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Earls Family Broadcasting in Arkansas has added a new radio station to its lineup. On Saturday, October 1, the new 98.1 FM, all-Christmas went on the air. Dubbed Branson’s Classic Christmas, the station will air Christmas music 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through December 25.

Herbster becomes VP of programming for iHeartMedia’s Pacific Northwest Region, as well as serving as PD of Z100 and JAM’N 107.5 in Portland. The region includes Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Fairbanks and Anchorage.

It’s the Hagerstown-Chambersburg market and they’ve snapped up Dorsey to be their new VP/Market Manager. The market is home to WHAG-AM, WCHA-AM, WCHA-FM, WIKZ-FM, WQCM-FM, and WDLD-FM. Most recently, Dorsey held the position of Director of Sales in the Hagerstown-Chambersburg market.

The news comes from the 89.3 WFPL website. Bickers was a host on 89.3 WFPL and 91.9 WFPK for nearly 20 years. He died Thursday. He was 45 years old. Those who knew him best described him as affable, funny, and engaging.

Twenty-eight-year radio vet Mike Vincent has left his PD/on-air post at WSJR/NASH FM 93.7 in Wilkes Barre, PA, to take up his new dual role for Cumulus’ four-station cluster in Melbourne, FL.

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dave Ramsey presented his Smart Money event to a sold out crowd in Boston on Thursday by filling the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Here Ramsey is pictured with consultant Holland Cooke, and Phil Zachary, VP and market manager for Entercom New England.

The Portland, OR, Hip Hop station elected to promote from within and give Chris "Lucky the DJ" Stewart the PD position. Stewart began his radio career as an intern at KTTB-Minneapolis, then served in several different roles, including Morning Producer at WRDW-Philadelphia, nights at KQQB-Spokane, and Assistant PD/afternoons at KSAS-Boise.

On Thursday, The FCC adopted rules to extend to broadcast licensees the same streamlined rules and procedures that wireless carriers use for having foreign ownership approved.

(by John Garziglia) The FCC in a just-adopted decision made it easier for a foreign investor to own a part of, or all of, a US broadcast station. Here is how, as a practical matter, the FCC decision is likely to affect radio station ownership and, through expanded investment opportunities, possibly increase station values.

(By Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti) Last week, I had the honor of presenting the 24th Radio Wayne Awards at the Radio Show in Nashville. It was both an inspiring and humbling opportunity and a role I recently assumed as part of my duties as Radio Ink’s publisher.