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The NAB Education Foundation is accepting applications for two leadership development programs: Broadcast Leadership Training (BLT) and the Management Development Seminar (MDS). Fellowships are available.

The new radio edition of the popular podcast The Daily will be available to public radio listeners across the country beginning April 2. The New York Times and American Public Media will be joining forces in this collaboration.

That's according to a report from Standard Media Index released on Monday. Across all media, SMI says February was a great month for national which rose 8% (excluding the Olympics) with digital seeing the biggest gain at 18%. National TV grew 12% and Out-of-Home grew 9%. Print continued its decline, off a whopping 26% for the month.

The New York Post says Univision's board is considering several internal candidates once Falco (pictured) retires at the end of the year. Those candidates include CFO Peter Lori and Chief Revenue Officer Tonia O’Connor. The Post reports former Univision networks President Cesar Conde is also being considered. Conde is now an executive at Telemundo

XPRS-AM in San Diego has a new morning show after the recent jump to Entercom by previous host Dan Sileo. Sports station The Mighty 1090 has hired Ben Higgins and Steve Woods for morning drive as of today.

John Lewis (left) returns to Cumulus as Market Manager in Huntsville, replacing the retiring Ray Nelson. And former Greater Media Market Manager Stephen Chessare joins Cumulus taking over their Bridgeport, CT, cluster.

The ratings firm announced it's launching a new set of reports for diary market subscribers called Diary Monthly Insights. The new reports, available to subscribers of PD Advantage and Arbitrends, will provide more details about diary listening behavior and trends.

John O’Connell is the new PD for Kiss Country 99.9 (WKIS-FM) in Miami. O'Connell will continue to program Entercom's Alternative station in Miami (104.3 The Shark). O'Connell said he is beyond excited to come back to the Country format and join the team at one of the most legendary Country radio stations in America.

According to Media Monitors, the national retailer aired 32,981 commercials on radio stations across the country last week. That was good for second place (up from 11th) and only behind GEICO which was first again (36,868). Who else made the top five?

(By Gabriel Barnes) Are Facebook’s recent updates the end for radio on social media? The short answer is no! However, the changes do require everyone to rethink their Facebook strategies — lest they suffer the repercussions.