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After airing over 53,000 commercials on radio stations across the country last week, the big-box home improvement chain is back on top of the Media Monitors weekly chart of radio advertisers. Who else made the top five last week?

As Executive Producer of the 4th annual Carney Awards, Elvis Duran is inviting all his radio industry friends to attend the star-studded event that honors exemplary character actors on Oct. 28 at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

Our thanks to Kate Lattimer-Maguire, Senior Account Executive for Alpha Media in Lincoln, for sharing this advertiser success story with us this week. Creative ideas Kate put in front of a client have resulted in a lucrative annual partnership for that client and for Kate's station. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

Cumulus has appointed Jack Swanson PD for KGO and KSFO in San Francisco. The legendary San Francisco programmer returns to the stations he helped build, as former PD of KGO and KSFO, where he led programming from 1994 until 2011. 

Thanks to the folks at Sun Broadcast Group for sharing this photo from last Friday night. The organization is welcoming Alfonso Ribeiro, Michael Baisden and Jim Brickman to the SBG Family in 2019. Pictured here with Ribeiro and Baisden are Jay Bailey and Julio Aponte of Sun. The Sun Up Front party was held at The Rooftop Bar in New York City.

JAM Media Solutions has named Donovan Welsh Executive VP of Sales and Kerry Porreca as Executive VP of Finance. Welsh is a 30-year radio vet from New York. Most recently Donovan was with Entercom's Sales Manager at WFAN. Prior to that Welsh was GSM for WFAN for 7 years.

Alex Cadelago is the Market Manager for Cumulus Media in Houston. Last month in Orlando, Alex won Radio Ink's Radio Wayne Award for Market Manager of the Year. Cumulus VP Dan Bennett is Alex' supervisor. “What makes Alex Cadelago a great leader is first and foremost his character. He is honest and trustworthy and people want to follow people like him."

(By Jeff McHugh) As a result of the recent turmoil surrounding station sales and radio company bankruptcies, your competitor may have asked star players to accept salary cuts, to take on additional duties, or work with fewer players and resources. They may also see others being laid-off and wonder if they are next. This may be an opportunity to poach

(By Bob McCurdy) Audio is ‘unique’ among media. While people can close their eyes or divert their focus away from a video message, they can’t turn their ears off. Just as important, radio can foster theater of the mind, allowing consumers to create their own visuals that can make the content more relatable.

You know you’re onto something good when you sell out a show that fast! The 2019 iHeartRadio ALTer Ego officially sold out on the first day on sale. In fact, the second annual music event sold out in less than a minute!