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WSHE-FM, “The New SHE 100.3,” announced Monday that Jenny Milkowski, aka Jenny Milk, formerly of Fox TV Chicago, will team with Jay Styles to host the new afternoon show 2-7 p.m. beginning March 29.

Cats At Night with John Catsimatidis makes its debut on WNYM 970AM, New York City, at 5 p.m. this Wednesday, March 7. This is the second radio program hosted by Catsimatidis, whose successful Sunday morning interview show, The Cats Roundtable, airs on seven radio stations.

Philadelphia Hip Hop/R&B station Power 99 announced Monday that Roxy Romeo will join the Rise & Grind Morning Show on March 12, co-hosting with Mikey Dredd and Mutha Knows. The show broadcasts weekdays 6–10 a.m. Romeo joins Power 99 from REAL 103.9 in Las Vegas.

Longtime Louisville Public Media host Susan Sweeney Crum will retire from 89.3 WFPL later this year. Crum, who began as the local host of All Things Considered in 2006, will host her last broadcast on April 16. Crum began her news career at WHAS Radio.

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...