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Superadio Networks makes the announcement that The Michael Baisden Show will return to the Atlanta market this week after being dropped by CMG's WALR-FM late last year. Core Communicators Broadcasting is picking up the show for WTBS-FM, which recently reset its format from Old School to a more contemporary adult urban music mix.

This story sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a James Patterson novel. Sixty-eight-year-old James Kauffman has been arrested and charged with murdering his wife, New Jersey radio host April Kauffman. ABC-TV in Philadelphia is reporting that Kauffman paid a hitman to murder his wife to protect an alleged drug ring he ran with the Pagans outlaw motorcycle gang.

The Joe Pags Show adds KPAM in Portland, OR, as its 100th affiliate. The Compass Media Networks show launched August 2015 and now, in less than 30 months, announces 100 stations, including Flagship WOAI San Antonio, KPRC Houston, and KTLK Minneapolis.

The President has renominated Republican Brendan Carr to server a second term on the FCC, which the FCC Commissioner thanked the President for. "Serving on the Commission is a tremendous honor and privilege, and I am proud of the work we have already accomplished. If reconfirmed, I look forward to many more years of working with my colleagues at the FCC."

77 WABC Radio night talk show host John Batchelor has accepted an invitation from the State of Qatar to broadcast from Doha this week, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Broadcast Music, Inc. has named Randall McMillan to the newly created position of VP Business Affairs, Creative & Licensing. Reporting to Mike Steinberg, Executive VP Creative & Licensing, McMillan will be based in BMI’s New York office.

The dominos continue to fall for Steve Bannon after he turned ugly on President Trump. Tuesday, after the media was reporting for days that Breitbart staff wanted Bannon out, it was announced he was stepping down as Executive Chairman, a position he's held since 2012. SiriusXM followed with this statement...

Mvyradio (Martha’s Vineyard) announces that Jess Phaneuf is returning to the WMVY airwaves at the end of January. Phaneuf will rejoin the mvyradio team, with both on-air and off-air duties. She’ll hold down a weekday afternoon air shift and will take on the title of Music Director.

JJade and Cowboy Curt have joined Broadway as co-hosts on morning show Broadway’s Backyard on 107.9 FM Y108 (WDSY-FM/Pittsburgh). Broadway’s Backyard debuted on Y108 during the fall of 2017 and airs weekday from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET.

When was the last time an FM signal sold for a few thousand dollars? 3,000-watt WLPW-FM (105.5), licensed to Lake Placid, NY (market 148), is being sold for $32,000 by Radio Lake Placid Inc. The buyer is North Country Radio Inc. and the broker for the deal was Jason James of Patrick Communications.