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The Syracuse station – AKA WSKO-AM – welcomes back the popular Sports Talk show The Bud and The Manchild Show beginning Tuesday, May 30. The show has aired on WTLA-AM and FM for the last year and a half.

Paul Lotsof owns CAVE-FM in Benson, Arizona. For two years Lotsof has been airing PSA's that, according to KVOA-TV, urge people to hide their child pornography. Lotsof disagrees with Arizona’s laws on child pornography and he's been airing the PSA's because he wants the laws changed. And now the station is under investigation by the local authorities.

The buyer of Emmis' only L.A. station is the Meruelo Group. The Meruelo Group, whose Meruelo Media affiliate acquired L.A. TV station KWHY-22 in 2011 and radio station KDAY-FM in 2014, is the largest minority owned media group in California. Emmis purchased KPWR-FM from Century Broadcasting in May 1984. The transaction is expected to close later this year.

Emmis purchased the L.A. station in 1984 for $10 million. As you've read in the previous story Emmis is selling the station for just under $83 million. Last month Emmis cut a deal with lenders which included a stipulation that Emmis sell $80 million worth of assets and close on that sale by July of 2018. No doubt CEO Jeff Smulyan already had this sale to Meruelo in the works.

Some readers may be surprised that Emmis KPWR in Los Angeles wasn't scooped up by a traditional broadcaster. L.A. is home to Cumulus, iHeart, CBS (soon to be Entercom), Univision, SBS and Entravision among others.

Nearly two years ago syndicated radio host and popular actor and singer John Tesh was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Today, we have some very good news about this story.

Tyler Frye joined KRBE Houston's on-air lineup in April 2015 and has just signed a multi-year extension.

The afternoon drive co-host will add Music Director to her daily responsibilities. Hutton is a 20-year veteran of Detroit radio and was the midday host on CIMX for 10 years before becoming afternoon drive host on WGPR The Bone, as well as Program Director of WGPR HD3 and The Oasis HD2.

Phoenix-based Johnjay Van Es co-hosts The Johnjay & Rich Show, and the publication was interested in how he has combined the power and reach of his nationally syndicated radio show with social media to find “forever homes” for more than 500 dogs with his #LovePup campaign.

One side-effect from the explosion of FM translators is the possibility some of them may cause interference with existing radio stations. That's what happened to Lakes Media's WLUS-FM in Durham. Lakes Media President Tom Birch says a process that began nearly a year ago ended Tuesday.