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Peru and Mexico are the latest countries to offer NextRadio, joining the United States and Canada. Partnering with the Ambassadors Office in Peru, NextRadio hosted a promotional event on August 10, officially announcing the launch of NextRadio in Peru. The event included 75 guests from all major broadcasters, large advertising agencies, and dignitaries from Peru.

Todd Johnson is an experienced radio and TV sales leader, and as of Monday he will be the new local sales manager for Scripps radio in Wichita. Johnson will be responsible for generating local business for KFDI-FM, T95 (KICT-FM), The Fox (KFXJ-FM), Radio Lobo (KYQQ-FM), and Classic Country 1070 (KFTI-AM).

Karen Vaughn moves from Indianapolis to Philadelphia within the Radio One family. As of September 19, she'll be the Operations Manager for WRNB-FM Old School, WPPZ-FM PRAISE, and WPHI-FM BOOM.

Cumulus lands Emmy Award-winning sportscaster and NBC NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya as co-host of the morning show on KQRS-FM in Minneapolis where she'll join longtime morning man Tom Barnard.

Rick Hendrick (pictured) is promoted to Operations Manager at Cumulus' six-station cluster in Montgomery. He'll hold on to his PD responsibilities at WXFX.

Ryan Gibbons joins Entercom's CHR KISS-FM in Milwaukee as on-air/producer for Riggs and Alley in Morning Drive. Gibbons comes from CBS Radio's KZOK-FM in Seattle where he was on-air/producer for the Danny Bonaduce Show.

Tennessee Titans’ tight end Delanie Walker will join the Midday 180 Team for a live one-hour show beginning Tuesday, September 13, 2016, from 1-2 p.m. CST. Walker joins broadcaster Chad Withrow, Jonathan Hutton, and Paul Kuharsky for the weekly Delanie Walker Show with a live studio audience in the 104.5 The Zone Music Performance Studio.

In an investor presentation Wednesday, Beasley Media Group detailed how it plans to save nearly $8 million in cost synergies by detailing where those savings will come from as a result of its purchase of Greater Media. The company says the $7.9 million in annual cost savings will "be driven primarily by headcount as well as compensation/contract expense reductions." Here's how Beasley plans to make those reductions in each of the Greater Media markets.

Tony Denton is the new Market Manager for Alpha's cluster in Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville. For nine years Denton was D.O.S. in that market. He was most recently a Market Manager for Curtis.

Dave Fuller is the new afternoon drive host at Detroit's NASH-FM WDRQ. Fuller hosted early afternoons on WDRQ from 1999-2004 before returning to the station in a part-time/swing capacity in May. A Detroit native, Fuller has also worked on the air at WOMC/WKQI in Detroit and in Toledo, Seattle, and Fort Myers.