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In 2015, our top five Program Directors were Chris Conley from WLTW at #1, WCBS-FM's Jim Ryan at #2, Kevin Weatherly at KROQ in Los Angeles in the third position, WBLS' Skip Dillard at #4, and WBZ/WZLX Boston PD Mike Thomas. Who will be the best in the programming department this year? Submit your detailed nomination HERE. YOUR DEADLINE TO NOMINATE IS TODAY.

Julio Liberman's radio career began in the 1960s, when he and his brothers purchased KLVE in Los Angeles and flipped the format to become the first Spanish-language FM in the city, and the second in the United States. In 2013, Mr. Liberman received Radio Ink’s Lifetime Leadership Award, the highest honor of the Medallas de Cortez Awards. Julio Liberman is the father of Entravision's COO Jeff Liberman. He was 87.

The name of the new podcast from WTOP is Target USA and it focuses on the threats facing America. The podcast is reported and produced by WTOP National Security Correspondent JJ Green.

Seems fitting. Tommy Chong, best known as one-half of the pot-smoking comedy duo “Cheech and Chong,” is now hosting a podcast called The Tommy Chong Podcast on CannabisRadio.com. New episodes of podcast air every Wednesday at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.

Greg Mozingo is the new program director for KVOO and KXBL, two Tulsa, Oklahoma, radio stations operated by The E.W. Scripps. He begins his new role on March 14. Mozingo comes to Tulsa from St. Louis where he was program director for the past 13 years at WIL-FM.

Minnesota Public Media news has named Nancy Cassutt as executive director, MPR News and Programming. She replaces interim news lead Mike Reszler, who stepped in last summer when Chris Worthington, the former managing director of news.

Those are the words of Ad Agency Executives Blair Overesch (pictured) and Jeff Chase. Overesch is the Media Director and Chase is the Creative Director at Walz Tetrick Advertising in Kansas City . Their clients include the World Champion Kansas City Royals and Dairy Queen. In our latest podcast, Chase and Overesch, who are big proponents of radio, say they would be willing to pay more if their clients didn't get lost in a long pod of horrible-sounding commercials. It's just one of the topics we discuss in the podcast, however it is the hot topic of the week. LISTEN HERE

In this day and age of limited staffs, budget cuts, and failing all-news stations, 1010 WINS in New York City continues to do outstanding work. This most recent piece of news we're going to detail is especially strong, it's something only a handful of radio news operations would even attempt. It includes excellent reporting with very detailed news broadcasts, tackling an issue that has the local community by the jugular.

Whether you're a small market AM operator or you run a Class A, your hope is that the FCC's plan to revitalize the band will improve the quality of the sound the band spits out to your listeners. Over the years, The AM band has become sensitive to every product we plug in the wall giving it added buzz, crackles and other assorted sounds that instantly turn off the listener now living in a digitally clear world.

Norm Winer was PD for CBS Radio's WXRT-FM since 1979. He was recently given the title of Director of WXRT Music Initiatives & Special Programming. On Wednesday he announced, after 36 years at the same station, he's leaving.