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Rock-T is the co-host of nationally syndicated The Rickey Smiley Morning Show. Along with his wife Krystal they are launching the Perfect Pair podcast. It's about relationships and having the perfect non-perfect marriage. It's the latest show added to YEA Networks’ podcast lineup. LISTEN HERE.

Don Pollnow is the new Market President for iHeartMedia in Wichita. Before taking over in Wichita, Pollnow was the Market Manager for Cumulus in Green Bay. He's also been a GM in Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Topeka, and Stevens Point in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Patrick Crocker joins LRN as Executive Vice President and will work closely with CEO Steve Swick. Crocker, who's been in radio and the 24/7 music format business for more than 30 years, moves to LRN from Westwood One.

Binnie Media-Maine Director of Programming/WFNK and morning co-host Stan Bennett has accepted the role of VP/Programming for the company. Bennett began as a part-time weekend announcer on WTHT and WFNK in 1994.

Salem’s Atlanta VP/General Manager Mike Moran is retiring at the end of July. Moran also serves as a Regional VP for the company’s Cleveland, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, markets.

77 WABC Radio has launched a new weekend show: The Greatest Show of All Time with celebrity entrepreneur Clint Arthur. Arthur is an award-winning entrepreneur and frequent speaker at Harvard, Nasdaq, Coca-Cola, and West Point.

It's called Exact Age 3.0 and our friends at The Research Director says this new report "pinpoints the age, gender, and ethnicity cells that contribute the most listening to every station and specified format groups in the market."

710 WOR/New York morning show co-host Len Berman (Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning, 6-10 a.m. weekdays) hosted a live listener event on the topic of news coverage Wednesday afternoon at The Cutting Room in New York City.

88.5 KNKX was a big winner at the 2019 PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors, Inc.) Conference on June 15, garnering four national awards, all for the station’s locally-produced storytelling show, Sound Effect.

Music publishing company Wixen is taking Pandora to court for displaying lyrics from Wixen artists. Wixen settled a similar lawsuit with Spotify for $1.6 Billion. Wixen's roster includes Tom Petty, Rage Against the Machine and others. The Verge reports that Wixen claims Pandora "knowingly used the lyrics without any valid license or authorization.”