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Beasley Media Group has named Heidi Raphael as Vice President of Corporate Communications. She replaces Soni Dimond who left the company to pursue other opportunities. Raphael is no stranger to many of the Beasley stations, having served as Senior VP of Corporate Communications at Greater Media before Beasley purchased that company.

Jim Brown is the new Sales Manager for Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, as well as local traffic ad sales across the CBS Radio Philadelphia cluster. Brown began his career in Philadelphia media in 1983 as an AE at KYW-TV3, now CBS-3. He's worked as as SVP and D.O.S. at Shadow Networks and he was a founding partner at Traffic.com.

The Classic Hip Hop jocks debut their new weekend show May 20. The two-hour show is called Weekend Blast and has been taken up in 15 markets to date, including Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Dallas. Ed Lover (pictured) is a Grammy-nominated member of the the Hip Hop Hall of Fame.

Monday afternoon, Cumulus reported first quarter 2017 revenue of $264 million. In 2016, the company took in $268.5 million in the first quarter. That's a decline of 1.7%. Political revenue in Q1 of 2016 was $2.9 million, compared to only $500,000 this year. Q2 is pacing flat in light of what the company calls a "very soft market."

The students of Edgewood High School were getting ready for prom when six tornadoes hit their town of Canton, TX, including the barn where the prom was to be held. New arrangements were made and Big Al and Jenna from The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show stepped back in time to attend and host the evening.

Legendary Motor City Rock Station 101.1 WRIF “The Riff” is the first radio station to take advantage of Apple's new iOS stickers, with the release of the Dave & Chuck WRIF iPhone sticker pack,  provided by jacapps.

The bi-weekly podcast will be hosted by Y&R’s Global CEO David Sable. Called Madison & Culture, it will look at the ways marketing and advertising both reflect and shape our culture. Launching May 16, new episodes will be released twice a month.

Public radio has gone in big with podcasts, and this summer's offering includes six shows across several genres, including entertainment for the kids.

In his latest blog on the Westwood One website, Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard says, "Since two-thirds of Pandora’s listening occurs at home, Pandora suffers from “empty room syndrome.” The ads are on, but no one is there to hear them.

That’s the cutoff for radio stations around the country to re-aim their satellites from AMC-8 to the new AMC-18 at 105 degrees West Longitude. Failure to do so will result in the loss of all radio network programming from all major companies.