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College students have been accepted into the Institute from UGA, as well as other schools in the state, including: Piedmont College, Georgia Southern University, Clayton State University, Fort Valley State University, Georgia College and State University, Georgia State University, and Kennesaw State University.

NewsRadio 560 WHYN in Paxton, MA, announced the addition of The Jim Polito Show to its weekday lineup, beginning today. The show will air weekday mornings from 6 – 9:00 a.m.

Mike Greenberg, who co-hosts the Mike & Mike show, was honored by his alma mater. Greenberg was inducted into Northwestern University’s Medill Hall of Achievement.

The Maney, Roy and LauRen Morning Show on Beasley’s Top 40 WNKS in Charlotte hosted a marathon broadcast on May 12. Beginning at 6 a.m., the jocks vowed to stay on the air until they raised $51,000 for Levine Children’s Hospital.

(by Editor-in-Chief Ed Ryan) So many of us can remember getting that Chickenman cassette in the mail and playing it over and over as soon as it arrived. The creation of one of radio's most brilliant minds, turns 50 this year. Dick Orkin was born in Williamsport, PA, in 1933, and by age 16, he was ready to tackle radio.

This goes back to a story we reported on March 25. Cumulus filed a lawsuit against Amanda Rollen and Hoosier AM/FM, which operates five radio stations in Marion and four in Kokomo.

My Home Team Media promotes Jessica Banister to run its Clovis, New Mexico cluster. My Home Team president Susan Lucchesi said, "We are excited to have someone of Jessica’s caliber grow with our company and move up to our management team. Her commitment to excellence, diligent attention to detail, and knowledge/use of digital and social media makes her an extremely valuable addition to our company."

On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced ASCAP agreed to pay $1.75 million and reform some of its policies to settle allegations ASCAP violated a court-ordered consent decree designed to prevent anticompetitive effects arising from its collective licensing of music performance rights.

Program directors have enormous responsibilities these days. They must produce the best content in all of audio, because the competition for ears has never been greater. They have to find and teach and massage new local talent. And they surely must help produce a product the sales department can successfully sell so that fire-breathing GM can be calm, cool, and collected while sending that nice big piece of the cash-flow action back to corporate.