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Are marketers and advertisers still gun-shy about placing a media buy with a regional Mexican station, given the "sexiness" of reggaetón and "trap" artists and the global pop stars more universally known by CMOs and brand managers? Not in California.

Alessandra Alarcón has been appointed President of SBS Entertainment as the company celebrates 35 years of operation. She became the sole producer of the Calibash event in Los Angeles in 2017, after joining SBS in 2014 as a Sales Associate. 

(By Rick Fink) The first murder suspect was TV. Then it was Walkmans, iPods, satellite radio, streaming, and even social media and Spotify and Pandora. All were supposedly poised to kill off radio. But radio is still here and not going anywhere.

Beasley has been promoted to the position of Corporate Digital Content Director for Local Markets at Beasley Media Group.

It’s a safe bet that Howard Stern’s upcoming book, Howard Stern Comes Again, will be a bestseller. Seeing how his first two were monsters and he's more popular than ever, and all.

Sun Broadcast Group has added two new mix shows: DJ Goofy Whitekid and DJ Grooves. The pair met in college at Penn State and have been on the radio for over a decade with two shows.

As the company winds down its bankruptcy proceeding, it has been filing monthly operating reports with the court. The latest report shows $326 million in revenue for December 2018. That's down from $343.7 million in November and $349.4 million in October.

(By Ed Ryan) Lee's column about AM being dead woke up quite a few of our readers late last week. Comments flooded our website through the weekend, and, while I did have to delete a few due vulgarity, most of them made excellent points. I thought it would be a good idea to get Lee on tape to respond to some of them The interview HERE is about 10 minutes long.

NuVoodoo Media Services is out with new research that suggests radio is losing ground as the biggest source of music discovery among most listeners, the majority of whom discover music through YouTube, with Spotify and Pandora following YouTube’s lead.

The Jammin 101.5 promo van was stolen over the weekend and used by the thieves in a second crime. Not exactly a vehicle you want to be driving around in if you don't want to be seen.