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(By Ronald Robinson) Recently, pundits have been doing very little to restrain their delight at the diminishing audience penetration of television. The implication has been that television’s loss will, somehow, be transformed into radio’s gain.

(By Bob McCurdy) How “meaningful” are we to our clients and how much “value” do we generate for them? Do you bring stun-and-awe professional value to the clients with whom you work? Would they agree? Has this value been increasing each year?

Radio and CMT personality Cody Alan welcomed country star Dustin Lynch to Seacrest Studio at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, where he met young patients and their families.

1010 WINS Sports Director and AM Drive Host Marc Ernay(left), Weiss Agency EVP Heather Cohen and JVC CEO John Caracciolo were all inducted into The Hofstra Hall of Fame this past weekend. 1010 WINS AM News Anchor Lee Harris (r) a previous inductee was the MC.

O'Reilly In The Morning, hosted by longtime morning man Phil O’Reilly, will be broadcast on WLKI 100.3/Angola, IN, starting April 1. WLKI is the flagship of Swick Broadcasting in Angola. He is also joining the national lineup at Local Radio Networks’ 24/7 Music Formats.

It's been radio's calling card forever. What makes radio different is the local connection. Radio can outperform every competitor by excelling at local. We also hear that content is king. So, does it really matter if you're local with bad content, when you can pipe in a strong and successful syndicated show?

With EMF purchasing WYAY-FM from Cumulus, the Braves have been moved to Rocker WNNX-FM (100.5). WYAY was part of a larger $103.5 million deal Cmulus made with EMF.

Dave Hill has been named Senior Vice President of Programming for iHeart Indianapolis. In addition, He will serve as PD for Q95 and ALT 103.3. iHeart promotes Hill to SVP in Indianapolis from Miami where he was PD for BIG 105.9 .

Ochs tells Radio Ink he is no longer the Station Manager/talk show host at WHFS in Tampa and says he's available to work in management or on the air. You can reach him at [email protected].

Carletta Blake is now PD at WGAR-FM Cleveland and Jason Carr is the new PD for 106.5 The Lake. Blake joins Cleveland’s Country 99.5 WGAR from iHeart Raleigh where she was PD and midday host for B93.9. Carr joined iHeartMedia Cleveland in 2018.