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Advertising management software company WideOrbit announced Monday that Townsquare will now use WideOrbit’s WO Traffic platform at all 310 of its radio stations. Townsquare becomes WideOrbit’s largest-ever deployment of its traffic platform at a single radio station group.

Dave Hovel resigned from his PD position at West Virgina Radio last Friday, as well as his morning show host gig at WICL in Williamsport, MD, to take on a new role with iHeart as Senior VP for Programming in the Salisbury, Maryland, market.

With the recent explosion of podcast listening, DMR Interactive has decided to embark on a new study. The company is teaming up with Texas A&M University’s Digital Media Research and Development Lab to examine the podcast space during the 2016-2017 academic year.

Newsday did the math and came to the conclusion that Yankees radio announcer John Sterling has called 4,453 consecutive games. It’s a streak that spans 28 baseball seasons.

(By Ronald Robinson) Apparently, the reach/frequency discussions have not stopped. Those having them, however, have been over-medicated and put to bed with the resultant hallucinations of fruit, candy, and cash that are part of the experience.

Cleans up awards, that is. Thirteen, in fact, from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters, including three 1st Place awards, four 2nd Place awards, and six Honorable Mentions. See the full listing...

iHeartRadio announced Monday a new update to their iHeartRadio for Auto app featuring two new integrations with MirrorLink ® RockScout and Drivemode. We've got all the details...

WPHT-AM morning drive host Chris Stigall has renewed his contract with the station. No other details were released other than it was a multi-year deal. He's been hosting mornings on the station for over five years now.

The syndicated talk program hosted by Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty will now be heard on Cumulus talk radio stations KKAT-AM, Salt Lake City; KTBL-AM, Albuquerque; KMJ-AM/FM, Fresno; and KVEN-AM, Ventura. The Armstrong & Getty Show’s first Cumulus affiliate came with the launch of the program on San Francisco’s KGO-AM in April of 2016.

Cox Media Group’s Classic Hits station WSRV-FM in Atlanta is changing its weekday schedule. Kaedy Kiely (pictured) will move from mornings to afternoon drive and Steve Craig, The River’s resident musicologist, will move to morning drive from afternoons.