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It’s a new (scripted) podcast called Gossip. Gossip which centers on three unlikely female friends: Valerie (Victoria Rowell), Mia (Amanda Perez), and Bethany (Allison Raskin). Each week, they meet at the Golden Cup Coffee Corner to drink coffee and share the latest gossip floating around their not-so-traditional suburban town, Golden Acres.

Mark Sturcken has been named Senior Vice President of Sales for iHeartMedia in West Palm Beach and Ft. Pierce. iHeart West Palm Beach owns and operates WLDI-FM, WKGR-FM, WOLL-FM, WZZR-FM, WRLX-FM, WJNO-AM, WBZT-AM, and WRLXHD2-FM, and in Ft. Pierce, the company owns and operates WAVW-FM, WQOL-FM, WCZR-FM, and WZTA-AM/FM.

Brian Harrington has been named General Sales Manager for WZRL (Hip Hop) and WNDE (Sports). Harrington joins the Indianapolis Market from Woof Boom Radio, where he most recently served as an Account Executive.

The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group has named Mercedes Martinez — host of Mercedes in the Morning on KMXB Mix 94.1, Las Vegas — as the recipient of the 2018 MIW Airblazer Award. Martinez has worked in the Las Vegas market, and as a morning host on Mix 94.1, since 1997.

KKSE/Denver has appointed Dave Tepper as its new Program Director, beginning Wednesday. Tepper joins Altitude 950 following a successful stint as Operations Manager of NRG Media’s five-station cluster in Omaha.

WKYS/Washington, DC, (93.9 FM) is bringing back DJ Quicksilva as the host of the all-new Quicksilva Show. The afternoon show will air on both WKYS/93.9 and Quicksilva’s hometown of Baltimore (WERQ/92Q).

(By Laurie Kahn) There are a few broadcasters who have done an outstanding job of reaching out to the younger generations. Overall, most of us really need to embrace big changes in how to “attract, hire, and retain” all ages, and not just the younger groups.

After knocking The Home Depot from the number one position on the Media Monitors weekly chart last week, GEICO remains radio's number one advertiser for the second week in a row after airing 43,097 commercials on radio stations all across the country.

(By John Garziglia) Alex Jones, a self-described libertarian and paleoconservative and publisher of the infowars.com website, is broadcast on 114 radio stations. Recently, his content was removed by YouTube, Facebook and Apple. Is there a case to be made that radio stations should likewise question his broadcast content?

Our thanks to Chris Ganoudis, General Manager for JVC Media in Orlando, for sharing his Pizza Hut success story with us. It's great to see a hugely successful national chain with an amazingly strong local relationship. Meghan Strongrich is the Marketing Director for the store with whom JVC works closely in that market. In all, Meghan is responsible for the marketing for over 130 Pizza Hut locations, which makes the relationship between the two organizations even more special. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media).