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Everyone loves to be involved with a winning team. Not so much the other way around. And, according to the Milwaukee Business Journal, Scripps owned WTMJ in Milwaukee is seeing softness from advertisers because it looks as if the Milwaukee Brewers are on their way to another losing season. And baseball ad revenue is very important to WTMJ

Christina Albee has been named Chief Marketing Officer at the company. Albee returns to Cumulus from Flipboard, where she had been Head of Sales Marketing. She previously held sales marketing positions at Condé Nast, Time, and Westwood One.

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host and best-selling author, Dave Ramsey, hosted his Smart Conference in Los Angeles on Saturday, at The Shrine Auditorium. Ramsey combined forces with iHeart's "The Patriot KEIB 1150 AM" to promote the event.

This year's Radio show, co-produced by the NAB and RAB, will be held in Nashville this September so the Radio Week proclamation comes from Nashville Mayor Megan Barry. The proclamation, which you can read HERE, says "to recognize the importance of radio broadcasting to Music City's creative and economic well-being and to welcome the 2016 Radio Show to Nashville."

iHeartMedia has announced that Bree Wagner has been named the Assistant Program Director and Music Director for KASE 101 and 98.1 KVET, and will assume midday duties at 98.1 KVET in Austin, effective immediately. Wagner takes on these new duties in addition to her current role of Assistant Program Director and Music Director for San Antonio’s KAJA and KRPT, and midday host at KAJA.

Milwaukee stations 620 WTMJ and 94.5 KTI COUNTRY combined to win 11 awards from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association on Saturday night. The awards included the coveted News & Talk Station of the Year for WTMJ, and Best Morning Show for Jake & Tanner on 94.5 KTI COUNTRY.

810 & 103.1 WGY and 99.5 The River -- both in Albany, NY -- announced Friday that the 18th annual Cares for Kids Radiothon raised more than $280,000 for the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center. The 25-hour live broadcast took place May 5 and 6.

iHeartMedia San Diego, the flagship radio broadcaster for the San Diego Chargers Radio Network, announced today that Nick Hardwick will be the new play-by-play color analyst for the Chargers, starting with the 2016-17 NFL season.

Alpha Media, Fredericksburg, VA announced that they have raised $1,112,000 for local charities. WFLS, WNTX, WVBX, and WWUZ teamed up with the Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region for a 36-hour fundraiser. The Foundation's goal is to advance local philanthropy.

Scripps Radio Tulsa has hired Steve Hunter as the new operations manager for the station cluster, including KVOO, KHTT, KXBL, KBEZ, and KFAQ, effective immediately. Hunter spent the past 22 years in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the operations manager for Cox Media Group.