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Wisconsin sports talker Bill Michaels was hit by lightning last Thursday in Eau Claire while hosting his show from a golf club. Michaels told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he was sitting at a metal-mesh table when he was hit.

Beasley has promoted Pete Forester to Director of Sales at WMGQ-FM and WCTC-AM in New Jersey. Over the past fourteen years, Pete has served as the National Sales Manager for the company’s New Jersey-based radio properties.

Cumulus Nashville is bringing Clay Travis back to WGFX/104.5 The Zone in Nashville to cover pre-mornings 5A-6A. Travis got his start in radio as co-host of the popular 3HL on WGFX in 2010. The program will lead into The Wake Up Zone, which airs weekdays from 6A-10A. 

WRRM-FM/WARM 98.5 will be waking up Cincinnati listeners in a new way starting Monday when "The WARM Morning Show with Jim and Amanda” debuts. The program features Co-Hosts Jim Day, top-rated WRRM personality and morning show producer, and Amanda Orlando, who joins WARM 98.5 from sister station WNNF-FM/NASH FM 94.1 in Cincinnati, where she was Midday Host and APD. 

The entire Federal Communications Commission went before the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday where they were hit hard about a claim back in May that a cyberattack was to blame for shutting down the Commission's online commenting system. In the end it was discovered that the system simply crashed, as it had in 2014, over the heated debate about net neutrality.

After a barrage of news reports Thursday that a pirate radio station in Austin that was airing Alex Jones content, Jones issued a statement on his Infowars website. He said he does not operate any radio or TV station anywhere in the country and claims that he's running an illegal station in Austin are a complete and total hoax.

We reported yesterday that WOWO morning man Charly Butcher passed away at the age of 61. Federated Media Director of Programming James Darby tells Radio Ink the station fielded many calls Thursday from leaders across the nation.

Those are the words of Spanish Broadcasting System COO Albert Rodriguez who tells Radio Ink the last six months were the best in the company's history. And Rodriguez is very optimistic about the outlook for the remainder of 2018.

From the official SEC filing, SBS reported total net revenue in Q2 of $34.8 million, slightly higher than the $34.2 million from Q2 2017. For the first six months of 2018 SBS's net revenue came in at $68.7 million, an increase of 2% over the first six months of 2017. So what about the radio division?

Geoff Moyer is now the General Sales Manager for Alpha Media Portland’s talk stations: FM News 101.1 (KXL), 102.9/750 The Game (KXTG), Freedom 970 (KUFO), and the 22-station Radio Northwest Network. Moyer has been with Alpha Portland since 2016 as LSM for KXTG and KUFO. Prior to Alpha, Moyer was an AE for Comcast Spotlight and Fox affiliate KPTV.