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The KTJJ-FM morning host has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Farmington Area Chamber of Commerce (Missouri). The Achievement Award is not given out every year but only when an individual has stood out above the rest.

Orban Labs has promoted David Rusch to Sales Manager, North America. Rusch had been Director of North American Sales and Marketing with the company from 2002-2014. Between 2014 and early 2017, he  remained involved with Orban in an auxiliary role. Rusch began his radio career in 1982 as an Account Executive for KLFF-AM/KMZK-FM in Phoenix, AZ.

Conservative warrior and capitalist evangelist Wayne Allyn Root is well known for his impassioned approach to Talk radio. An unabashed Trump supporter, Root takes his listeners to the outer reaches of America’s right wing and stirs things up. USA Radio Network has decided that makes for dynamic radio and has announced an agreement for national syndication with the host.

iHeartRadio’s Artist Stories is a popular video series that takes a deep dive into how artists got their start, and explores what inspires them. And it was just honored by the 21st Annual Webby Awards in the Best Film & Video -- Unscripted (Branded) category.

On the Move with Enrique Santos is the first English-language radio show to feature Enrique Santos, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of iHeartLatino, iHeartMedia’s new Hispanic platform. The new show will be a two-hour, music-intensive CHR weekend program debuting April 15 on more than 100 iHeart stations. The show will originate from Miami.

Cumulus has hired Jeff Lyon as VP/GM for its four-station cluster in Abilene. Lyon joins Cumulus from Townsquare, where he was President/Chief Revenue Officer for its four stations in Victoria, TX, for 21 years. Prior to that, he was VP/GM for Sierra Industries' radio stations KSNM-FM and KXDC-FM in Las Cruces, NM.

Commonwealth CEO Steve Newberry has been involved in radio's royalty fight for nearly a decade. He's testified several times before Congress (he's also a former NAB Joint Board Chair) and has been involved in dozens of meetings on this topic. He's one of the radio's best experts on the topic with backpacks full of knowledge on every angle of this issue.

On Thursday, we told you about the latest ploy by Congress to get radio to pay for songs it airs on music stations. Broadcast attorney David Oxenford did the industry an even bigger favor when, in his latest blog, he dug deeper into the bill to grind out the details about just how much it might cost you if the "PROMOTE" Bill was ever passed.

(by Ken Dardis) Please say this with me: It is not a tax that Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) introduced to Congress this week. We got the the immediate, and expected, disapproval from the radio industry. 'It promotes artists.' 'Radio should charge for advertising the song.' 'Lost jobs.' 'Our station will go all talk.'

(Paul Rotella) Every Congress, a few well-meaning, but misinformed legislators appear to forget that they represent the people of their districts and not the foreign-owned record companies, and introduce, in one form or another, the toxic royalty fee legislation commonly known as the “Performance Tax.” It does no one any good at all, and helps stifle the creative growth and opportunities for success of emerging artists...