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Legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf has lost his age discrimination lawsuit against Don Imus. The reason he lost was because he lives in Florida.

Cumulus promotes Louie Diaz to VP for Contemporary formats at the company. Diaz will continue as Operations Manager for Cumulus in Atlanta where he's also PD for WWWQ/Q100. Diaz joined Cumulus in 2014.

iHeartMedia has hired Chuck Deskins as Senior Vice President of Inside Sales. Deskins joins iHeart from C3 Media Advertising where he was a partner.

The Country Radio Broadcasters have announced “Dollar” Bill Lawson, WDXB morning show personality, as the recipient of the CRS 2019 Tom Rivers Humanitarian Award, to be presented during Country Radio Seminar 2019.

Dr. Ronald Hoffman’s syndicated Intelligent Medicine show started out at a 5,000-watt radio station in NYC. It is one of the top health/medical radio programs in the country as it reaches a milestone that few others have achieved – 30 years on the air.

Farzetta and Tra In the Morning will kick-off weekday mornings on 97.5 The Fanatic/WPEN-FM's lineup in Philadelphia, 6:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., followed by Anthony Gargano and Jason Myrtetus at 10:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m.

(By Rick Fink) Before we get into what we should call them, let’s start with this: are you actually conducting regular meetings? If you are, congratulations, and if you’re not, start! You need to ask yourself some tough questions...

By airing 49,390 commercials on stations all over the country, GEICO was radio's number one advertiser last week, according to Media Monitors. The fall television season is heating up and that brings three TV networks over to radio for help.

Connoisseur Media has a new campaign — “One Song, One Us” — which will be launching across all of its radio stations Monday, October 1. The mission of this initiative, which was developed by Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw, is to encourage unity, love, kindness, acceptance, and hope in our communities through the power of music.

At an Advertising Week panel in New York City, Monday, Cumulus Media's Suzanne Grimes announced that Westwood One and XAPPmedia are launching a new program to help national brands enter the voice-enabled ecosystem.