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Bill Michaels, Program Director of radio stations WXKR-FM, WLQR-FM, WTOD-AM, and WQQO HD2, has been promoted to Operations Manager for the company’s station cluster in Toledo, OH, and Monroe, MI. It’s a new position, in which Michaels will manage station ops for eight stations in Toledo and Monroe, OH.

Country is the most popular music genre in the U.S., with 97 million fans, so why not mine for more talent? Cumulus’ “NASH Next 2016” competition will do just that. The winner of the four-month-long national competition will receive a record deal with Big Machine Label Group,

Another great example of radio working for the community. The name of the program is One Voice and it will be simulcast on New York radio stations WQHT-FM HOT 97, WBLS-FM 107.5, and WLIB-AM 1190, as well as online, Thursday, July 14, 4-5 p.m. It will continue until 6 p.m. online. Listeners may call 800-223-9797 to be part of the conversation.

KNRJ/101.1 The BEAT in Phoenix has added The Breakfast Club to its weekday morning lineup, effective Monday, July 11. The show starring DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God will now be heard in the 2:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. timeslot.

July 25 is the debut date. Weinstein will be hosting weekdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The goal is to deliver provocative talk on D.C. sports, led by a Silver Spring, MD, native. Weinstein (@RealBramW) returns to the nation’s capital after anchoring at ESPN since 2008, including as a SportsCenter host from 2010 to 2015.

After a 12-hour radiothon, the station really could shout “hallelujah!” with the final count raised for the Sickle Cell Foundation tallying $10,600. The radiothon was hosted by popular personalities Connie Bryant and Yvette Bullard-Dillard. This was the 28th year for the annual fundraiser.

Put it in your iPhone for 10:00 a.m. CT. With registration for the Country Radio Seminar opening Tuesday, you can get the best rate on registration: $492. But that rate will only be available to a limited number of first-come, first-served registrants. Registrations will be available for purchase at www.CountryRadioSeminar.com.

Radio Ink is proud to announce that the 2016 recipient of its Lifetime Leadership award is Cathy Hughes, Founder and Chairperson of Radio One. An in- depth profile of Ms. Hughes and her professional accomplishments will be featured in our upcoming 40 Most Powerful People in Radio issue, which will be out on July 25.

When we all woke up on Friday to the horrific events in Dallas, many of us grabbed the first digital device we could find to tune into a local radio station to get the best coverage directly from that city. Cumulus owned WBAP was in a local talk show monitoring the protests when the sniper story broke. We spoke to WBAP Program Director Tyler Cox this weekend. He detailed how WBAP covered the event when it broke and in the days that followed.