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Sun Broadcast Group has signed a multiyear extension with Chief Operating Officer Julio Aponte. Under the agreement, Aponte will continue to head the daily operations of Sun’s New York City and Boca Raton offices as well as oversee the company’s sales department. He's been COO since 2014.

The Beasley station is bringing in Erin Vermeulen to join Big Jim O’Brien on the WCSX-FM morning team. Her start date is Monday, July 10. Vermeulen began her career at the former 1310 WYUR in Detroit, and was most recently heard on the air as a member of the Bill Handel Morning Show at KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles.

Peter Thiele is the new PD for Cumulus' Newsradio 102.9 KARN in Little Rock. Thiele has programmed spoken-word stations in New York City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, San Antonio, Greenville/Spartanburg, SC, and Huntsville.

The FCC says Conroy Dawson must pay a $25,000 penalty for operating a pirate radio station at 97.5-FM in Paterson, New Jersey. Over a year ago, New York field agents investigated Dawson's operation which identified itself as “WBLR – Big Link Radio 97.5 FM.” They have concluded his argument against paying the fine doesn't fly.

Between April and mid-summer Borrell & Associates asked over 7,500 small business owners 44 questions and has been pushing out the data in a weekly chart. In this week's chart 1,907 local advertisers responded to the question about whether they planned to cut or eliminate a certain media from their ad budget. So exactly how did radio stack up?

The Radio Television Digital News Association has announced the winners of the 2017 national Edward R. Murrow Awards, which recognize outstanding work produced by radio, television, and digital news organizations around the world. Let's take a look at the radio winners.

Another big win for Amazon and audio listening in the home. SiriusXM has announced Howard Stern and more than 200 other channels are now available to paid subscribers on Amazon's Alexa devices.

It's called FOMO New York City, a new daily e-newsletter that delivers New York-centric news and updates right to a subscriber’s inbox. About the new product, CBS Radio New York Market Manager Marc Rayfield says, “FOMO New York City delivers top local news in an easy-to-read format that makes sense for how we live and consume media today."

The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters sent 20 representatives to meet with Major General Chris Hughes, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Cadet Command, in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Hughes explained that he needed help for Cadet Command to increase the number of African Americans applying to ROTC and seeking to become officers in the U.S. Army.

News correspondent Steve Kastenbaum has won two silver awards from the New York Radio Festival international competition. One was for reports during the presidential campaign on how some votes of dead people were counted. The other for Westwood One News’ breaking coverage of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando.