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Imagine waking up one morning as your cell phone and e-mail buzz crazy with questions and messages about your station's website, which in the middle of the night, was somehow redirected to a porn site. That's exactly what happened to the KCAA (Loma Linda, CA) website. CEO Fred Lundgren says, "What I saw on the home page was enough to give me a heart attack." He details what he had to go through to get it fixed in a Huffington Post Blog.

Cumulus is moving Mike Bell over to Hip Hop station WEAS-FM in Savannah as the new PD. Bell was PD for Cumulus' mainstream Urban station WYNN-FM in Florence, SC. Prior to joining Cumulus, Bell was on the air and an APD in Tyler, TX, and Madison, WI.

WEEI's Kirk & Callahan morning show were invited by Press Secretary Sean Spicer to attend President Trump's reception for the five-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots. They also broadcast their show live from D.C. Pictured (left to right) are Gerry Callahan, Spicer, Kirk Minihane, WEEI PD Joe Zarbano and Kirk & Callahan's Senior Producer Chris Curtis.

Cumulus promotes John Shomby to PD at NASH FM (WKDF) in Nashville, taking over that position from Charlie Cook. He keeps his NASH Director of Programming position he has held with Cumulus Media for the past year-and-a-half. Cook continues as VP/Country for Cumulus, as well as the VP of Operations for Cumulus Nashville with oversight of WKDF, and as the PD NASH ICON (WSM-FM).

Todd Feinburg is taking over afternoons at CBS Radio's News/Talk station WTIC-AM in Hartford. He'll focus on local issues, topics of the day, politics and more, and replaces Joe D and Gresh, which was a sports show.

The former Motley Crue bassist continues his rise in the radio world. His Side Show franchise has just reached 100 affiliates with the addition of WKBU Bayou 95.7 in New Orleans. Effective April 28, The Side Show Classic with Nikki Sixx will join the station’s Friday evening lineup in the 10 p.m. to midnight timeslot.

You hear more and more stories about it. Advertisers are spending increasing amounts on digital, yet, in many cases, they have no idea where it's going or if human beings are even seeing or hearing their ads. A new report by Borrell & Associates continues that theory, as online fraud continues to climb and advertisers are getting duped in the process.

Garvey, Schubert, Barer's Media, Telecom and Technology Group has filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the Commission to repeal the radio and television Main Studio Rule. The current rule requires radio and television stations to maintain a main studio within or near their communities of license. There has been a push, as of late, to get the rule repealed...

iHeartMedia's KISS-FM in Austin received some national attention Wednesday for a promotion called "Kiss-A-Kia." Listeners had to keep their lips puckered to the car (with a 10-minute break every hour). Whoever lasted the longest won the vehicle.

(By Paul Cramer) The term artificial intelligence often evokes images of sentient computers from Star Trek or cyborgs from The Terminator. While those are extreme examples of artificial intelligence or AI, the Oxford Dictionary gives a more pragmatic definition of AI as computers that have the capability to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, and decision-making.