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The second annual MIW-Nielsen Music Mentoring Program is now accepting applications. And they want your help finding the 2018 Mentee. If you (or someone you greatly admire) are a female Program Director, Assistant Program Director, and/or Music Director, from any music format, please be sure to apply.

Nielsen has launched a new product that is says allows users to understand cross-media reach, frequency, and duplication on a local scale using advanced audience segments from Scarborough. It's called Local Nielsen Media Impact and it involves both radio and TV.

iHeartRadio announced on Tuesday that it now has 120 million registered users after adding about 10 million listeners over the last few months. iHeart credits the recent growth to several new initiatives, including new music streaming features with AI technology, Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids Edition, and Southwest Airlines in-flight entertainment portal.

Jetsetting Family Travel Podcast is a show exploring what it’s like to get up and go, to upset the balance of life, and to spend time with the people who care most. Rod and Jessica Sanchez dropped out of the grind and decided to really live their lives.

Danny Bortnick has been named iHeartMedia’s SVP of Sales for Washington, DC. He will report to Aaron Hyland, Region Senior Vice President of Sales for iHeartMedia Washington, DC, and Market President for Baltimore. Bortnick joins the DC Market from Entercom.

Hit podcast The Hilarious World of Depression is returning for a third season, featuring new celebrity interviews and audience discussion about mental illness. Hosted by John Moe, the series brings conversation about clinical depression out of the shadows while keeping things frank and funny.

SRN's Tom Tradup informed us that long-time New York broadcaster Ralph Howard died Tuesday. Howard worked for WMCA-AM and WINS-AM in New York. From 1982 to 1985, Tradup was Executive Producer of the Ralph & Ryan morning show on WMCA — then owned by Ellen & Peter Straus of Straus Communications. Ralph was paired with NBC-TV newsman Bill Ryan.

KYW Newsradio 1060 (KYW-AM/Philadelphia) Community Affairs Reporter Cherri Gregg  has been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists with a Salute to Excellence Award at the 2018 NABJ Salute to Excellence Gala in Detroit.

The Wolfman Jack Radio Show is doing an encore on KWML-AM 570/104.5 FM Las Cruces, WOCQ-HD2 (105.1 and 104.3 FM) Salisbury, and WQTL-FM/ 106.1 FM Tallahassee. The Adams Radio Group stations will be the exclusive affiliate in these markets to air the original show. 

Christian was talking about how Internet advertising has figured out how to follow users around the Web after that person shows interest in a certain product. From website to website the ads follow you if you showed any interest in purchasing that product. Christian said Brooks Brother is stalking him. And, here's how he brought it all back to radio.