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Rick Hendrick (pictured) is promoted to Operations Manager at Cumulus' six-station cluster in Montgomery. He'll hold on to his PD responsibilities at WXFX.

Ryan Gibbons joins Entercom's CHR KISS-FM in Milwaukee as on-air/producer for Riggs and Alley in Morning Drive. Gibbons comes from CBS Radio's KZOK-FM in Seattle where he was on-air/producer for the Danny Bonaduce Show.

Tennessee Titans’ tight end Delanie Walker will join the Midday 180 Team for a live one-hour show beginning Tuesday, September 13, 2016, from 1-2 p.m. CST. Walker joins broadcaster Chad Withrow, Jonathan Hutton, and Paul Kuharsky for the weekly Delanie Walker Show with a live studio audience in the 104.5 The Zone Music Performance Studio.

Tony Denton is the new Market Manager for Alpha's cluster in Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville. For nine years Denton was D.O.S. in that market. He was most recently a Market Manager for Curtis.

Dave Fuller is the new afternoon drive host at Detroit's NASH-FM WDRQ. Fuller hosted early afternoons on WDRQ from 1999-2004 before returning to the station in a part-time/swing capacity in May. A Detroit native, Fuller has also worked on the air at WOMC/WKQI in Detroit and in Toledo, Seattle, and Fort Myers.

Tino Cochino Radio is now airing weeknights 7-11 p.m. on 104.9 KBTE-FM in Lubbock. Cochino said, “It's an amazing feeling to be back on-air in the city where my career began. My love for radio was ignited the moment I walked out of Cavazos Junior High and saw a local station’s live remote set up."

The opinionated former ESPN baseball commentator picks up a weekend show on Carr's network. Schilling will host a three-hour Saturday morning show (9 a.m. to Noon) beginning September 10.

Ramar Communication’s KTTR-FM HD-2, and K245BG, Rock 96.9 has added 2 Guys Named Chris to morning drive.

The Rams are back in LA and Head Coach Jeff Fisher will be giving listeners insight into game strategies from the previous match-up, and previewing the next game, on The Jeff Fisher Show, 6-7 p.m. PT, beginning Tuesday, September 13.

He's never hidden the fact that broadcast radio is his biggest competitor and Wednesday was no exception. The Pandora CEO was answering questions at the Citi Global Technology Conference in New York and was asked about selling ads in the local markets. It was a perfect chance for Westergren to take a swipe at radio. But he also mentioned something his company will never be able to do, something radio will always be number one at.