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The duo from nationally syndicated morning show 2 Guys Named Chris celebrates 20 years on the radio this month. Produced at flagship station WKRR-FM in Greensboro, NC, the team, consisting of Chris Kelly, Chris Demm, their partner Dave Aiken.

Los Angeles on-air personality Greg Beharrell has switched up from weekends for Rocker 95.5 KLOS-FM to nights. He can be heard 7 p.m.-Midnight, Monday-Friday.

One of our regular readers reached out to us Tuesday to let us know the trouble he'd been having when attempting to upload his Q4 quarterly issues file, which are due January 10, to the FCC website. With the government being closed for business, that is impacting the FCC.

89.3 WFPL Louisville debuts a new weekly talk show, In Conversation with Rick Howlett, on January 18. The hour-long program will feature radio veteran Howlett mulling over the big issues for the city, state, and region with a variety of guests.

Growing up in the media business we've always heard about the importance of pictures. Remember those car dealers telling us how they had to be in the newspaper because of the pictures? Go to any social media seminar and the guru at the front of the room will tell you that posts are more powerful with pictures and video. So how does this translate to radio?

On Tuesday, SiriusXM announced it added 1.4 million self-pay subscribers to finish 2018 with approximately 28.9 million self-pay subscribers, 40% higher than the company expected.

iHeartMedia announced several new consumer technology integrations for iHeartRadio during CES in Las Vegas. Additionally, iHeartRadio launched its fully redesigned iHeartRadio Family app on Amazon Fire Tablet with iOS and Android coming soon.

This small radio error was (probably gladly) pointed out by a newspaper, USA Today. After Alabama's 44-16 loss to Clemson, Monday night, Cumulus' sports station WJOX in Birmingham ran a commercial for Academy Sports + Outdoors advertising Crimson Tide championship gear.

PodcastOne and multimedia brand The LadyGang are entering into a new podcast development, production, and marketing deal with the launch of The LadyGang Network on PodcastOne. The podcast will feature a female-driven lineup of pop-culture, reality television, and motherhood trendsetters.

This is a corrected version of our earlier story. As a normal, expected part of the bankruptcy process, iHeart submitted a proposed confirmation order -- but the judge has not approved it yet. Here are all the details, including the dates set which should bring the matter to a close.