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Public radio station KQED/San Francisco, held a groundbreaking ceremony on a major renovation project at its headquarters in the Bay city. The new building will be a two-year, $91 million project.

Nick Reed has been promoted to PD of SummitMedia’s News/Talk station KSGF, 104.1, in Springfield, MO. Reed joined KSGF in 2010 as Program Director/Morning Host but has focused on just hosting the morning show for that past several years.

April Carty-Sipp, NAB SVP of Television and Radio, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Library of American Broadcasting. Carty-Sipp joined NAB in March 2018 after more than 20 years in senior management at broadcast operations.

Mac comes to iHeart Raleigh’s G105 from iHeart Des Moines’ ALT 106.3 where he had the same pair of titles. He also served as an on-air personality for ALT 104.9 in St. Louis and WRXL in Richmond, VA.

Beasley’s News Talk Radio 1450 AM WCTC/New Brunswick, NJ, will debut This Morning, America’s First News, with Gordon Deal on Monday. Deal replaces Bert Baron who decided to leave the station in July.

Internationally known radio DJ Nic Harcourt, of 88.5-FM of Cal State University, Northridge, will celebrate his 2,000th show on the L.A.-based Triple-A rock station, Tuesday, Sept. 24.

As part of our series spotlighting Radio Wayne finalists, we turn to the Sales Manager category today. Michael Tedesco fell in love with radio listening to the Real Don Steele on KHJ-AM in Southern California. Today he's helping make WAWZ-FM in New Jersey a financial powerhouse as sales manager.

WSB Radio is partnering with The Atlanta Journal Constitution for the 7th season of the podcast Breakdown. The show focuses on the upcoming murder trial of DeKalb County Police Officer Robert Olsen.

It's called Amazon Music HD and includes over 50 million songs in High Definition and millions more in Ultra High Definition.

On his SirusXM show Tuesday host Jeff Lewis told his audience that his 3-year old daughter has been expelled from the prestigious Montessori preschool. Even after apologizing, begging for forgiveness, then arguing with the headmistress, he was not given a second chance.