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Al Hart, a legendary voice in San Francisco, died Thursday morning. According to his family, Hart died following a long-term illness. Hart joined KCBS in 1966, two years before the all-news format arrived. During his 34 year career at KCBS, Hart delivered the news of the day, including major Bay Area stories such as the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and the 1991 Oakland Hills fire. He retired in 2000. Picture courtesy sfgate.com.

The new lineup on the network goes into effect Monday, February 8, and NBC Sports Radio’s Program Director Jack Silver says, “I couldn’t be prouder of our network’s evolution and our role as a benchmark for sports talk radio. This new lineup leverages our best assets and connects them to our expanding audience of passionate sports fans. We look forward to an exciting 2016.” Here are the changes...

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Energy 102.3, Peoria, announced that Scott Ehlke has moved from nights to middays on Energy 102.3. The move was made Monday, January 11, 2016 at 10 a.m. Ehlke, a Michigan native, has been in radio for five years.

A day after several changes were made by Beasley at its Eastern North Carolina stations, changes were made in Southwest Florida. After seven years as one of three co-hosts on B1039’s Big Mama and the Wild Bunch show, Adam Star is promoted to Operations Manager of the Fort Myers Cluster.

Benztown announces that it has signed two prominent character voiceover actors, Rachel Butera and Scott Whyte, to do promos and celebrity impersonations for their radio imaging and production library customers.

This FCC filing is over the planned ($3.04 Million) Fort Myers, FL purchase of WLVO-FM by Sun Broadcasting from EMF. This joint filing by two fierce Fort Myers competitors states that "Sun's acquisition of WLVO does not comply with the Commission's rules because evidence shows that Sun already exceeds the multiple ownership limit in Fort Myers through its de facto control of other stations in the market."

The concept was created by The Huffington Post and hosted by Sam Stein and Jason Cherkis. It's called 'Candidate Confessional' which focuses on the rough-and-tumble business of political elections.

iHeartMedia announced Wednesday that four of its senior executives have been promoted into newly created roles as Division Presidents. These executives – Hartley Adkins, Greg Ashlock, Matt Martin and Tom McConnell – were formerly iHeartMedia Executive Vice Presidents of Operations.

(THURSDAY UPDATE) Without giving any details - or the reason why Brown left the studio - Reach Media says the co-host will return to the Tom Joyner Morning Show Monday morning. Joyner mentioned it briefly, with no details either on his show Thursday.