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The Current has the details about public radio’s Car Talk which is now airing as "best of" on 654 stations. That will end September 30, 2017.

Subscribers will start receiving our most popular issue of the year today as it makes its way around the country via snail mail and digital download. Our 2016 power issue is the most successful -- and thickest -- Top 40 issue in nearly a decade, packed with great support from radio's vendors, new Top 40 lists, interviews with radio's 40 Most Powerful, and a special feature on Radio One founder Cathy Hughes, who will be given the 2016 Radio Ink Lifetime Leadership Award later this year at Forecast.

Public Media Company PRX is opening a podcasting studio in Boston called the Podcast Garage. The plan is for the facility to serve as a recording space and educational center, dedicated to the craft of audio storytelling.

Steph Lova is joining morning host Joe Clair and News Director Guy Lambert as part of the Joe Clair Morning Show on WPGC-FM in Washington, D.C., beginning August 15.

He becomes Senior VP of Programming for iHeartMedia's St. Louis cluster. AJ has been with iHeart since 2012, previously as Senior VP of Programming for Richmond and Norfolk.

Cliff Smithers is taking over as PD and morning host at Classic Hits WRQN-FM in Toledo. Smithers is heading home.

The iHeartMedia’s station announced Wednesday that Fresno radio personality Jason Hurst is joining 98.9’s weekday lineup. He’ll join Teri Ann Schlesser to host the new Jason and Teri Ann Morning Show. The new program will debut Monday, August 1 and will air weekday mornings from 5-10 a.m.

Twenty-year-old Messiah College student Mikaela Mummert has won the inaugural, nationwide BMI Founders Award for Radio Broadcasting scholarship competition. Mummet was presented the $5,000 scholarship award by BMI Vice President of Industry Relations and scholarship Director Dan Spears, along with BMI Foundation Executive Vice President David F. Bills, at the 41st annual Conclave Learning Conference on July in Minneapolis.

(by Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads) Tuesday I had a feeling that I should call Jim Carnegie. No reason except that we hadn’t talked in a while since I purchased RBR-TVBR from him, and he was on my mind. On Wednesday, I learned of his passing.

In Radio Ink's 2016 40 Most Powerful People in Radio issue, out this week, you'll be reading many quotes like this one from radio's most powerful. This powerful quote about management and leadership comes from a CEO that has been on our list every year since 1997.