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iHeartmedia's former Mid-Atlantic Region, which consisted of the Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Virginia markets, will be realigned. The DC and Baltimore markets become the new Washington, DC Region and the Virginia markets join the Carolina Region to form the Virginia-Carolina Region. Preacher and Carwile will take new roles.

She's a legendary Bay Area personality and she'll soon be bringing her talents to Entercom's KBLX-FM in San Francisco. Miranda Wilson will host the "Sunday Morning Inspiration" show from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

iHeartRadio President Darren Davis said of the milestone, “We know our users want to listen to our broad range of content on the device of their choice -- and we also know they want to enjoy amazing stories that have emerged from the recent podcast boom or hear their hometown DJ wherever they travel. For those reasons and more, people continue to embrace iHeartRadio, and it’s reflected in the continued rapid growth of our registered user base.”

Those three new members are: iHeartMedia Executive VP of Programming Tony Coles (pictured), Cumulus Chicago Market Manager Peter Bowen and Director of Radio at the National Association of Broadcasters Melek Demir.

105.3 HOT FM has added Jackie Green to its on-air team where she will host afternoon drive. Her show will replace Afternoons with Kiki starting Monday, August 22, 2016.

Cumulus has appointed 35-year Youngstown market radio veteran Bill Kelly as VP/Market Manager for its eight-station cluster in Youngstown, OH. He'll begin October 3rd and he replaces Brad Marshall who was promoted to that position two years ago and has now left the company.

Townsquare CEO Steven Price's philosophy has always been to diversify. Townsquare uses the power of radio to promote, execute and drive attendance to local concerts, fun runs, craft beer festivals and other events.

The Madison Square Garden Company takes about a 12 percent common equity stake in Townsquare. MSG purchased 3.2 million shares of GE Capital's Class C Common Stock. Townsquare did not receive any proceeds from this transaction. Townsquare CEO Steven Price is also purchasing 50,000 shares of GE Capital’s Class C Common Stock.

It happens on every news site that allows comments. What the news organization hoped would be a civil conversation about a story winds up devolving into name calling and negativity that have nothing even to do with the story posted.

It appears there's a glitch in the state requiring every political ad on the radio to include the tag about who paid for the ad. Of course, as most managers know, the FCC will frown upon you if that isn't done.