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The 3rd Annual Y100 St. Jude Jam features five artists, each one with a great story, on April 19th at 7pm at the Meyer Theatre in downtown Green Bay.

AE's Kelwynn Napoleon and Rachel Adams are now LSMs for Cumulus in New Orleans where the company has four stations. Napoleon (pictured) joined Cumulus-New Orleans seven years ago as an AE. Adams joins Cumulus from Entercom-New Orleans, where she was the National Director of eCommerce and Digital Sales.

Tony Tilford is the new Director of Rock Programming for iHeartMedia's Kentucky-Indiana region. He'll begin his new duties May 1, which will include overseeing WQMF-FM and WTFX-FM in Louisville. Tilford most recently served as Regional SVP of Programming for iHeartMedia’s Southwest Ohio-Indiana region.

Alpha Media, Watertown, SD, has held its 16th Annual Children’s Miracle Network Radiothon April 14 and 15 and raised an impressive $81,073.

Tanner Kloven is the new midday host on CBS Radio's KVIL in Dallas. Kloven replaces Sybil Summers, who began co-hosting 103.7 KVIL’s More Music Mornings with Kannon on April 1.

Global Security Systems announced at the NAB Show in Las Vegas that the NextRadio app team will review ways to interconnect with GSS’s ALERT FM emergency notification system to provide users with federal, state, and/or local information during the event of a man-made or natural disaster. This new feature is scheduled to be available to NextRadio users later this year.

That's probably not news to you if you're a sales manager putting the hours in at your station or cluster. SalesFuel released its 7th annual “State of Media Sales” survey Tuesday which was conducted in January and February and included 1,078 media sales managers, executive managers, and sales representatives about their perceptions of the sales industry. 127 of the respondents were from radio industry. Here's what the survey turned up...

Denise Bohn Stewart was co-host of the Denise & Johnny in the Morning show on Midwest Family's 98.3 The Coast in Central Michigan. Stewart and her husband were both found dead in their home Tuesday. The local media is reporting that the incident was a murder-suicide. Stewart, who was 45, was apparently killed by her 51-year-old husband Eric Stewart. He then apparently killed himself.

At a luncheon on Tuesday, The National Association of Broadcasters announced the 10 recipients of the 29th Annual Crystal Radio Awards. CBS took home three of those 10, KNX-AM in L.A., WCCO-AM in Minneapolis, and WWJ-AM in Detroit. The Crystal Award recognizes radio stations for their outstanding year-round commitment to community service. Here is a complete listing of this year's winners.

Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, hosts of ESPN Radio’s weekday morning show Mike & Mike, were inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame Tuesday in Las Vegas.