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The biweekly NAB Podcast has two new episodes out. The first is "An insider’s Look at Covering Washington" with Steven Portnoy, and the second is "Protecting First Amendment Rights" with RTDNA’s Dan Shelley. Here are the details.

Danielle Outlaw is the new VP/Market Manager for Neuhoff Media's three-station Bloomington, Illinois cluster. Outlaw transitions from her current role as VP of Sales overseeing five Neuhoff markets. She'll continue to serve as Corporate VP for Special Projects. Outlaw replaces Grant Thompson who joined iHeart in August.

The streaming company has announced a live concert, "Up Close," featuring the country star on December 6 at the Altman Building in New York City. Bryan will be celebrating the release of his sixth studio album, What Makes You Country, due out on December 8.

Bonneville has hired Steve DiNardo as D.O.S. for its new San Francisco cluster. DiNardo will oversee sales for KOIT-FM, KMVQ-FM, KBLX-FM, and KUFX-FM. DiNardo was Market Manager for Entercom in San Francisco until October when Susan Larkin took over. Bonneville will LMA the stations as part of Entercom's divestiture plan to help close its merger with CBS.

Eddie Esserman is the new Managing Director at the brokerage firm, taking over for George Reed. Esserman has been a director at MSG for nearly 20 years. Reed said, “I look forward to devoting more time to brokering. Thirteen years as Managing Director is at least 10 more than I ever intended.” MSG also announced that Will Cate is joining the company as Research Director.

Want to get your kids away from “screen staring” for a while? NPR’s podcast Wow in the World just might be the answer — and 40 new episodes are being rolled out starting November 6. The show was launched in May, and has topped the kids and family podcast charts, reaching over five million downloads.

Cumulus Media has announced that it has appointed Chris Hart (known on-air as “Big Chris” Hart) as Program Director for Classic Hip Hop radio station KNEV-FM/95.5 The Vibe in Reno, NV. A 15-year veteran of Reno radio, Hart was previously Program Director and afternoon on-air host for KWFP-FM in Reno, following a decade at KUUB-FM in Reno.

ESPN Syracuse has created a new local sports talk show featuring actor Daniel Baldwin. The Daniel Baldwin Show airs from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Baldwin is the main host, joined in studio by co-host Josh Grosvent who is also the host of The Show mornings on K-ROCK (WKRL-FM and WKLL-FM).

Live events and national digital revenue are not working out the way Townsquare hoped. On the other hand, radio is. The company announced it's conducting a review of its Entertainment division due to another poor revenue quarter, which could result in a reorganization of that division. That would also mean a total focus on growing core revenue, which comes from radio.

It was a four-man show on the Townsquare earnings call, Tuesday. Former CEO Steven Price, now Executive Board Chairman, introduced new Co-CEOs Bill Wilson and Dhruv Prasad. Wilson will focus on running the radio stations while Prasad focuses on other aspects of the business such as M&A, dealing with investors, and HR.