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Cumulus Media announced on Tuesday that former Detroit Lions offensive tackle Lomas Brown has joined the Lions’ game-day broadcast team on WJR as color analyst. Brown replaces Jim Brandstatter who held the second spot on the football broadcasts for 31 years.

David Cole has been promoted to Programming Assistant of Hot-AC WALK 97.5. Cole currently hosts nights on WALK and also serves as Continuity Director for the CMLI cluster. He has been with the Connoisseur Media for five years, beginning his career as an intern.

Sun Broadcast Group has announced Michelle Grubshtein has joined the company as National Account Manager. Grubshtein has over eight years of experience in the industry, working with Orion Worldwide as a Broadcast Negotiator, and most recently an Account Manager at Shareablee.

Six years ago, Kansas resident Mary Ann Sause was listening to Westwood One’s syndicated host Michael Savage when police showed up to field a complaint that her radio was too loud. She eventually opened the door and began to pray when, she says, police told her she might be taken to jail.

Envision Networks is getting the holiday spirit early and offering programming options to stations that want to beat the holiday rush and relax during the winter blitz. Here are some of the options available...

The Home Depot was radio's biggest advertiser for the 15th week in a row, according to Media Monitors, airing 56,559 commercials on radio stations across the country. GEICO (40,520) and Lowes (35,789) held their 2nd and 3rd positions respectively. Pepsi was 4th with 29,493, followed by AutoZone, up from 22nd, rounding out the top five with 28,088 spots.

The Washington Post’s Research, Experimentation and Development team has developed a technology called Rhapsocord, which inserts ads automatically into podcasts. According to the website Ad Exchanger, Rhapsocord automatically identifies pre-roll, midroll and post-roll spots, inserts ads and updates the files.

The New York Post is reporting that the five private equity owners of Univision are bracing for a 2019 revenue decline of 4 percent for the Spanish language broadcaster. The paper also says the five PE firms - Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, TPG Capital, THL Partners and Haim Saban — may also be looking to generate cash by selling assets.

The RAB has hired Georgia Beasley (pictured) as its new Professional Development Manager. In addition, Kim Johnson was promoted to the Director of Sales position of the Professional Development team.

A few days after Bubba The Love Sponge settled his ratings tampering case with Nielsen, the syndicated morning host lost another affiliate. Bubba had been airing on 96 K-ROCK (WXRK) in Fort Myers for 10 years. He's off the station as of this week. K-ROCK is now playing music in the morning and will announce a new show next week.