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According to The Baltimore Sun Mary Beth Marsden is leaving WBAL radio after almost five years of anchoring its afternoon drivetime newscast. Marsden has lived and worked in Baltimore for more than 25 years.

(By Dan Franks) In last week’s Infinite Dial 2016 live webinar, Edison Research and Triton Digital joined forces to present their most recent study of consumer behaviors around media and technology in America. They had a special focus on the consumption of audio, which included a dedicated section on podcasts.

Ron Fried (pictured left) is a senior account manager with Connoisseur Media on Long Island, and one of his best accounts is TD Bank. It’s an account Fried has had for 11 years, and that’s due in large part to the relationship and trust he’s built with the bank’s vice president of marketing, Eric Fishon (pictured right).

He hopes he doesn't have to according to a story in Radaronline. Todd Clem (Bubba The Love Sponge) is not only the target of a Nielsen lawsuit for alleged ratings tampering, he's part of the Hulk Hogan $100 million Gawker lawsuit. And he does not want to testify in the Hogan case.

(By Ryan Wrecker) If traditional radio held the office of president, streaming would be the vice president, and podcasting would be the speaker of the house. Over the past decade we’ve started to move from a digital democracy to a more direct democracy.

Cox Media Group Orlando has named Evelyn Pacheco as its new Director of Sales. In this role, Pacheco will lead the sales organization of CMG Orlando’s top-performing radio and digital brands (WCFB, WCFB-HD2, WDBO, WMMO, WPYO, WWKA, and ESPN).

iHeartMedia Louisville announced Friday it has promoted Kevin Hughes (pictured) to Senior Vice President of Sales and Michael Jordan to Senior Vice President of Programming, effective immediately. Both positions will oversee iHeartMedia’s Kentucky-Indiana region and will be based out of Louisville.

In a company as big as Cumulus, you rarely hear the CEO single out one on-air employee, but that's exactly what Berner did when she detailed just how much the firing of Jack Diamond cost the company. That firing was undone as Berner explained.

Cumulus CEO Mary Berner has now been on the job for five months and she put her cards on the table yesterday, laying out her entire plan to turn around the company. Berner's had a chance to look under the hood in more detail and, as they say, the baby is ugly. However, Berner says given time, Cumulus has the assets to be one of the winners in the radio industry. Thursday afternoon, she detailed operational and cultural changes she hopes will steady the Cumulus ship. The big question is does she have enough time to execute her plan.

Berner said it was normal operating procedure for the prior Cumulus administration to take weeks to answer a request from a local market, if they got back to them at all. Now, Berner says the company has instituted a new process and the feedback is positive.