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(By Ronald Robinson) Fine. Let’s just acknowledge there are a couple of hundred fantastic radio stations operating around the country. These outfits are sporting superior staffs, generating terrific numbers, and have eager advertisers lined out the door.

The GAB Radio Talent Institute opens today with Mike McVay and CMG's Tim Clarke. They will be followed, over the next 10 days, by 40 broadcasters from Cumulus, Cox, Beasley, Entercom, Urban One and iHeart.

Mathew Rydberg, known as Matt McKay on Alpha’s KFRX-FM in Lincoln, who was arrested and charged with domestic assault April 20th will not be returning to his job. The station posted this short message to Facebook.

That's what St. Louis Public Radio contends with the launch of its new podcast, The Gateway, another short (7-15 minutes), daily news podcast. Here's what they had to say about the new show.

Gulf Coast Media, which operates three FM signals in Panama City will be broadcasting all of President Donald Trump's speeches from now until the 2020 election. Gulf Coast owns 3 stations in the market.

Launching May 17, CRE News Hour is a recorded one-hour show that will be distributed on the StateBroadcastNews.com website through traditional podcast platforms. It will publish on the SBN website and podcast channels at 8:00 a.m. ET every Friday.

Jared Fallon has been named Program Director for 106.1 KISS FM. Fallon joins the Seattle market from iHeartMedia’s Q102 Philly, where he most recently served as PD and afternoon drive host.

Stitcher has added two industry veterans to its leadership. Sarah van Mosel (pictured) will join Stitcher as Chief Revenue Officer, and Daisy Rosario will join the content team as Executive Producer.

Rahul Sabnis has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer & Executive Vice President for the newly-branded in-house creative group TheStudio at iHeartMedia.

A big part of that drop -- between $500K to $800K -- was blamed on a ransomware attack that affected the entire company, according to CFO Peter Thompson. It cost the company another $500,000 on the expense line to get the issue fixed. The company did not pay ransom to anyone to resolve the matter. Here's what happened.