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The NBA's Los Angeles Clippers and iHeartMedia have signed a new deal to bring the team over to AM 570 LA Sports/KLAC. The first game to be broadcast on the station will be Saturday night. The Clippers had been on KFWB-AM (980) since 2009 but have been looking for a new radio partner since the station changed to a foreign-language format last month. Clippers games will also be heard on The Patriot, KEIB AM 1150, when there are conflicts with Dodgers baseball.

WFLS has raised $136,089 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with a two-day radiothon. The station has raised $727,404 since 2011. The three-day fundraising event kicked off with the radiothon on March 10 and 11, and was hosted by Steve Waters and Jessica Cash from the 93.3 WFLS Morning Show.

Greg Janoff has returned to CBS Radio in New York as Director, News Sales. In this new role, he will oversee all sales for both 1010 WINS and WCBS Newsradio 880. Janoff last worked in sales management at 1010 WINS back in 2009 before heading off to work at My Damn Channel. He also worked for Randy Michaels at Merlin Media for about two years before joining Townsquare as Regional Vice President for the past three years.

Alpha Media Portland, OR, announced that MoJoe Roberts will become the Program Director and afternoon host for 98.7 The Bull. A product of the great Northwest, Roberts has held various programming and on-air roles over the past two decades.

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After a five-day stunt, Hubbard has flipped it's "Modern Music" station (KLCK-FM) in Seattle to Rock and will feature artists such as AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Van Halen, Nirvana, and Guns ‘N Roses. Entercom has a Classic Rock (KISW) and Alternative Rocker (KNDD) in the market, and CBS also has a Classic Rocker (KZOK) in Seattle. Hubbard will kick off the new KVRQ-FM 98-9 with 12,000 songs in a row.

Lance Tidwell is the new Cluster Operations Manager for Cumulus' seven-station cluster and Chiefs Radio Network in Kansas City. He'll also program KCMO Talk Radio 710/103.7. Tidwell was SVPP for iHeartMedia in San Antonio and Tucson. Prior to that he was PD for Clear Channel’s WWYZ-FM in Hartford/New Haven.

Veteran investigative reporter Kate Howard, has been hired by WFPL’s Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (KyCIR). She will begin her position on April 11, 2016. Howard worked as a news reporter for nearly five years at The Tennessean, covering crime, courts and transportation.

Johnny Maze is the new PD for Adams Radio Group's WZBH “The Beach” and WGBG “Big Classic Rock” in Salisbury-Ocean City. Maze will also host the PM Drive shift on WGBG.