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Alpha, Beasley, CBS, Cumulus/Westwood One, Emmis, Entercom, Radio One, and Townsquare are all now offering inventory on Katz's Programmatic buying platform.

The former KYGO Denver morning man accused of groping Taylor Swift at a 2013 concert meet-and-greet "had the profile of a person likely to sexually assault women,” according to University of Colorado Professor McFarland’s motion, says Lorraine Bayard de Volo. She's a professor of women and gender issues and has never even met David Mueller.

Kathy Hart from the Hall of Fame morning team in Chicago has been missing from the show for several weeks, according to Robert Feder, and with very little explanation. Here's what Hubbard Chicago Market Manager Jeff England told Radio Ink on Tuesday...

ESPN has made it official. Trey Wingo will join Mike Golic this fall when Mike Greenberg moves over to host his own program on the TV side of ESPN. Wingo and Golic will initially be simulcast on ESPN2, before moving to their permanent simulcast home on ESPNU. Mike Golic, Jr. will join the show every day from 6-7 a.m.

The disgraced former Fox TV personality said on his podcast this week that he'll be bantering back and forth with Glenn Beck every Friday. Beck's radio show is syndicated by Premiere. Beck and O'Reilly are good friends from their days working at Fox together. On his podcast, O'Reilly said, “We don't agree on everything, but it's very lively. And it's a good outlet for me.”

Two-thousand-watter WWXX-FM in Buckland, Virginia, goes to Educational Media Foundation for $250,000, according to Greg Guy of Patrick Communications. The station is now carrying sports, and EMF President Mike Novak tells us the format EMF will carry on the station has not been decided yet. Red Zebra has been selling off its stations in recent months.

Admittedly there was no traffic, since the bridge had just reopened after severe fire damage. Thanks to their wile and cunning, WNNX Rock 100.5 morning guys Bailey and Southside, along with their producer Digi-Dude, got the hop on the other eager media outlets and christened the bridge last week.

Memorial Day weekend will see a pair of special three-hour shows broadcast by the network:  America Remembers and Kelsea Ballerini’s Summer Road Trip.

Northern Michigan radio icon "Big Dog" Dave Sherbert is retiring May 19 after being a presence on the air since there since the 1970s. He is a familiar voice for Blarney Stone Broadcasting’s Q-100 (WQON, 100.3-FM). “It’s time,” Sherbert said.

Is CEO Mary Berner's turnaround at Cumulus working? As she closes in on her two year anniversary in September, Berner sounds cautiously optimistic. "As our Q1 results demonstrate, we have arrived at a financial inflection point in our turnaround. We are now starting to see the positive impact those efforts have had on our financial results."