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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.

Tech It Out joins Radio America’s weekly schedule, and is hosted by technology columnist, author, and TV personality, Marc Saltzman. The thrust of the show is to put overwhelmed listeners at ease when it comes to technology, and break down all the “geek speak” with lots of news, reviews, and how-to’s.

If New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continues to get the national publicity he's getting for WFAN auditioning for Mike Francesa's time slot, WFAN VP of Programming Mark Chernoff may have an interesting decision to make. A heated exchange Christie had with a regular caller Monday went viral and received a lot of national publicity. The only problem...it had nothing to do with sports.

The NAB announced the finalists for the 2017 NAB Marconi Radio Awards, honoring radio stations and on-air personalities for excellence in broadcasting. The five stations up for Legendary Station of the Year are CBS Radio's WCBS-AM in New York and KNX-AM in Los Angeles, Emmis' WBLS-FM and WQHT-FM in New York, and iHeartMedia's KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. Here are all the finalists from every category.

Patterson recently agreed to a deal with Blarney Stone Broadcasting to call Grayling Vikings games. He succeeds the award-winning team of Tom McCord and Rich Calkins, both of whom have retired.

Red Hills Broadcasting is selling its cluster in Tallahassee to Adams Radio. The stations are WHTF-FM licensed to Havana Florida, WWOF-FM and WQTL-FM in Tallahassee, and WANK–FM licensed to Lafayette, Florida. This is the fifth market for Adams, which owns and operates clusters in Las Cruces, NM, Fort Wayne, IN, suburban Chicago (Northwest Indiana), and Salisbury-Ocean City, MD.

Broker Frank Boyle tells us that the $648,000 deal for WRYM-AM from Eight Forty Broadcasting to Trignition Media and Parthenon Holdings has closed. It took 15 months to get this one finalized. The station is in New Britain, Connecticut, and operates at 840 on the dial with 1000 watts during the day and 130 watts at night. The format is Tropical and Ethnic. Dick Kozacko was the broker for the buyer, Boyle for the seller.

It’s a seven-year extension between University of Alabama Athletics and Townsquare Media Tuscaloosa, taking the partnership all the way through 2024. Crimson Tide games and related programming will be broadcast on Townsquare’s 95.3 FM The Bear, Tide 102.9 FM, Catfish 1230 AM and 1001.1 FM, and Praise 790 AM and 93.3 FM.