al Roker and Deborah Roberts. The event will take place Monday, March 14, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

The buyer of the Phoenix station is The Farmworker Educational Network (The Cesar Chavez Foundation), a California company that also owns radio stations in Arizona, California, Nevada and Washington. KMVP is currently airing a Gospel format. No price was given for this sale. Kalil and Company was the exclusive broker on the deal.

Minneapolis station BUZ’N @ 102.9 is now 102.9 The Wolf (KMNB-FM) playing country hits from artists like Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw, and Florida Georgia Line. KMNB welcomes on-air personality Greg Thunder to host mornings.

Univision New York has launched “Comienza en Casa” (It Starts at Home), a digital campaign designed to start conversations about discrimination and stereotypes in the Latino community.

The NAB fight to make sure targeted local programming using FM boosters never happens made it to Capitol Hill this week. South Carolina Congressman Jeff Duncan is leading the charge.

Red Wolf Broadcasting purchases the five stations from Jeff Warshaw's company. The stations changing hands are WDRC-AM, WDRCFM, Hartford, CT, WSNG, Torrington, WMMW, Meriden, and MOD 102 (W272DO) New Haven. Red Wolf will take over operations immediately under an LMA.

iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman and Entercom CEO David Field will discuss data and analytics during a Radio Show session on September 25 in Orlando. The discussion will be moderated by MSNBC Anchor Stephanie Ruhle.