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Guy Gordon will host a new afternoon talk show from 3-5 p.m. on WJR in Detroit starting January 3. Gordon has been in TV news in Detroit for over 30 years. Gordon's show replaces The Michael Savage Show.

CFO John Abbot (pictured), who's only been with the company since July, and General Counsel Richard Denning will both receive generous holiday bonuses this year courtesy of the Cumulus Board of Directors Compensation Committee. Abbot, who has repeatedly said Cumulus has too much debt, will be handed a check for $421,875. Denning gets $165,000.

United States Magistrate Judge Anthony Porcelli has set February 2nd as the date Nielsen and Todd Clem are to get together in a room and try to hammer out a deal in Clem's ratings tampering case.

Johnny O’Leary segues from his roles as APD and PM Drive Host on Atlanta’s Q100/WWWQ-FM to join WSSX-FM in Charleston where he'll be PD and take an on-air shift. O'Leary spent nine years at Q100 in Atlanta. Prior to that, he was PD for New South Radio and was also Imaging Director for Q102 in Cincinnati.

Imagine if marketers and advertisers could simply ask Amazon's Alexa device how their advertising campaign was working and have the device feed them back the data? It's happening now and it's very cool.

The Boston Globe has the details about listeners tuning in in droves to listen to both The Sports Hub (CBS) and WEEI (Entercom) during the fall.

ESPN has signed Bomani Jones to a multi-year extension. Jones, who joined ESPN full time in 2013, will continue to host The Right Time with Bomani Jones on ESPN Radio weekdays from 4-7 p.m. ET. 

Broadcast attorney David Oxenford details the SiriusXM/Turtles case shot down by the New York State Court of Appeals earlier this week, in his latest blog posting. If you thought that would be the end of the case, Oxenford says this is not the last we'll be hearing about pre-1972 recordings. Here's why...

Curtis Booker gets the promotion from APD to PD at KZMG-FM in Boise. He's been with the station since 2016, also holding on-air shifts at both KZMG-FM and sister station KWYD-FM. Impact Radio Group owns seven stations in the Treasure Valley.

While mourners held a candlelight vigil Tuesday for SBS New York DJ Jean Paul Guerrero (DJ Jinx Paul) police were still searching for the hit-and-run driver who killed him early Monday morning in Brooklyn.