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Al Farb has been appointed Assistant Program Director and afternoon drive talent for New Country 96.3 KSCS-FM in Dallas. Farb is a 10-year radio broadcasting professional and joins Cumulus from Cox Radio in Houston, where he was Executive Producer and on-air talent at KKBQ-FM and KTHT-FM.

Community Broadcasters LLC have signed a multi-year agreement to work with the Children’s Miracle Network for the annual CMN Hospitals Radiothon. The 2018 radiothon, scheduled for September 5-7, will benefit McLeod Children’s Hospital in South Carolina.

Digital managers-turned-senior corporate leaders from top broadcast companies will discuss the shift in corporate executive progression from digital professional to CEO in a panel at the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas on Monday, April 9. The panel is titled "DFXTra: Digital Leaders Take Charge -- President and CEO Pane."

Dick Broadcasting Company has promoted Matt Wells to Promotions Director for WKRR Rock 92 and WKZL 1075 KZL. Wells has been with the company for five years and has served as producer for Jared and Katie in the Morning (1075 KZL) for the past four years.

Knight is the new midday talent and Assistant Program Director for Magic 94-9 (WWRM-FM/Tamapa). For the past 24 years, Knight has worked for iHeart/Clear Channel Communications as on-air talent, MD and Production Director at stations including WMTX and WSSR.

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.