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Chris Soechtig has been named Market President for iHeartMedia's Tampa Bay market. Soechtig replaces Sam Nein and will report to Linda Byrd, President of iHeartMedia’s North Florida Region.

Rosenberg was a member of the inaugural WGN Radio Walk of Fame class in 2014. For 40 years (1973-2012) he was the host of WGN Radio’s Extension 720, "a daily two-hour festival of intelligent talk" on WGN-Radio in Chicago. Rosenberg died of pneumonia and its complications after entering the hospital on New Year’s Day. He would have been 93 on April 15.

Radio veteran John Summers is joining WHCU-AM/FM/Ithaca as their Brand Manager and News Director. He starts January 22. Summers was most recently the Regional Program Director and News Director for the Northwest News Radio Network and the Washington Ag Network.

Responding to a question about generating other revenue streams, at the 2018 Citi Global TMT West Conference, Wednesday, SiriusXM CFO David Frear said part of the rational behind taking a 16% stake in Pandora was to tap into radio's free ad market. Frear said your revenue is defenitely on their radar screen.

As of December 31, 2017, 32.7 million people subscribe to SiriusXM. Net subscriber additions in 2017 were 1.39 million. The company also announced it has 27.5 million self-paying subscribers, which keeps the cost-per-customer down.

That's what the results of a new survey from NPR and Edison Research confirm, as devices like Amazon's Echo and Google's Home continue to grow in popularity. According to data from The Smart Audio Report, one-in-six Americans now own a smart speaker (16%), up 128% since January 2017.

WJTN-AM is located in Chautauqua County and has been serving the local upstate New York community since 1924. Now it will also be heard on the FM dial at 101.3 after Media One Group picked up a new FM translator.

Addressing a serious issue that has been prominent in the news for some time now, CRS has announced the addition of a harassment workshop titled “A Conversation About Harassment.” Led by New York attorney Shelley Greenwald (pictured), the workshop will be held February 7 (11:00-11:50 a.m. and again 2:00-2:50 p.m). 

People in need in New Jersey and New York had a brighter holiday season thanks to the “Radio 103.9 Brings the Holidays to You” community outreach program in December. Radio 103.9 staff stopped at five locations around New York and New Jersey, delivering gifts and spreading holiday cheer

The world's largest search company is not going to let the world's largest retailer win the voice-enabled home-assistant war without a big fight. Google has taken over Las Vegas, promoting it's product "Home" in an effort to gain ground on Amazon's Alexa. And radio should take notice.