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CMT and iHeartMedia announced Monday that iHeartCountry will once again serve as the official radio partner of the fan-voted 2016 CMT Music Awards, simulcasting the live show from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, June 8, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, across more than 115 iHeartCountry music radio stations.

Bruce Collins is taking up the role of Talk Operations Manager over Alpha Media Portland’s KXL, KXTG, KUFO, and Radio Northwest Network. Most recently, Collins served as News/Talk/Sports Format Captain for iHeart Media, as well as a Program Director.

Veteran programmer Mike Love will oversee the 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm syndicated daypart show currently called The Doug Banks Radio Show. Most recently, Love was Urban Sr. Director of Programming and Distribution for Cumulus. He has also programmed or been on the air at WBLS-FM, New York; WPGC-FM, Washington, DC; and KMJMFM St. Louis.

Yes, that Martha Quinn, of MTV fame. iHeartMedia is rebranding KOSF-FM, its 80s station in San Francisco, renaming it "iHeart80s," which is what the company calls its iHeartRadio 80s station. The station was called "BIG 103.7, San Francisco’s Hits of the ‘80s & More." Quinn will host morning drive and the station launched with eight days of commercial-free programming.

Four of the top 11 companies on the Media Monitors weekly chart are in the Auto Parts category. Last week, AutoZone was 7th, airing 22,263 spots on radio stations all across America. O'Reilly was 9th (18,930), NAPA was 10th (18,427), and Advance was 11th (18,029). The Home Depot took the top spot again (71,630) followed by GEICO (41,638) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (31,360).

Over the weekend, WTOP was honored with eight Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards, including an Outstanding Website award for WTOP.com. Director of News and Programming Mike McMearty said, “We have such a great team here at WTOP and are so thrilled to be able to share in these successes together." Here's the long list of awards the station took home...

At the New York Associated Press Association Awards banquet this past weekend, WXXI Radio won 1st Place in the Spot News category for coverage of shootings that took place in Rochester back in 2015.

Greg Guy of Patrick Communications fills us in on this Educational Media Foundation purchase. The station, WFRW-FM in market #222, is being sold by Christian Radio Friends to EMF for $300,000 cash.

Susan Forbes is hired back by Beasley as Event Producer for WJBR-FM in Wilmington. Forbes was Promotions Director for WJBR in 2012.

Pandora has announced a partnership with Music Reports, which is a platform to manage mechanical licensing and royalty administration. Pandora will use Music Reports for its upcoming interactive streaming service.