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Todd Stach has been named Network PD at WAY Media. Stach is a Christian music radio industry veteran, most recently serving as Chief Content Officer/Director of Programming at The River in Columbus, OH for the past 11 ½ years. WAY-FM and WAY Media Network are heard on FM signals in 26 states.

Our friends at Media Monitors tell us that Laurie Logan has been hired as its new West Coast Sales Executive. Logan, who had been Affiliate Sales Manager at United Stations Radio Networks, will be in charge of managing and increasing Media Monitors client presence on the West Coast. Prior to working at USRN Logan worked for KFI-AM, Rockline and Premiere.

It's the 4th year for the conference all about Podcasting and this year it looks like radio will be represented very well. Over three days in Anaheim, 150 speakers from the best podcasts and the most successful podcast networks and companies will take part in over 80 different sessions. Get more details on "The Movement" HERE

JVC's Orlando Rock station has signed veteran rocker Mick Dolan. The time of his air-shift has not been announced. Dolan spent years at Orlando’s WDIZ, then WJRR and Smooth Jazz outlet WLOQ. He joins Bud 94.1 from Salem Media Group where he was doing news and traffic reports.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has released the organization’s first-ever buyer’s guide for podcast advertising, which provides insights into audience demographics, listener behaviors, creative treatments, ad formats, delivery and targeting, and ad effectiveness measurement. Recent IAB research conducted by PwC forecasts that podcast advertising revenues will top $220 million in 2017, an 85 percent leap from $119 million in 2016.

Black Diamond Broadcasting has hired Trudi Daniels to host mid-days on Rock 105 & 95.5 in Traverse City, MI. Daniels is no stranger to the rock genre, having been a familiar voice on Detroit rock stations for the past 25 years. Trudi was a part of the Drew & Mike Show on legendary rock station WRIF for nearly 22 years, and spent 3-years as the Morning Host on classic rocker -WCSX.

Spreaker & BlogTalkRadio have announced a merger of the two companies. The combined entity will consist of more than 50,000 podcasts, millions of listeners, and a suite of creation and monetization technologies. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. No word on what the new name of the merged company will be.

This goes back to a story we first reported in May about Amos Ayers. The 49-year old former host of Wild 102.9 in Reno was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulted an 18-year-old. He was accused of taking the 18 year old back to his office where he allegedly assaulted her. Ayers has plead guilty to the sexual assault charge and now faces one to six years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender.

On Tuesday, the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs announced that the club has reached an agreement to extend their partnership with Union Broadcasting's Sports Radio 810 WHB-AM. Since 2010, Sports Radio 810 WHB has been the official sports radio home of the Chiefs. The length of the extension was not disclosed.

Chris Wegmann becomes the new VP/Market Manager for Entercom in New Orleans, overseeing WWL AM/FM, WLMG-FM, WKBU-FM, WEZB-FM, WWWL-AM, and The New Orleans Saints Radio Network. Prior to joining Entercom, Wegmann was President of the Radio Division of Radio One. He replaces Chris Claus who announced his retirement earlier this month.