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Once I heard Jay Abraham’s take on radio, I begged him to come to our Forecast conference at the Harvard Club in New York on November 15. And, I asked him to bring one of his billionaire clients, Shark Tank’s Daymond John.

Digital ad solutions company AdsWizz announced that Mediamond, the largest Media Sales House in Italy, has selected AdsWizz’s products for all direct and programmatic sales across all their Web radios and podcasts.

KFI Los Angeles conservative talker Bill Handel has apologized for calling congresswoman Frederica Wilson a whore on his show two weeks ago. L.A. Weekly reports that Handel made the apology in a prerecorded message. Political commentator Janmyne Cannick, who's been pressuring iHeart about the comment, archived the clip..

KYW in Philadelphia is reporting that Rod Carson, one of the founders of Shadow Traffic, KYW Newsradio, died over the weekend at his home in Lehighton, Carbon County. He was 75. Carson was best known for the traffic reports on CBS Radio's KYW. Carson's Facebook page, which states he died of natural causes, is being flooded with comments.

It happens on March 17, 2018. Coast to Coast AM host George Noory will be among the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame’s 2018 class of inductees. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, the most-listened-to overnight radio program in North America, is broadcast live, Monday-Friday, from 1-5 a.m.

Salem Media Group has hired Ed Martin for afternoons at 1380AM The Answer in St. Louis. The Ed Martin Movement, will be heard afternoons from 3-5 p.m. Martin is the New York Times best-selling author of The Conservative Case for Trump. He's known as an advocate of Donald Trump's policies.

It’s south to Sin City for Shawn Stevens who makes the move after 20 years in Salt Lake City, where he most recently worked as PD/On-Air at (Country) KUBL-FM. Prior to that, Stevens worked at KBEE-FM and KKAT-FM in that market.

On Monday more details were released regarding who will run the Entercom markets once the deal to merge with CBS Radio closes. The new information came from COO Weezie Kramer, who told Entercom employees that all Entercom Market Managers will be elevated to Senior Vice President, to be consistent with CBS Radio titles, and all Entercom Regionals will receive the President title. Here are the specifics on who will run each market and who will cover each region. 

Don Cheto Al Aire will air Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on WLIT Poder 97.5 FM, a Showtime Media station in Chicago, the country’s fifth-largest Hispanic DMA. The Don Cheto Radio Network launched its first affiliate in 2009. The show is now heard in over 30 cities.

Greg Ashlock, previously President of iHeartMedia Markets Group West Division, who also served as the senior business leader representing the company in the west, has been named President of the iHeartMedia Markets Group. Ashlock will now manage the entire iHeartMedia Markets Group, including all 850-plus radio stations in over 150 markets.