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After an extensive search for a co-host for the nationally syndicated Michael Baisden Show, award-winning broadcast journalist and radio personality Dominique DiPrima has been tapped for the position.

On Monday iHeartMedia announced a slew of new integrations for iHeartRadio, just in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Listeners will now have the ability to access iHeartRadio through a bot for Facebook Messenger; Samsung’s new voice service, Bixby; Jibo, the first social robot for the home; Garmin’s new GPS running watch, and Roku.

William Harrington, the United States Trustee for Region 2 has filed an objection to Cumulus' Disclosure Statement For Joint Plan of Reorganization. The trustee listed five reasons why the objection is being filed and has asked the court to deny the Reoganization Disclosure statement.

Bob Villones is now the permanent Market Manager for the El Dorado Broadcasters’ Yuma cluster (KTTI-FM and AM 560 KBLU). Villones had served as DOS of the Yuma Cluster from 2012-2014. He rejoined El Dorado in Yuma as Sales Manager in early 2017, and then took on the role of acting General Manager in May 2017 when Ira Rosenblat left.

That's according to Cumulus/Westwood One Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard who writes about the topic in his latest blog. Bouvard quotes a recent study of 2,617 consumers conducted by Vision Critcal/MARU. The consumers were asked if they hear the ads that run on Pandora, Spotify, and radio?

Salem Media Group has hired Lorenzo Caldara to run its Philadelphia cluster of radio stations (WFIL-AM and WNTP-AM). Prior to joining Salem, Lorenzo spent 25 years at News-Talker WKXW-FM in New Jersey. Throughout his career, Caldara held positions as an AE, GSM, DOS, GM, and VP/Corporate Director of Sales.

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.