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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.

PodcastOne SportsNet content is teaming up with the Associated Press's worldwide sports coverage to provide reports from national and international sporting events, beginning with Winter Olympics in South Korea. The deal also includes new PodcastOne and AP content, with some premiering as soon as this week.

Tagstation, owner of the NextRadio app, announced on Tuesday that Samsung, the largest Android handset maker in the world, is the latest device to continue its support for NextRadio by unlocking the FM Chip in upcoming smartphone models in the U.S. and Canada.

Canadian Music Week has announced that Beasley Media Group CEO Caroline Beasley will be a featured speaker in a session called "A Radio Executive's View From The Corner Office." The session will feature several radio executives and cover the overall positioning of radio today, its future, and how digital fits into the landscape. 

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.