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Nia Marciante has been named Promotions Director for iHeartMedia Washington, DC’s WASH-FM and WMZQ-FM. Marciante will report to Kim Sauer, Marketing Director for iHeartMedia’s Washington, DC, region.

On Wednesday morning, The Bert Show officially introduced the newest member of their nationally syndicated morning radio show, Maurice “Moe” Mitchell. Moe joins host Bert Weiss and co-hosts Kristin Klingshirn and Davi Crimmins.

Townsquare Media announced Wednesday that “Uncle Joe” Benson will host Ultimate Classic Rock, the company’s popular nighttime syndicated radio show, beginning May 7.

University of California, Berkeley, student Veronica Irwin is the winner of the third annual BMI Founders Award for Radio Broadcasting scholarship competition.

Keith Hastings is the program director for Cox Media Group's KISS and KTKX in San Antonio. He is also the Rock format leader for the company. With 40 years now in the business, Hastings started in radio at age 16 and is now in his 32nd year of programming radio stations. He's also one of Radio Ink's Best Programmers of 2018.

On Wednesday, the company reported that revenue from its radio division was down less than 1% compared to Q1 2017. Urban One saw revenue growth in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Richmond offset by declines in Atlanta, Raleigh, and St. Louis. CEO Alfred Liggins said there are two big markets that are pretty much dragging the revenue down.

While McDonald's remains one of radio's biggest advertisers, Urban One has really taken a revenue hit from the restaurant chain.

That's the question Urban One CEO Alfred Liggins left everyone pondering yesterday. At the end of 2017, when Tom Joyner signed his last 2-year deal with Reach Media, he announced he'd be retiring at the end of 2019. Liggins isn't so sure about that.

It's been an up and down year so far for radio's largest advertising category. Auto sales were slow in February, up in March, and now weal in April. GM was off by about 8%, Ford posted a 4.7% decline in sales for the month, Nissan dropped a whopping 28% in April and Toyota reported it was down 4.7%.

Isaac Mizrahi, co-president and COO of Miami-based multicultural advertising agency Alma, discusses the important role both Spanish-language radio and English-language radio targeted to Hispanics has for the marketers and advertisers he works with on a daily basis in the latest Hispanic Radio Podcast from Radio Ink.