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Programming veteran Morgan Prue has been named Assistant Program Director/Music Director at Beasley’s 105.7 WROR-FM in Boston. Prue served as APD at WMJX-FM/Boston (MAGIC 106.7) the past six years.

Spanish Broadcasting System, divestiture trustee CXR Radio and Cox Radio announced late on Thursday that SBS will purchase WPYO-FM in Orlando and WSUN-FM in Tampa. The sale price was not revealed in the press release.

Country Top 40 with Fitz and its syndication partner, Skyview Networks, is producing a Thanksgiving holiday special called Thankful for the Hits, co hosted by Dan + Shay, that will air on Saturday, November 26 and Sunday, November 27.

The NAB made it clear it was not happy with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's plan to leave the current ownership rules in place. It is now taking another step to keep the pressure on Wheeler to keep the issue alive and moving in a different direction.

Mailboxes are full of flyers, TV stations are full of mud-slingers and the phrase ...'I approve this message' can be heard on every radio station more than the station call letters. The political ad money is flying.

Local business owners and managers in upstate South Carolina are being invited to a free webinar. The Thursday May 21 webinar is part of an effort to help with the transition businesses are going through after COVID restrictions.

The latest print issue of Radio Ink is out. In it we reveal radio's Top 20 leaders. These are the executives radio's rank-and-file voted for as the people they love to work for. They are the people who know how to motivate their teams to success. They are winning at sales, programming, and management and mentoring their employees to greatness.

When you have the kind of scale iHeartMedia has you can score big wins like this one. iHeart is partnering with Paramount Pictures to help promote the release of the new film Rocketman, in a big big way.

(By Ed Ryan) I know, I'm starting to sound like a broken record on this topic (kids...a record is a round, flat, disk thing in which musical sound vibrates out of when struck with a tiny needle).

WTMJ (620 AM) in Milwaukee has hired Sandy Maxx to co-host Wisconsin's Afternoon News with John Mercure, Greg Matzek and Debbie Lagaza. Maxx joins the station after a stint at Milwaukee classic rock station WKLH (95.5 FM).