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The Carroll County Times reports family members said Dark died of cancer at the age of 82. Dark had been on the air in Maryland for more than 50 years, including 30 years at Baltimore's WCAO-AM.

It’s been one year since Mary Berner took over Cumulus, and when radio executives converge on Nashville next week, for the Radio Show, they'll get their first full explanation of how things are going at one of radio's largest companies. Mary Berner is on the cover of our special Radio Show issue and the new CEO did not shy away from any of our questions.

On Thursday, CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves answered questions at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference. The majority of his 43 minutes on stage was dedicated to television, however radio did come up, and here's what Moonves had to say.

Community Broadcasters has hired Jerry Hannahs as its new Fort Walton Beach GSM. Hannahs returns to the market in which he began his radio career. He moves to Community Broadcasters from West Virginia where he was Market Manager for Forever Media.

It's the final of the big three labels that Pandora was trying to nail down for its new streaming service. CEO Tim Westergren said, "Warner has been a tremendous partner to Pandora and we're thrilled to expand the relationship in a way that truly supports both of our businesses and the artists we serve."

This is the much talked about upgrade to the Pandora One service which includes more skips, replays, and offline listening that Pandora says "elegantly handles issues with lost connectivity and cellular data usage."

iHeartMedia Denver names Ryan Clune (left) Senior VP of Sales, and Michael Souza Senior VP of Strategic Partnerships. Here's what they'll be doing and the history of both of their radio careers...

TechCrunch is reporting that Spotify will go live in Japan before the end of September. The tech blog says that Spotify Premium will cost around 1,000 yen (close to $10).

It's been something CEO Jeff Haley (pictured) has told us would be coming and on Thursday the company announced it has integrated data from Nielsen, Strata, and Katz Radio Group’s programmatic exchange, Expressway, into Marketron’s Mediascape platform. And the company says these three new partnerships round out Marketron’s programmatic offering.

Martin (pictured here) will join Steve Inskeep and David Greene hosting the flagship morning drive show on NPR. She replaces Renee Montagne who is transitioning to her new role of Special Correspondent in November.