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Hubbard Radio has announced that on July 9th, Mason and Remy will take over afternoons on New Country 92.3 (WIL-FM) in St. Louis. The duo were a longtime fixture in morning and afternoon drive in St. Louis before moving to Chicago.

Kevin Malone has joined Community Broadcasters as their Fort Walton Beach (Florida) Market Manager. Malone comes to Community Broadcasters from Georgia, where he worked with Cumulus Media

iHeartMedia has promoted Kavi Halemane to Executive VP/GM of Digital Programming for iHeartRadio. Halemane will be responsible for overseeing iHeart’s Original Digital Music Station Programming, On-Demand Subscription Playlist, and Free Playlist Radio curation and Podcast Programming.

The radio edition of The New York Times’ popular podcast The Daily continues to expand its audience as nine major public radio stations have added, or soon will add, the program to their lineup. The show now airs on 25 stations across the country.

Kevin Weatherly will take over programming duties at Entercom's 97.1 AMP Radio (KAMP-FM). Weatherly will continue in his role as Program Director for KROQ (KROQ-FM) and 93.1 JACK FM (KCBS-FM). Entercom also announced that Chris Ebbott is the new Operations Manager for Radio.com in Los Angeles. Ebbott programs K-EARTH 101 (KRTH-FM) in L.A.

Pandora is teaming up with Snap as the music streaming launch partner for Snap Kit, Snap’s new platform for developers. Pandora listeners will be able to send their favorite songs to friends and family through song cards that display album art on top of an animated background.

It's been quite a week of back-and-forth about the relationship radio has with advertising agencies. On Thursday, we posted a list of questions several advertising agency executives have for radio stations. Today, we have answers from a radio representative. Plenty of answers. And perhaps a little anger and sarcasm thrown in.

Dentsu Aegis Network has upgraded its ad-spending forecast for 2018 to 3.9% -- up from 3.6% in its January projection. Total ad spend around the world is expected to come in at $615 Billion. Dentsu predicts radio will be up 2%. In January the radio projection was 1.3%. The 2019 radio projection is plus 1.2%.

Our week-long series on the love-hate relationship between radio and advertising agencies has stirred up quite a discussion. We're hopeful it's been fair and balanced and that each side is learning about the other. On Thursday, we reached out to Ashley Chase from Independent Brands, an agency in Oklahoma. Ashley's been following the discussion and agreed to an interview.

The weekly one-hour golf talk show on WFAN-FM/New York will be hosted by golf expert Ann Liguori and air Sunday mornings from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. ET, June 17 through September 2. The inaugural show will be broadcast live from the 2018 U.S. Open in Shinnecock Hills, NY.