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Beasley’s 100.1 WJRZ recent “Share the Joy” live radio broadcast, saw community members help fill a 50-foot tractor-trailer with donations of food, clothing, and new, unwrapped toys

Mottla’s career includes the VP/programming position at Envisage Radio Group in Escondido, CA as well as programming rock stations including WHEB/WGIR Manchester, NH, WDRE Long Island, NY, WIYY Baltimore, MD, KTYD Santa Barbara, CA, and WFNX Boston, MA.

Kent Dunn will return to August, GA to oversee the company’s cluster of eight radio stations in the market, including WKXC-FM 99.5, WHHD-FM 98.3, WDRR-FM 93.9, WGUS-FM 102.7, WCHZ-FM 93.1/95.5, WGAC-FM 95.1, WGAC-AM 580, and WRDW-AM 163.

iHeartMedia has promoted John Ivey to the newly created position of President of CHR Programming Strategy. Ivey will oversee iHeartMedia’s CHR and RCHR formats and work to improve the company’s Top 40 brands in its over 150 markets. Ivey will retain his role as PD of KIIS FM in LA.

CEO Mary Berner expects the company to come out a meaner, leaner company by May and it's business as usual at the station level. Market Managers we spoke to Thursday said it is business as usual and they feel pretty good about things because of the transparency in the corporate office. So what's next?

The Radio Licensing Music Committee was hoping to battle it out with Irving Azoff's Public Rights Organization in a Philadelphia court. A judge has tripped up that plan and RLMC plans to appeal.

The total political advertising pie in 2018 will be $8.5 billion, according to a new report from Borrell and Associates. That's an increase of 2.5% over 2014 and over $3 billion more than the estimate for 2017. So the big question is, how does Borrell predict radio will do next year? Let's find out.

Much like Cumulus, iHeartMedia has been trying to restructure its massive debt. And much like Cumulus, it hasn't been easy. This month there was a little back and forth between iHeartMedia and some of its lenders, but the two sides still seem very far apart.

(By Reed Bunzel) Back when I worked for Radio Ink, I was given the chance to interview a number of personalities of the day who agreed to be featured in living color on the Radio Ink cover. I won’t (and can’t) mention them all, but a few stand out for reasons I will never forget.

(By Deborah Parenti) No other medium shares, cares, lifts spirits, communicates with inflection and not just characters, provides a vital community link, and serves its constituents, from listeners to advertisers, quite like radio