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The folks at the Research Director are hosting a webinar Thursday called "Radio and Pureplays: Keeping the Ad Dollars That Belong to Us.". The company says Internet pureplays are stealing a portion of radio’s ad dollars and more and more advertising money is being spent on digital.

PD Kevin Sherrets tells Radio Ink Kayte Christensen (pictured) is joining the morning show on Sports 1140 KHTK. Nate Goodyear is promoted from his midday shift and joins the show as well. Both join Carmichael Dave.

As of April 18, Hannah Byrom will be the new morning show co-host with Jeff Miles on Greater Media's WKLB-FM in Boston. Byrom’s morning show experience includes working at KKBF-FM in Portland, Oregon, and serving as a co-host on Westwood One’s Zach Sang and the Gang.

And that includes keeping Ronn Owens in his original timeslot (minus one hour) and not moving him to KSFO. Cumulus says the change in plans was due to "listener outcry."

The National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation has announced the winners of the 2016 Celebration of Service to America Awards. The awards recognize outstanding community service and the winners will be honored at a dinner in Washington, D.C., June 21. Cox Radio Miami won the award for individual campaigns, projects or programs, and CBS Radio in Southfield, MI, won the Service to Children award.

The Telos Alliance - parent company of 25-Seven, makers of the Voltair Watermark Monitor and Processor - has announced the release of Voltair Data Export Licenses. The company says this new feature will help broadcasters get a comprehensive minute-by-minute understanding of exactly which programming is not encoding well in PPM.

Media Services Group tells Radio Ink that High Plains Radio Network in Plainview, Texas, is buying three stations in Altus, Oklahoma -- KEYB-FM, KJOK-FM, and KKRE-FM -- from Altus FM, owned by Paul and Scott Wilmes, for $750,000.

The religion-focused broadcaster picks up Bob Carlson's Retirement Watch newsletter and accompanying website retirementWatch.com. Written by Bob Carlson, Retirement Watch offers independent research and advice about retirement planning. Carlson is also the author of Invest Like a Fox…Not Like a Hedgehog and The New Rules of Retirement.

(by Bob McCurdy) Simon and Garfunkel were on to something when they wrote The Sound of Silence. Maybe we can learn something from them and their #1 hit. A couple of seconds of “silence” strategically placed within a Radio commercial could greatly enhance the effectiveness of the remaining 27 seconds.

Consultant Richard Harker was not impressed with Nielsen's last press barrage touting the new and improved enhanced CBET. Harker has been very critical of PPM, especially since Telos' Voltair hit the market. And, in his latest blog, he continues to apply the pressure on the ratings firm. He called Nielsen’s press release "pure Orwellian doublespeak essentially bragging about improvements to a technology that Nielsen and before that Arbitron claimed was virtually perfect. Then Voltair showed that it wasn’t true." Read the new Harker blog HERE...