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Content provider Mr. Master has appointed Maria Musaitef as Marketing Director. It's a newly created position at the company. Musaitef joins Mr. Master from Envisage Radio Group, where she helped launch the company as Director, Affiliate Sales and Marketing, and brought in 90 affiliates for Sammy Hagar's Top Rock Countdown in the show's first year.

Q Country morning host, Chris Allinger won’t give up the kids. After doing his final “Walkin’ the Country” for the Food Bank of the Southern Tier’s Backpack Program, he said that was it. Well, that was it for that particular event. But now Allinger is back with “2 Steps To Fight Hunger.”

Nominations close Friday for the Radio Wayne Awards (named after “Radio Wayne” Cornils, 1935-2000, who devoted his life to increasing professionalism in radio). The only way your radio team members can be considered for a Radio Wayne Award is if you nominate them.. MAKE YOUR NOMINATIONS HERE. Your deadline is July 8.

This is a follow-up to our July 5 story where we reported that WCBM's Tom Marr was headed for medical hiatus after suffering a stroke as a result of recent back surgery. Marr has been in Baltimore radio since 1967, and has been with WCBM since 1988. He died Thursday at the age of 73. WCBM Director of Programming & Operations Sean Casey issued this statement...

Thursday on CNN, Reach Media's syndicated host D.L. Hughley had a very moving interview regarding the recent police shootings. He explained to CNN's Chris Cuomo, “I don’t even go to sleep until my children come home, my grown children come home." WATCH HERE.

It was this week in 1996 that a new weekend program debuted for Rock Stations. hardDrive is celebrating its 20th anniversary on the air. The show’s original host and executive producer, Lou Brutus (pictured) and Roxy Myzal are still intact on the production team.

iHeartRadio has teamed up with podcast hosting network Liberated Syndication, also known as Libsyn, which is home to more than 28,000 podcasts, including The Tim Ferriss Show, Welcome to Night Vale, LORE, the Joe Rogan Experience and others.

ESPN Radio 1230 The Fan 2 (WFOM-AM) has signed a multi-year partnership with Kennesaw State Football beginning with the 2016 season. The play-by-play will also stream at atlantasssportsstation.com.

The satellite broadcasters announced Thursday that country superstar Garth Brooks will launch his own SiriusXM channel on September 8. Simply called The Garth Channel, it will be Brooks’ music – along with the artists who influenced him – 24/7, and curated by the man himself.

The hosts from ESPN Radio are ready to rumble, it seems. Beginning July 11, they will be taking over ESPN2’s weekday morning studio debate show First Take. A different duo or trio from ESPN Radio will face off each day and thrash out the day’s top stories. Molly Qerim will be the host as the fireworks go off every morning from 10 til noon. Here’s the schedule for the week...