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CBS Radio has announced the appointment of Fred Bennett to the newly created position of VP/GM, Traffic Operations and Partnerships. Bennett is charged with building an in-house traffic content and sales operation to serve CBS Radio's 117 radio stations.

Jeff Mitchell has been appointed to the position of General Manager for Salem Media Group’s stations in Dallas. Mitchell has been with Salem Dallas as Director of Sales for the past 6 ½ years.

Al P is the new nighttime host for CHR Top 40 station, WFLC/HITS 97.3. The young jock started his radio career at the ripe old age of 16, hosting and mixing an Internet radio show.  At 19 he interned for at SBS Entertainment in New York City, then scored his big break when he was hired to be a part of the morning show at CBS’ WBMP.

She's been a regular on Radio Ink's annual top PD list. Yesterday, Charese Fruge informed Radio Ink she was leaving her position as Vice President of Programming and Operations Manager for CBS Radio in Houston. Here's what Fruge told us...

iHeartMedia West Palm Beach says that Rich Dickerson will retire from The Love Doctors on December 16. The Love Doctors airs afternoons on WZZR-FM Real Radio 94.3. Dickerson launched The Love Doctors in 1991 on WZZR-FM after hosting an earlier incarnation of the show on iHeartMedia rock station WKGR-FM.

Radio One CEO Alfred Liggins was at the podium at Forecast 2017 Wednesday when his mother, Radio One Founder Cathy Hughes, accepted her Lifetime Achievement Award from Radio Ink. Humble as always, Hughes thanked everyone in the audience for their help when she first started out in the radio business. Pictured with Ms. Hughes here are Liggins, Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti, Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads, and Dan Mason.

William (Bill) Shearer, a member of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) Board of Directors in the 1980s and 90s, passed away November 1 after a lengthy illness. During his NABOB Board tenure, Shearer was the General Manager and then eventual owner of KGFJ-AM in Los Angeles.

In his Forecast 2017 keynote address Wednesday, Borrell Associates CEO Gordon Borrell gave the radio industry five issues they should look out for in the year ahead. Here's what they are...

That's what The Tennessean is reporting. The paper says it’s all part of the company's upcoming spin-off from CBS Corporate and the jobs would be mostly back-office functions. The paper reports CBS Radio would invest $5 million in two possible downtown locations being considered.

The exclusive data partner of the Broadcaster Traffic Consortium, HERE, which produces mapping and location technology, announced that its HD+ Traffic service will be available in select 2017 Hyundai cars sold in the U.S. and Canada. HERE HD+ Traffic is a distribution mechanism that offers drivers real-time traffic information by combining broadcast and connected vehicle technology.