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Jim Ross is bringing his Podcast to the Westwood One Podcast Network. The weekly Podcast called 'The Voice of Wrestling' will debut in early April with a new name: The Jim Ross Report. Westwood One Podcast Network will provide ad sales representation and promotion for the show.

(By Jeff McHugh) For some radio shows and podcasts, the listener’s real-life phone topic stories are the best parts of the show. If you plan and execute phone topics well, you can maximize time-spent-listening from one segment to the next. Here are the techniques that we see making a difference in performance.

There’s a new midday personality at Country 98.9 (KNUC/Seattle), Seth Hughes. Hughes most recently spent time in the afternoon and morning drive slots at the former 94.1 KMPS.

Greensboro, NC, station 93.1 The Wolf (WPAW-FM) has promoted Clay Walker to Program Director. Walker was previously the Digital Integration Director and Assistant Program Director for the station.

Envision Networks has added another Affiliate Relations Manager, Max Lowther. Lowther graduated from Bowling Green State University where he studied Communications and Marketing and worked extensively with the campus radio station.

Chepe and Patricia of local Spanish language station El Zol 107.9 were honored with the “Hispanic Radio Persons of the Year” award for their leadership in raising more than $570,000 for Children’s National Health System during the station’s 2017 radiothon.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioners Michael O'Rielly, Brendan Carr and Jessica Rosenworcel will participate in four separate sessions at NAB Show, April 7-12 in Las Vegas.

iHeartMedia, which on March 15 announced it had reached an agreement with lenders to restructure its balance sheet, has about 17,000 employees working at 850 radio stations. With so many news outlets available today, and so may ways to receive that news instantly, it can be a challenge to keep all those people motivated if they are being fed misinformation. That's where CEO Bob Pittman and CFO Richard Bressler come in.

Robbins will have been in the industry for 40 years this May — and that in itself is a miracle. Two weeks after signing a syndication deal, Robbins suffered a heart attack. It was the first of three, necessitating five bypass surgeries.

Hannah Rae is the new producer and co-host of The Jim Brickman Show. A millennial raised on technology, she brings a youthful viewpoint to the on-air team of award-winning songwriter and best-selling solo pianist Brickman.