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Pictured here with WFLA-FM PD Jim Poling and GSM Mark Kanak, is Dave Ramsey who hosted his Smart Conference to a packed crowd in Orlando, Saturday.

Scripps owned WTMJ has made several programming changes at its heritage news station in Milwaukee. Eric Brooks (pictured) gets promoted to the position of Director, Programming & News and Erin Dismeier is also promoted, to Executive Producer of WTMJ Programming.

Elroy Smith will occupy a newly created position of Operations Manager and PD for KBLX-FM and KRBQ-FM as part of an Entercom reorganization in that market. Stacy Cunningham and Trevor Simpson are out as a result of the change.

Veteran hip-hop icon YoYo is the newest addition to the nationally syndicated Café Mocha Radio. As the show moves into its sixth year, the Ice Cube protégé has signed on to be a permanent co-host of the top-rated weekend show targeting women.

102.1 The Edge KDGE-FM, Dallas/Fort Worth, announced Friday that longtime Texas radio host Atom Smasher will take over mornings on The Edge with The Atom Smasher Show, beginning Monday, May 2, 2016.

CBS Sports Radio and Westwood One today announced the launch of a new weekly podcast featuring CBS Sports Radio personality Doug Gottlieb, host of The Doug Gottlieb Show.

A memorial service will be held for syndicated host Doug Banks tomorrow at Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral in Dallas. Banks died Monday of complications from diabetes. The New Pittsburgh Courrier reports that Banks lost a toe and an eye to the disease and was on dialysis. He continued to work though, making an appearance in Chicago the day before he died, at the Black Women’s Expo. Banks was 57.

After four years away, Frank Ski is back in Atlanta. Ski is returning to CBS's V-103 April 23 and will host shows Saturdays from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and Sundays from 7 p.m.-11 p.m.

Broadcast attorney David Oxenford brilliantly details the impact the pre-1972 sound recordings issue might have on broadcasters. The issue is back after the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit deferred its consideration of an appeal of a District Court’s decision that New York law included a public performance right for pre-1972 sound recordings.

(By Matt Sunshine) Allow me to describe a scenario that many salespeople find themselves in every day where I find sellers can get easily trapped. The client or prospect asks a simple question like, “Why should I buy your product or service?”