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SummitMedia's Birmingham cluster held a fundraiser this week to help with funeral expenses for the family of 4-year-old Rodriquez Ferguson (pictured) who was shot and killed on his grandmother's porch in Ensley, AL.

The nationally syndicated talk radio show is kicking off their “Big Thank You” campaign this fall. The annual effort aims to provide every active service member deployed outside the United States with a handwritten Thank You letter on Thanksgiving Day.

iHeartMedia’s annual Jingle Ball tour is taking shape for its cross-country jaunt to celebrate the holiday season. The full artist line-up will be available October 11.

VOLUME -- a new 24/7 music talk channel on SiriusXM -- will feature a mix of live daily shows, music news, weekly specialty shows, in-depth documentaries, special performances, a music trivia- game show, and more. The launch is set for October 17 at 7 a.m.

The name of the new podcast is Tagline. It will air twice a month. The goal of Tagline is to give listeners an insider’s perspective on what the world that influences pop culture is about.

TechCrunch reports music sales are estimated at nearly $3 billion per year in Japan which makes it the world’s second largest market. And streamers like Spotify want in on that.

We were introduced to Carlos Navarro by 2016 Radio Wayne finalist WIP/Philadelphia Sales Manager Vince Gambino. Navarro is the VP of marketing for South Jersey Industries, a publicly traded energy company based in New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia.

Last week at the Radio Show in Nashville, while Gordon Borrell was giving radio executives a realty check about how their advertisers were turning more and more to Facebook to advertise, he mentioned the name Vince Benedetto. Vince (pictured here) is the President and CEO of the Bold Gold Media Group, which owns stations in New York and Pennsylvania.

USRN fills us in on the news about the veteran morning team. iHeart Media is adding Lex & Terry to 97.3 Planet Radio. Lex Staley and Terry Jaymes became a “team” in Jacksonville in 1992.

Entercom Los Angeles’ station 100.3 The Sound KSWD-FM announced that legendary rock radio personality Cynthia Fox will now host PM Drive. The Los Angeles native began her career at the age of 18 at the iconic KMET-FM “The Mighty Met” in the 1970s.