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It’s nearly Daytime Village time again, at the iHeartCountry Festival, a Music Experience by AT&T on Saturday, May 6 from 2:30-6 p.m. CT. The show will be held at Frank Erwin Center's North Box Office Plaza in Austin, Texas. 

The former co-hosts of ABC’s Good Morning America, David Hartman and Joan Lunden (pictured), will receive the NAB Distinguished Service Award at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. The awards will be presented at the NAB Show Opening on Monday, April 24.

has been named the 2016 South Caroline Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. The 58th Annual NSMA’s Awards will be held on June 26, 2017 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where Sturgis will receive his honor. Sturgis began his career working at recording studios in Knoxville and Atlanta.

Entravision has inked its popular President and COO for another three years, through February 29, 2020. Liberman will be paid an annual salary of $650,000 and be eligible for a bonus of up to 100% of his base salary. He's also eligible for equity incentive grants under the company’s equity incentive plans.

Women’s sports are often very much in the shadow of their male counterparts. So it’s refreshing that on Tuesday, March 28, ESPN Radio and espnW will collaborate on a three-hour program called The Trifecta: Women Making History Special. It will air 9 p.m. – Midnight ET on ESPN Radio and be simulcast on ESPN3. 

The bedding retailer jumped from 26th to seventh on the Media Monitors weekly spot chart, airing 29,305 commercials on radio stations all across the country last week. GEICO held steady at number one (44,796) followed by The Home Depot (33,574), Indeed (33,369), Wendy's (31,428) and JC Penney (29,715).

It took more than just the luck of the Irish for Blarney Stone Broadcasting To Win Best Small Business Award from the Michigan Small Business Development Center. It was just one of 12 companies from around the state selected to receive the award – from a field of 5,500 small businesses.

The flip in Savannah took place this past Friday. Cumulus changed from NASH Icon to Hot AC (102.1 The Sound, The New Sound of Savannah) on WZAT-FM. The syndicated Bert Show will air in morning drive.

International news-clipping service Grabien is releasing two new production tools. The tools provide a way for producers to clip the news in real time, as well as from a searchable archive of full-length news programming.

Late on Friday, SAG-AFTRA sent out a press release demanding Spanish Broadcasting System "engage in good faith bargaining with its on-air employees who face unfair treatment by the company." SAG-AFTRA says the problems are taking place at L.A. radio stations – La Raza (KLAX/KXOL – 97.9 FM) and La Mega (96.3 FM).