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GSM Kevin Anderson is promoted to GM for Salem's Nashville cluster. His responsibilities will include oversight for the Nashville Fish stations, the Salem Music Networks, and Singing News Magazine and CCMmagazine.com. Anderson has been with Salem since 1995 with most of those years in management positions.

The Dave Ramsey Show is kicking off 2018 with the announcement that it has just added its 600th affiliate after clearing KSFO-AM in San Francisco. The station will air the program from 6p.m. to 9p.m. PD Mike Anthony said, “Dave’s daily contribution to improving listeners’ financial lives is a key reason he is now part of the very powerful 560 KSFO lineup.”

2018 marks George Noory’s 15-year anniversary as host of Coast to Coast AM, the most-listened-to overnight radio program in North America. Noory became the full-time host of the popular radio program, which reaches nearly three million weekly listeners on more than 600 radio stations, in January 2003.

Salem announced Monday that they have appointed Jamie Cohen to the position of VP Local Digital, responsible for driving local digital revenue growth. Cohen joins Salem from USAToday Network, where he oversaw digital sales and development efforts in a number of regions.

Multi-platinum singer/songwriter and CRS 2018 Artist Humanitarian of the Year, Dierks Bentley, has been announced as Monday’s featured speaker (Feb. 5 from 4–5:00 p.m.) for CRS 2018, Feb. 5-7 in Nashville. The conversation, titled “Climbing The Mountain,” will spotlight Bentley’s rise to superstardom.

They are getting together to highlight the success a local advertiser has been having using radio. Over 40 stations in Chicago will simultaneously air a 60-second interview with Roy Spencer, President and owner of Perma-Seal Basement Systems discussing how radio is a primary advertising avenue for reaching customers.

Cumulus CEO Mary Berner will be part of a keynote conversation at the Country Radio Seminar next month in Nashville. Emmis Communications’ New York Market Manager Charlie Morgan will conduct the interview which is called “Radio Today with Cumulus Media’s CEO Mary Berner.” The interview will be Tuesday, February 6 from 3:30 to 4:20 at The Omni Hotel in Nashville.

Salem was a busy company, Monday. Not only did it have several new management announcements, the company also changed the name of its National Promotions Department to Salem Events & Marketing.

The National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation will host the NAB Show Career Fair at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11.

A new report from Moffett Nathanson Research states that in 2018 radio revenue will be flat, compared to being down 1% in 2017. Overall, according to the report, total U.S. advertising revenue will increase 6.7% with the biggest bulk of those gains coming from digital (up 17%).