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Philips New Chief Revenue Officer for CBS Radio Bob Philips assumes this newly created leadership position, effective immediately. Philips will be responsible for leading all aspects of revenue generation for the company at the corporate, regional, and local levels. He will be based in New York and report to CBS RADIO’s President, Andre Fernandez.

Rob Johnson is the new midday host on WOCQ (OC104). Johnson makes the move to Delmarva, MD, after spending seven years doing afternoon drive on WJKS/KISS 101.7 in Philadelphia. He began his career in radio in WQBT in Savannah, GA.

The Denver Post reports that Paul MacGregor, who spent 30 years on Denver radio as "Mr Fix-It" on KOA and other stations, died on November 4 at age 75. His show, giving advice to listeners on home repair and maintenance, was at one time heard on more than 75 stations nationwide.

Nielsen says the problem took place between November 3 and November 9 and it's being blamed on the company moving to a new audio data collection site. Eight percent of the installed PPMs across the 48 PPM markets lost connectivity and became inactive and this will affect the December PPM monthly survey. Nielsen says it has contacted the homes affected and panelists have been sent new PPMs. Only 49% of the replacement meters are back online so far. Nielsen expects the balance to come online in the next several days. Here is the statement Nielsen sent out to customers...

You may recognize the man in the picture, holding the issue of Radio Ink magazine that he is also featured in. The President-elect attended one of Radio Ink's 40 Most Powerful People in Radio receptions at a previous Forecast in New York City.

The Commission slaps Vasco Oburoni with the hefty fine after repeated warnings about operating the pirate station at 102.3 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The complaint to the FCC started when Beasley's Country station WKLB-FM at 102.5 was being interfered with back in June 2015. Agents found an FM antenna mounted on the roof of Christian Praise International’s church building in Worcester.

Everyone wants to see radio not just growing again in 2017, they want to see revenue growing at a very decent clip. Radio executives don’t want to buy into the statement that “Flat is the new normal” — they are not OK with that. So how do radio stations around the country get revenue jumping again?

(By Michael Dudding) Small-market radio success is very attainable when you decide your station is going to be the best. If you can use just one or two of these ideas to help your small-market station grow, then I’ve accomplished my goal.

The results are now in, and Donald Trump has won the presidency in a stunning upset, confounding most pollsters and a lot of mainstream media pundits. Among the few who saw this coming was Sean Hannity. And we have him for Forecast 2017!

Sun Broadcast Group and Dave Scott’s RadioTraffic.com have extended their network ad sales agreement. Sun has been providing national ad sales support to radiotraffic.com since 2015. The extension announced today will include the network’s 2017 and 2018 sales seasons.