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(By Kevin Neathery) Constant recruiting is vital to building a great sales force and insulating revenue from attrition. Online job sites are highly effective and a must, but can’t match on-air recruiting to reach potential candidates already living or working in your coverage area.

(By Ronald Robinson) As provided in a recent Radio Ink report, Neilson numbers suggest that radio still enjoys a significant advantage over other electronic media in audience penetration. Depending on demographics, radio apparently continues to attract 90-95 percent of available audience. While no longer newsworthy, the stats may yet be useful to some AEs. So, what’s next?

They are both big radio advertisers, and they were very big last year. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported the two fantasy-sports websites will each pay $6 million to resolve lawsuits in New York regarding their advertising practices.

Country Radio Broadcasters is now accepting applications for the Rusty Walker Scholarship program, which provides an all-expenses-paid trip to, and attendance at, CRS 2017 in February. Applicants must be full-time radio station employees and a first-time CRS attendees. Three scholarships will be awarded. Apply at https://www.countryradioseminar.com/. Deadline is November 7.

The Financial Exchange with Barry Armstrong and Chuck Zodda will be added to NH1 News Radio WNNH FM 99.1 in Concord, and WEMJ FM 107.3 & AM 1490 in Laconia, both in New Hampshire.

CBS Radio and Simon & Schuster have launched a new podcast called “The Paper Donkey Podcast” on the play.it network. The 45-minute podcast is a conversation between writers and editors about their work and will be posted every other Wednesday. It's the second podcast created by CBS Radio and Simon & Schuster.

Buzz Knight, the longtime SVP/program development for Greater Media, will be joining Beasley as VP/programming on the close of Beasley's purchase of Greater Media. He takes over from Justin Chase, who, as reported earlier, has been promoted to EVP/programming for Beasley Media Group. Chase called Knight "incredibly strategic and well suited for the Beasley company culture."

As Beasley gets ready to close on its purchase of Greater Media, Justin Chase takes on a bigger role as Executive Vice President of Programming. Chase was VP of Programming since 2013, after four years of service as Operations Manager for Beasley's cluster in Vegas.

Although the station had nothing to announce at this time, several reports in New York have Chris Carlin joining Ike Reese for afternoon drive on CBS's WIP in Philadelphia. Carlin has co-hosted SportsNet New York’s Loud Mouths since 2008. Carlin has worked at SiriusXM and did fill-in work at FAN. Early in his radio career Carlin was Mike Francesa’s producer for six years. Picture courtesy SNY.tv

Country Singer Todd O’Neill has won the NASH Next 2016 Challenge artist development competition. O’Neill, who hails from Hammond, LA, will receive national radio airplay on Cumulus Media radio stations, a recording contract with Big Machine Label Group, and will have an original song produced by Jay DeMarcus...