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It’s easy to get stuck in the mud in your social media if you don’t have a plan. Almost everyone in radio has some kind of active social media content plan…or something that started out like a plan. But when is the last time you reviewed it with your team and freshened it up together?

Gabriela “Lady G” Loredon has been promoted to PD at KVEG and KGVQ in Las Vegas by Kemp Broadcasting. Loredon has been working as Top 40/Mainstream KVGQ, and Top 40/Rhythmic KVEG (HOT 97.5) as MD and morning co-host at. She has been serving as Interim PD since the departure of former PD Sherita Saulsberry.

He’s an editor with the Weekly Standard and a contributor to ABC News. Now PodcastOne is giving Bill Kristol his shot at the podcast world. Kristol will bring his conservative views to the The Kristol Clear Podcast, wrapping up the week's news every Friday, and point out what will be the biggest stories and surprises of the days ahead.

Hall of Fame QB Len Dawson will be cutting back his duties for the Chiefs Radio Network. He's been part of the broadcast for 31 seasons and now he will focus only on the home games.

Here's a great example of why Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan believes the NextRadio app is a game-changer for the radio industry. NextRadio recently ran an 8-week promotion for a Disney contest called “Fly Away with Demi Lovato.” Here's how it worked...

Conservative talker Mark Belling has called Donald Trump a blowhard, buffoon, clown, fraud, and liberal. However, in his latest column, Belling says he will vote for Trump. "I don’t retract any of it. But more than half of life’s important choices are between bad options."

Twenty-one-year veteran morning host Dave Daniels has been handed that role for Cumulus station 100.7 KHAY in Oxnard/Ventura, CA. Daniels has been an Operations Manager, Program Director, and morning host in Santa Maria and Visalia, CA, and Phoenix, AZ. The Dave Daniels Show debuts Monday, July 18, on 100.7 KHAY from 6-10 a.m. weekdays.

In combination, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) have joined forces are inviting the Democratic and Republican presumptive presidential nominees to take part in a "Conversation with Black America."

In his latest blog, Amplifi Media CEO Steve Goldstein put together an outstanding how-to list for podcasters. Goldstein lays out seven specific items podcasters should focus on -- or avoid -- if they want to increase listeners and become a pro at podcasting.

As we've been telling you over the past two days, a company that promotes online music produced a study that said Millennials were running away from radio into the arms of streamers. Cumulus/Westwood One Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard took a whack at that study and produced 21 slides that refute it. He used data from Nielsen, Edison Research, and the Advertising Research Foundation to create the slides.