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Spanish Broadcasting System Chairman and CEO Raúl Alarcón has been named by Billboard as one of the 2018 “Latin Music Power Players.” Billboard's list recognizes the most authoritative voices in the Latin music industry across labels, management, media companies, streaming services, and multi-sector organizations.

Dallas station 102.9 Now announced Friday that Carter has been named afternoon drive host and Assistant Program Director, effective December 3. He will broadcast weekday afternoons from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The NAB Education Foundation offers its excellent Technology Apprenticeship Program each year to select candidates. TAP provides graduating college seniors with the connections and experience to start successful careers in media technology.

Excluding political revenue, Beasley's same station revenue was down 3%. When the company includes revenue from the purchase of WBZ-FM in Boston, the sale of WMJX-FM in Boston and a partial quarter contribution from the purchase from WXTU-FM Philadelphia, there was a 10.6% overall increase in net revenue for the quarter ($6.2 million).

On Friday Barbara and Don Curtis donated over $21 million to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the Curtis Foundation. Don Curtis is the CEO of Curtis Media.

After more than two years, thousands of dollars in legal and technical expense and the loss of thousands of WLUS-FM listeners in Durham, Wake, Orange and parts of Granville County NC, interference from an Arohi Media translator has finally been eliminated.

Dave Edwards, GM of WUWM, Milwaukee’s NPR, has announced that he’ll retire on May 30, 2019. Edwards’ career with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee public radio station began in 1979 when he joined WUWM to create a professional news department.

Seton Hall University's WSOU-FM has long been recognized as a key part of radio's "farm system." Now comes the news that the student-run station's news director, Bob Towey, was honored this past weekend with two awards from the College Media Association.

BMI has announced that longtime political strategist Michael Collins is joining the company as Vice President, Government Relations, effective November 5. Collins will be based in Washington, DC, and report to BMI President & CEO Mike O’Neill.

Can you imagine Tim Cook hopping on his private jet and heading to Biloxi or Toledo to check in with management to see how those iHeart clusters are doing? Probably not. It's more likely, if there is interest from Apple, it has to do with adding Apple Music on iHeart's massive platform and access to music labels.