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Alpha Media’s G100 Savannah-Hilton Head has launched as “The Throwback Station!” and playing favorite throwbacks like the Notorious B.I.G., Snoop, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, and many more. Savannah favorites Mia Amini will host middays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Mark “Shark” Ediss takes afternoons from 2 to 7 p.m. The station was previously Rhythmic CHR WXYY (Y100).

Saga has completed the sale of a tower in Norfolk, Virginia, WAFX-FM, to SBA Communications, based in Boca Raton.

Other than the four companies participating in the announced new measurement service with Shazam, not many, if any, other radio companies knew about it. iHeartMedia, Cumulus, Entercom, and Cox say they will be a part of the service. According to BIA/Kelsey those four companies control about 1,500 stations across the country. We know for sure that Hubbard, Greater Media, Alpha Media, Beasley, Emmis, Connoiseur, and others, were not contacted about the new service and were caught off guard when they saw the announcement Thursday.

There are several radio executives we spoke to who believe this new measurement system was meant as "a poke in the eye" to Nielsen as the industry grows more and more frustrated with the ratings firm being unable to come up with a final product that measures both over-the-air listening and online listening.

NextRadio recently executed a pilot interactive radio campaign with Starwood's Aloft Hotels. The campaign aired April 4-30 and included 68 stations in: Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. Here are the results

The press release did not give many details about how the new Shazam measurement technology would work, or how Shazam would measure a radio station signal. So we reached out to Shazam's Chief Revenue Officer Greg Glenday to try to get you more details.

Sports Radio 104.3 The Fan (KKFN-FM) is moving 37-year radio veteran Sandy Clough to the 10 a.m.-12 p.m. timeslot.

Ever heard a guy say to one of his buddies something like: “You run like a girl”? Well, that whole gender put-down has become big radio in Atlanta. Melissa Carter of B98.5 (WSB-FM/Atlanta) was featured on HLN’s The Daily Share on July 20 regarding the Tad & Melissa Show’s segment “Your Man ____ Like a Girl” discussing the phrase “’Like a girl’…is it hurtful or harmless?”

Terry Fahy, VP/GM of Salem Media Group Los Angeles, has been in broadcasting for 38 years. In October 2014, Fahy was appointed VP of Operations for Salem Media Group’s West Coast markets: Seattle, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Ventura. It seems fitting, then, that Fahy is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors for the California Broadcasters Association.

Veteran sales executives Chris Saglian and Ryan McCrohan (pictured) have been named the new co-GSM's for Cumulus in Buffalo. Saglian joins Cumulus from Entercom-Rochester, where he was LSM. McCrohan’s new gig is a promotion in Buffalo, where he most recently served as LSM, after holding a variety of positions for the station cluster over the past 16 years.