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My Home Team Media promotes Jessica Banister to run its Clovis, New Mexico cluster. My Home Team president Susan Lucchesi said, "We are excited to have someone of Jessica’s caliber grow with our company and move up to our management team. Her commitment to excellence, diligent attention to detail, and knowledge/use of digital and social media makes her an extremely valuable addition to our company."

On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced ASCAP agreed to pay $1.75 million and reform some of its policies to settle allegations ASCAP violated a court-ordered consent decree designed to prevent anticompetitive effects arising from its collective licensing of music performance rights.

Program directors have enormous responsibilities these days. They must produce the best content in all of audio, because the competition for ears has never been greater. They have to find and teach and massage new local talent. And they surely must help produce a product the sales department can successfully sell so that fire-breathing GM can be calm, cool, and collected while sending that nice big piece of the cash-flow action back to corporate.

Jon Latzer's previous experience includes Digital Sales and Management Executive with CBS Digital Media, TuneIn, and Rovi. He was also a GSM with CBS and Clear Channel and a National Sales Manager with Katz.

Coastal Broadcasting has inked Bob Stei to host this summer’s nightly broadcast from the Boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ, for Hot AC 98.7 The Coast (WCZT). Stei will also fill in when needed at the Coast and sister Modern Rocker WJSE, and he’ll continue to host weekends/swing at Townsquare Classic Rock 105.7 The Hawk (WCHR-FM) Ocean/Monmouth, NJ.

(By Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads) Big things happen when you least expect them. It was the summer of 1974, I had been fired from Y100, and I was living with my parents. One day my friends Charlie Willer (the man who got me into radio) and John Garrett decided to take a road trip to Chicago from Fort Wayne. Our goal was to meet the famous voice behind The Secret Adventures of the Tooth Fairy and Chickenman.

(By Gabriel Barnes) When looking to pinpoint an audience based on geography, the terms "geo-fencing" or "geo-targeting" are often used. These terms are often incorrectly used interchangeably, creating confusion, so let’s clarify what they mean.

Billboard writer Tom Roland worked his way into John Shomby's new office in Nashville for an up close and personal interview with the Nash Network's new director of programming. Shomby took the job with Cumulus after spending 13 years as Dave Paulus' right hand man with Max Media in Norfolk-Virginia Beach, where he was director of programming for five stations. Shomby tells Roland, “It’s a brand-new Cumulus. It really focuses on the people, and that’s a real important draw for me.” Check out the full profile on Shomby HERE.