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iHeartMedia Louisville announced Thursday that, after 18 years with NewsRadio 840 WHAS, Program Director Kelly Carls, will retire in August. Carls joined WHAS in April of 1998 as the Program Director.

WXZZ Lexington PD and Morning Driver Anthony “Twitch” Longo becomes Operations Manager for Cumulus' five-station cluster in that market. Longo has been with WXZZ for 12 years hosting mornings.

Ted Schilowitz, futurist at 20th Century Fox and Chief Creative Officer at Barco, will speak at the NAB Show Technology Luncheon, Wednesday, April 20, in Las Vegas.

89.3 WFPL News, Louisville, has made two new hires in its newsroom. Jonese Franklin (pictured) will join the newsroom as Digital Editor, where she will oversee WFPL’s digital news and social media operations. WFPL has also hired Roxanne L. Scott as Economy Reporter, a new area of focus for the newsroom.

WSOU inducted Bernie Wagenblast ’78 and Bob Picozzi ’72 into its Hall of Fame and presented a new award – the WSOU Distinguished Young Alumna – to Stephanie Wightman ‘08. Honorees will be inducted on Thursday April 14. Ceremonies will be held in the fourth floor atrium of Seton Hall University’s Jubilee Hall at 7 p.m.

Daniel Anstandig's Futuri Media has acquired StreamOn, a company that specializes in streaming, podcasting, and social media for radio. StreamOn co-founder Andrew Snook becomes VP of Streaming Systems at Futuri. The terms of the deal were not announced.

iHeartMedia announced Thursday the full line-up for its Daytime Village at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival. The Daytime Village will return to the Las Vegas Village across from the Luxor Hotel and Casino on Saturday, September 24, ­ between the two nights of the sixth annual iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on September 23 and 24.

On Wednesday, iHeartMedia and a group of its bondholders involved in litigation in the State District Court in Bexar County, Texas, agreed to extend the existing temporary restraining order until a May 16 trial. Here was iHeartMedia's reaction to that ruling...

Bloomberg reports iHeartMedia debtholder Bluejay Securities, an affiliate of Elliott Management Corp., is one of the debtholders challenging iHeart's transfer of 100,000 shares of Clear Channel Outdoor to Broader Media. iHeart alleges, according to Bloomerg, that Bluejay would "reap a financial windfall" if creditors can push iHeart into default because it bought short-term credit default swaps.

iHeartMedia's Thea Mitchem is kicking you-know-what and taking names in a world dominated by men: programming radio stations. Mitchem is iHeart's Executive Vice President of Programming for the Northeast Division, and Program Director for the influential Power 105.1 in New York City. She's been in radio for 21 years, programming for 15. Mitchem will appear on Radio Ink's 2016 Best Program Directors in America list, which comes out on May 9.