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The Federal Communications Commission has voted to relax its third-party fundraising restrictions to permit noncommercial stations to air limited fundraisers for the benefit of other non-profit organizations. Until now they could only conduct on-air fundraising for third parties if they received an FCC waiver or the fundraising activity did not alter or suspend regular programming.

Univision San Antonio has flipped its AC Rhythmic format playing Hip Hop on KMYO-FM to a new Latino Mix. It's an English-language station designed for Latino San Antonians, featuring a blend of Top 40 and Latin Rhythmic hits. The playlist includes Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and The Chainsmokers to J Balvin, Nicky Jam, Enrique Iglesias, and Daddy Yankee.

Forty new SpokenEditions have been released onto iHeartMedia’s all-in-one digital music, podcasting, and live-streaming radio service. SpokenEditions draws from written content from premium publishers. SpokenEditions provides access to audio versions of some of the top written publications across a number of subjects.

SBS's much-delayed Q4 2016 earnings were released late last night and the company reported consolidated net revenue of $42.1 million compared to $40.3 million a year earlier. That's an increase of $1.8 million or 5%. SBS's radio division net revenues increased $1.1 million or 3%, due to increases in national, local, and digital sales. Local sales increased in Chicago, Miami New York and Puerto Rico.

In addition to finally releasing Q4 earnings Spanish Broadcasting Systems has also laid out what it is calling "a comprehensive recapitalization plan, and also says it is in default of its notes and a covenant.

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.