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The folks at St. Louis' 105.7 The Point know how to get those charity dollars rolling in. The long-awaited Rizzuto Show “Lock In” Punishment saw hosts Burton, Moon, and Patrico spending 24 hours straight together in a booth at Gingham's Homestyle Restaurant in St. Charles, Missouri. In addition to the station's radiothon, the final tally of donations was $52,964.

United Stations Radio Networks has signed a deal to partner with celebrity and entertainment news website THE BLAST.com to create exclusive content for its affiliated radio stations.

iHeartRadio has created “Your Weekly Mixtape," a personalized playlist for each listener, updated each Monday. iHeart is rolling out the new feature to all registered users. It is a personalized playlist with music from the listener’s favorite artists and songs, as well as new releases and trending music fine-tuned for each individual listener every week.

Alpha Media sent out a press release at 1AM this morning that stated Larry Wilson is stepping down as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the company. Under Wilson's leadership, Alpha has grown to 225 stations in 48 markets. No reason was given for the change.

Megan Stone has been named co-host of WEBE 108 Connecticut’s WEBE Wake Up Morning Show with Jay Michaels. The popular morning radio show serves radio listeners in Fairfield and New Haven counties and airs weekdays 5:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

(By Bob McCurdy) Digital marketing has unleashed an obsession with efficiency and short-termism, one that's trading long-term brand-building, for short-term ROI, and it's negatively impacting the brand, business growth, and profit.

(By Jeff McHugh) When is the last time you attended a convention with over 2,000 attendees? At Podcast Movement 2018 in Philadelphia last week, my hand cramped from writing down pages and pages of new ideas. Here are the most interesting things I learned...

In his latest blog, Amplifi Media CEO Steve Goldstein lays out what he sees as some of the biggest news from Podcast Movement in Philadelphia last week. He says there were all sorts of valuable numbers and statistics flying around the show. Here are a just a few that caught his attention....

Operations Manager “Boomer,” said, “In seeking the next leader for WYRG I had the opportunity to speak with several skilled programmers from around the country, most with career credentials that would certainly be suitable for the role of program director. However, I kept coming back to Sid’s positive attitude and seemingly relentless drive and determination to succeed in this situation..."

Toshamakia Acevedo has been appointed to the role of Music Director for KS 107.5 (KQKS-FM) in Denver, effective July 30. Acevedo will also host the station’s afternoon drive, 3:00 p.m–7:00 p.m. MT. Acevedo was previously an on-air personality for sister station 102 Jamz (WJMH-FM) in Greensboro, NC.