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Jim Ortega steps in as Vice President of Affiliate Sales of Local Radio Networks. Ortega joins Donna Halverson, Vice President of Affiliate Sales, who had been handling national sales single-handedly. Ortega has held sales management positions at Dial Global and Jones Media, and worked in sales at WGN, Chicago.

In the Todd Clem (Bubba The Love Sponge) ratings tampering case, which is scheduled to begin in Tampa in less than two weeks, an amended witness list has been submitted to the court by Clem.

Where will you be when the movement takes a new turn? Will you participate and be part of the conversation — or will you sit outside the tent and read about it the next day? Are you a doer or a procrastinator?

(By Spike Santee) Zig Ziglar likes to describe selling as a transfer of emotions. If we as professional sales people can get our prospects as excited about our product as we are, then we'll able to make a sale.

iHeartMedia makes the flip to ALT 96.1 in Spokane moving Kix Country up the dial to 99.3, which is a translator, and was UP99.3 airing a Christian format. The station will feature The Woody Show weekday mornings and broadcast commercial-free music from 10 a.m.–noon.

The insurance provider aired 44,125 commercials on radio stations across the country last week according to Media Monitors, making it radio's number one advertiser for yet another week. Check out the top five for the week...

To help AMs and FMs on their path to success, Radio Ink presents the latest in a series of short podcasts focused on Hispanic radio in advance of the 2018 Hispanic Radio Conference, March 13-14 in Miami. In our second installment, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam Jacobson chats with Francisco Montero, co-Managing Partner of Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, on the importance of AM and FM radio during an emergency.

Thanks to Joanna Martens from The Kim Komando Show for sharing this advertiser success story with us from Austin, Texas, where the syndicated tech guru helped Gregg Burger and his business Precision Camera bring many new customers through the door and ring the cash register. (Our weekly Advertiser Success Stories are sponsored by Sun & Fun Media)

The fourth annual WDAS Women of Excellence Luncheon will take place on Saturday, March 31, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Sheraton Downtown Philadelphia Hotel. Among those to be honored is broadcaster Rev. Louise Bishop. 105.3 WDAS FM’s on-air personalities Patty Jackson, Frankie Darcell, Mimi Brown, and Loraine Ballard Morrill will host the event.

Alpha Media, Peoria has announced that Tino Cochino will air weeknights, 6-10 p.m. on Throwback station G 102.3 (WNGY/Peoria).