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The San Francisco public radio station has been "bombed back to 20 years ago, technology-wise," according to senior editor Quenna Kim. According to The San Francisco Chronicle the attack took place in late June and the station is still trying to fix the problem.

Spotify is being sued by two publishers out of Nashville. According to Variety, Rob Gaudino and Bluewater Music allege that Spotify did not have a license to stream thousands of songs from their catalogs. They are asking for $150,000 per infringement.

Mike Orth has joined Adams Radio in the newly created position of VP Sales of Adams Digital Media. Orth spent the past seven years with the Minneapolis Star Tribune Media Company, where he managed local and national retail accounts and assisted in the implementation and growth of their digital services.

CBS CEO Les Moonves will make an appearance on The Dan Sileo Show this Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. Sileo hosts a sports talk show on The Mighty 1090 in San Diego which is owned by Broadcast Company of the Americas. Sileo plans to ask Moonves about selling off the CBS Radio stations. Listen to the interview Friday morning HERE.

Scholarship winners for this year’s Rising Through the Ranks Seminar, presented by the RAB, BMI, and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio group have been selected. Twenty-five broadcasters will attend this year’s seminar August 16-17 at the BMI Nashville office thanks to the scholarships.

The 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival lineup of artists was announced on Tuesday. This year, the two-day event will feature performances by Coldplay, DJ Khaled, Chris Stapleton, Kings of Leon, Big Sean, P!NK, Miley Cyrus and others. Ryan Seacrest will again be the host. The event will take place September 22 and 23 in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.

Since March, iHeartCommunications has been trying to convince lenders and bondholders to restructure about $15 billion of the company's debt. What iHeart was offering the lenders has not convinced them to buy into the plan and iHeart has continued to extend the deadline of their offer. There has been a counteroffer made by one of the lenders which that lender believes may bring other lenders in.

Cumulus Lafayette has promoted Robin Chapman from Senior AE to GSM for its four stations in that market. Chapman joined Cumulus Lafayette in 2009 and has been a previous Radio Ink Radio Wayne Street Fighter Award Finalist. The Cumulus Lafayette cluster includes KNEK-AM/FM, KRRQ-FM, KSMB-FM and NASH FM 99.1/KXKC-FM.

Chio in the Morning, on Real 106.1 "Philly’s Real No. 1 for Throwbacks,” will have Shila Nathan as its new co-host beginning today. Nathan has worked with Chio previously as a co-host, and reunites with him in Philadelphia to broadcast a variety of hip hop, R&B, and rhythmic music from the ‘90s and early 2000s.

Financial forecasters and radio executives will discuss radio’s regulatory and economic future in a session titled “Pillsbury’s Broadcast Finance 2017: Is Radio Ready for a New Deal?,” Wednesday, September 6, from 8:00-9:30 a.m. at the Radio Show in Austin.