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Earlier this week Bryan Hollenbaugh and his wife purchased Classic Hits WMJZ-FM in Gaylord, Michigan for $750,000. The previous owners took a $25,000 deposit from the husband and wife team because they know the Hollenbaugh's were serious local broadcasters and will take good care of their signal, and the community. Here's Bryan's story...

The 80 year old sportscaster, who was fired by Imus back in December, says in the suit that Imus routinely cracked "inappropriate" jokes about his age, such as "time to put Wolf out to pasture" and "shoot him with an elephant dart gun." Now Wolf has filed a lawsuit against his former friend.

iHeartMedia has named Lindsay Lazar GSM at "BIG 95.5" (Country/WEBG) and "93.9 LITE FM" (80s and 90s/WLIT) in Chicago. The 20-year vet moves to iHeart from the Entercom/CBS Chicago cluster where she was Sales Manager. She's also held sales and account management positions at Total Traffic and Weather Network, and Premiere Networks.

Cox Media Group Tampa has promoted Bryan Kelly to D.O.S. Bryan spent the past two years as GSM at CMG Tampa before being promoted. Kelly has also worked in sales management in Sarasota and West Palm. The D.O.S. vacancy was created when Jason Meder was promoted to GM in Orlando in December. CMG has six stations in the Tampa market.

This isn't something we see often. One company with a cluster, selling one of their very successful stations to a competitor, who also has a cluster in the same market. Ed Levine's Galaxy Communications is selling WOUR to Townsquare in Utica, New York, for $3.9 million.

Cox Media Group Tulsa Market Vice President Cathy Gunther announced on Thursday that Nate Reed has been named Operations Manager for that market. Reed moves into the job from his position as Director of Branding and Programming at CMG Tulsa’s Hot AC KRAV/Mix 96.5.

On Thursday, Univision reported total radio revenue of $79 million for the fourth quarter of 2017. That's an increase of 8.5% over 2016. However, advertising revenue for the radio segment decreased 5.5% to $63.4 million from $67.1 in Q4.

Ryan Maguire is the new PD for Bonneville's powerhouse News/Talker KIRO Radio in Seattle. Maguire has spent many years in the sports format and makes the move to Seattle from Entercom's WQAM in Miami where he's been PD since 2015. KIRO has been without a PD since Pete Gammell left the station in December.

In a new partnership announced this week, AXS–TV and KMG Networks, a division of Krantz Media Group, will bring The Big Interview with Dan Rather to  stations throughout the U.S. Ad sales will be handled by Westwood One.

Starting soon, Alisa Chang will host All Things Considered along with Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro; and Noel King will join David Greene, Steve Inskeep, and Rachel Martin as the fourth host of Morning Edition and the Up First podcast. King and Chang will continue their enterprise reporting on Planet Money.