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NuVoodoo Media Services has appointed media and content strategist PJ Kling to the newly created position of VP for Product & Business Development. Part of Kling's responsibilities will be to expand NuVoodoo’s relationships with radio stations, artists, and record labels.

Radio's Mentoring & Inspiring Women group has announced its mentees to participate in the 2016 Mildred Carter Mentoring Program. Now in its 15th year, the program matches up-and-coming women in radio with female professionals recognized as successful radio leaders. The program has successfully mentored 35 women since it began. Here is the 2016 class of mentees....

iHeartMedia's NewsRadio 610 and NewsRadio 96.7 in New Hampshire held its second annual Make 12 Hours Count radiothon and raised over $156,000 for Veterans Count, an organization that provides financial assistance, services and resources to New Hampshire veterans, service members and their families.

Jason Wolfe gets the newly created position of Network Manager for the Howie Carr Radio Network. He'll be charge of building and expanding the reach and brand of the Howie Carr Show, which is now heard on 27 stations across New England.

Scripps owns 94.5 KTI COUNTRY in Milwaukee and the station announced Wednesday that Britt Pearson is joining the Jake & Tanner morning show as producer. Pearson will handle some on-air hosting duties. VP/GM Tom Langmyer said, "We're committed to breaking out of the industry rut of big companies that piped-in recorded voice-tracked hosts from out of the market and formats shaken out of a box."

Emmis is bringing the Hip Hop festival to Tokyo in July. HOT 97 signed a multi-year license agreement with Japan-based Avex Live Creative, an entertainment and production company in Asia.

Zac Wellsandt, also known as Mayhem, has been promoted to Director of CHR/AC Operations for the Central Texas Region. He'll oversee KXXM, KZEP, KQXT, and KQXT-HD in San Antonio, and KHFI, KPEZ, KVET-HD, and KASE-HD2 in Austin.

The question we raised in our headlines Tuesday launched a day-long discussion about how many commercials is too many commercials to play every hour. Let's keep the conversation going today. If you missed our story yesterday, here it is again. Feel free to leave your opinion at the end of the story.

After being pushed down to number two by iHeartMedia's KISS-FM in Los Angeles in 2014, Hubbard's all-news WTOP in Washington D.C. has recaptured the title of top billing radio station in America. Hubbard's all-news outlet in Washington DC took in $65 million in 2015, beating iHeart's KISS-FM by $300,000.

Five of the top 10 stations on BIA/Kelsey's highest billers of 2015 come from iHeartMedia's New York and Los Angeles clusters, totaling $234.9 million. CBS owns four of the top 10 billers, making up another $175.3 million in revenue. Three CBS stations come from New York City, the other from Chicago. Four of the top 10 stations were from the AM dial. Here's a chart of all 10 of the 2015 top billing radio stations in the country.