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John Reynolds has been promoted to the position of Operations Manager at Beasley’s Charlotte-based radio station cluster, which includes WSOC-FM (103.7), WNKS-FM (KISS 95.1) WKQC-FM, K 104.7 FM, SMOKE (94.7), WPEG-FM (Power 98), and WBAV-FM (V101.9).

The promotions are at Beasley's V 101.9 and Power 98 in Charlotte and see Brian “Mr. Incognito” Robinson, Janine Davis, and Nikki “Ya Girl Nikki” Davis have their careers advanced.

For years, and as far back as 2011, when Pandora was the shiny new toy for consumers, iHeartmedia CEO Bob Pittman was saying the Internet pure-play company was not a sustainable business model on its own. Pittman said Pandora was more like AOL's Instant Messenger, a feature to be offered by a larger company. Monday morning, Sirius XM announced it was buying Pandora for $3.5 billion. 

On Monday Nielsen announced it will be increasing its diary market reports, that are now being done quarterly or twice per year, to monthly.

Five Country Radio industry veterans have been selected to moderate all panels to be held during Country Radio Seminar’s 50th Anniversary event, Feb. 13-15.

John Beck, who was GM for Emmis in St. Louis before the stations were sold back in February, is part of a group set to purchase four stations in Flagstaff, Arizona. Beck's new group is called Stone Canyon Radio & Marketing.

Maybe you can't make the Radio Show this year. Or maybe you'd like to recap a session later or use it as a training tool. You're in luck! The following sessions at the 2018 Radio Show will be streamed live and archived at www.radioshowweb.com for viewing anytime, anywhere...

Entercom and Telemundo Houston (KTMD) announced a multi-platform media partnership on Monday that includes distribution of content across all partner channels.

Shapiro is launching a nationally syndicated two-hour live radio show. The first live episode of The Ben Shapiro Show will air in January 2019. Earlier this year the podcast became a dedicated radio show in 60 markets.

Ray Carroll is an AE for Cumulus in Houston. Ray is also a 2018 Radio Ink Radio Wayne finalist and he'll be hearing his name announced with just a few others at the Radio Show this week in Orlando. Ray told us about one success he's been having with the City of Houston that continues to grow every year. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)