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Not many stations are left that can say they've carried the same format for 5 decades. Beasley's WMMR in Philadelphia will celebrate 50 years Sunday, April 29th. The station will begin celebrating its 50th birthday today. Here's how...

Beasley Media Group has hired Travis Daily as Tampa Operations Manager and PD of WQYK 99.5FM. Daily spent the past 17 years at iHeartMedia, where he most recently served as Senior VP of Programming in Tampa and Sarasota.

Gill Santos passed away last week, on his 80th birthday and 57th wedding anniversary. Santos started working Patriots' games for WBZ in Boston in 1966 as an analyst. He took over play-by-play duties in 1971. Santos called 743 games in 36 seasons.

George Reed, owner of Monticello Media, has announced the appointment of Ralph Salierno to VP/GM of their Charlottesville, VA, stations (WCHV, WYCK, WHTE, WKAV & WZGN).

CBS Sunday Morning will be available to CBS News Radio listeners beginning April 22. Every Sunday, CBS Sunday Morning will be delivered to CBS News Radio affiliates for a 9:00 a.m. ET broadcast, though stations have the flexibility of offering it to their listeners throughout the day.

The National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation has announced the winners of the 2018 Celebration of Service to America Awards, recognizing outstanding community service by local broadcasters. Winners will be honored at the Celebration of Service to America dinner, held Tuesday, June 12 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC.

According to Tri- States Public Radio Riverfront Broadcasting's two southeast Iowa stations KOKX-AM and WCEZ-FM could go off the air soon. Carolyn Becker purchased the stations in 2016. She says the stations will go dark unless new owners are found.

Justin Nesci has been named iHeartMedi's Executive VP of Advanced Audio and Data Revenue. Nesci will be responsible for developing data-driven audio strategies across iHeartMedia’s platforms. He will help steer SmartAudio, iHeart's cloud-based audio planning and buying platform.

Lyndsey Marie returns to Atlanta as on-air host, middays, for Rock 100.5/WNNX-FM. Lyndsey, who moved from Atlanta to Chicago in 2014 to host middays on former Cumulus Classic Rock station WLUP-FM, has hosted Rock 100.5 middays remotely since that time.

Cumulus Media has appointed Nick Draeger to the position of Creative Imaging Director for Chicago Rock radio station 101 WKQX-FM. Draeger joins Cumulus from Entercom-Sacramento.