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WJBC-AM 1230 and 93.7 NASH Icon will continue as the flagship stations of Illinois State Athletics for another 5 years. The stations will provide broadcasts of all Redbird football and men’s basketball games in the greater Bloomington-Normal area. In addition, fans will hear all ISU women’s basketball broadcasts, and football and basketball coaches’ shows on WJBC-AM 1230.

The FCC chairman has appointed Tina Pelkey as his Press Secretary. She will report to the director of the FCC’s Office of Media Relations. Pelkey most recently served as Senior Vice President at Black Rock Group. She previously worked in Brussels, Belgium, for Weber Shandwick, a global public relations firm. Prior to that, she worked at DCI Group and served as National Press Secretary for Senator John Cornyn of Texas.

Right now, Chris Oliviero is the EVP of Programming for CBS Radio. After the closing, he will retain that same title with Entercom. Same goes for Pat Paxton who is now President of Programming at Entercom. He keeps his title and both men will report directly to David Field and serve on Entercom's senior management committee. Paxton will oversee the music brands and Oliviero will oversee the News/Talk/Sports brands.

That question was not addressed in Field's internal memo Monday. For example, in Boston, there are two strong managers running two excellent clusters. Phil Zachary is running Boston for Entercom, while Mark Hannon runs the market for CBS. In San Francisco Steve DiNardo is the Market Manager for Entercom while Doug Harvill is the Market Manager for CBS Radio.

In the internal memo to his team, Entercom CEO David Field provided an update on how this massive merger is progressing. He expressed his appreciation to everyone for their patience. "We all want to see the deal close as quickly as possible, but these large mergers just take time. I am pleased to report that we are right on schedule and hard at work, making great progress in every area required to complete our merger successfully."

Podtrac measures podcast audiences across all traffic sources, and the numbers in June show ESPN debuting at #5 with a unique audience of 3.5 million. NPR took the top spot with an audience of over 12 million, with WNYC Studio second with an audience of 6.2 million. Here's a look at the top 10 podcasts from the month of June, according to Podtrac...

Cumulus appoints John Kaufman Senior VP for Revenue Strategy and Operations. It's a new position created for Kaufman. The company says he will lead the optimization of revenue at Cumulus with a focus on pricing and inventory management for both Westwood and the Cumulus radio stations. Kaufman has worked for iHeart, Starwood Hotels, Priceline, and American Airlines. He'll report directly to CEO Mary Berner.

As of July 31, Mark Turcotte will be the new General Sales Manager for CMG Atlanta. For the past seven years, Turcotte has been GSM for Midwest Communications in Nashville. He's worked in Atlanta before as the National Sales Manager and Local Sales Manager at CBS' WZGC-FM. He also had a run as the Atlanta-based NSM for CMG Radio's then-Birmingham stations.

iHeartMedia San Diego’s Joe Haze has added a new role to his duties with the company. Haze has been named PD for STAR 94.1. Haze currently serves as PD for Channel 93.3 and afternoon drive host for STAR 94.1. In his newly expanded role, he will serve as PD for both Channel 93.3 and STAR 94.1, and continue as afternoon drive host on STAR 94.1.

The Steve Harvey Morning Show recently clocked up its 100th affiliate. Now Harvey has decided to take the entire cast of his radio show to appear on his daytime TV program The Steve Harvey Show today. The crew includes Shirley Strawberry, Nephew Tommy, Junior, Carla Ferrell, Mississippi Monica, and the newest edition to the show, J. Anthony Brown.