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Entercom Market Manager Phil Zachary tells The Washington Post that changes are coming today to 94.7 Fresh FM in DC. Zachary says the new format will be unveiled during a Wednesday afternoon webinar for advertisers. As a result of the planned changes, popular morning host Tommy McFly and four other on-air hosts have been let go.

It took two hours for jurors to convict Ferdinand Augello of murder Tuesday. April Kauffman was shot to death back in 2012 and authorities allege that Augello and Kauffman's husband, Dr. James Kauffman, wanted her dead before she exposed their OxyContin drug ring.

On Tuesday, Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting’s President Jan Charles Gray announced Kevin Barrett as his new General Manager. Barrett (pictured here) will oversee Mt. Rushmore's three South Dakota and two Rawlings, Wyoming, stations and manage the company's five Casper, Wyoming, signals.

WSCR PD Mitch Rosen confirms to Radio Ink that Brendan McCaffrey has left the station to take a job at SiriusXM on the NFL Channel.

Buck Wise has joined 105.1 The Buzz (KRSK-FM) in Portland as morning show host. Wise will be on air weekdays, 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT. Wise has 15 years of broadcast experience.

(By Gary Berkowitz) To get some solid advice on how to make live testimonial reads more successful, I spoke with Peter Connolly. Peter owns LIVE, The Personality Advertising Specialists in Detroit. He creates and manages live local radio endorsement campaigns all over the U.S.

Get ahead of the next jump in technology at Forecast 2019 as Beasley's EVP/Strategy and Innovation Buzz Knight sits with Ben Arnold, Senior Director/Innovation & Trends at Consumer Technology Association, for an interview on the trends and gadgets that will affect your budgets and bottom line.

FEMA and the FCC are conducting a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Wednesday. The EAS portion of the test, which will be sent to radio and television, will be at 2:20 p.m. EDT. This is the fourth nationwide EAS test. Here are more details...

The two companies are teaming up to draw juniors and seniors from universities nationwide into broadcast sales through the P1 Futures Program. vCreative’s underwriting allows P1 Learning to continue its two-week pop-up curriculum at colleges which is designed to educate college students on a career in broadcast sales.

Skyview Networks has signed a multi-year partnership with the NFL’s Washington Redskins for AdView Inventory Management software and Live Read Capture system.