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ABC Radio will provide three one-hour specials during Memorial Day Weekend in addition to the previously announced Somewhere on the Road: ABC Radio’s Country Summer Tour Roundup. The following programs will be available: Tribute to the Troops 2016, Summer Survival Guide 2016, and Return of the Summer Sequels.

WJR-AM/News Talk 760 in Detroit took the top prize as Station of the Year from The Michigan Association of Broadcasters. WJR was also honored by MAB with 14 Best in Category and nine Merit Awards.

91.9/91.5 and 88.5 The Family is pleased to announce the final results of their 24th annual “Help for the Homeless” hygiene drive. More than $300,000 dollars’ worth of new hygiene and cleaning products were donated to 82 local crisis programs in 15 communities in their listening areas.

Beasley Media Group confirmed Tuesday that Jeff Zito is moving up the Gulf Coast from his position as Program Director at Fort Myers station WRXK/K-ROCK to begin his new PD role at Tampa’s WBRN/98.7 NO RULES ROCK. He will start working as WBRN’s Program Director, on Monday, June 20.

Second City Works and WGN Radio are excited to announce the launch of Getting to Yes, And, an all-new weekly podcast hosted by Kelly Leonard. Episodes are now available on iTunes and WGNPlus.com and a new episode will be posted every Tuesday at 7 a.m. The podcast features interviews with visionaries, authors, and leaders who operate at the intersection of creativity and commerce.

KNBR Ops Manager Lee Hammer said, “We’re about to re-launch KNBR 1050, and we’re excited to have Jeremiah join our programming team to lead this effort. He'll also be working closely with me on new strategic programming initiatives at KNBR 680, plus helping to expand our growing social media platforms.”

(By Deborah Parenti) Every year, Radio Ink salutes America’s best program directors. It’s a major undertak­ing, headed by Editor-in-Chief Ed Ryan and a board of dedicated programming professionals. For weeks, they cull through and carefully evaluate hundreds of nominations, finally determining the 50 who are “the cream of the crop.” I, however, have a very important question to ask...

Our conversation with Adams Radio President Ron Stone sure was lively yesterday, so in case you missed it, we encourage you to read what Stone had to say about Digital as well as all the comments that followed. Stone is part of the upcoming Independent Warrior Special Report in the May 23 issue of Radio Ink Magazine.

Nielsen does not want radio stations learning the identity of its PPM panel participants. They are crystal clear on that. A contest Cumulus Atlanta Top 40 station WWWQ ran was leaning in that direction and Nielsen flagged the station for doing so. Nielsen notified subscribers about the incident under the heading "Ratings Bias/Ratings Distortion." Here are the details...