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Diane Goff, who has worked at the NAB for nearly 47 years, will retire at the end of this month. Goff, who is NAB's payroll and accounts payable manager, joined the NAB finance department on April 14, 1969, in an administrative role making $5,000 a year.

That's what WLW (Cincinnati) talk-show host Bill Cunningham said on his WLW afternoon show. Part-time host Lisa Wells faces charges of drug possession and driving while impaired after being pulled over on January 25. Cunningham wanted to point out that Wells was not on heroin or cocaine, according to WCPO.

Elvis Duran, host of Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, will host the 2016 Golden Mike Award, February 29 in New York City. iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman will be honored.

Zidarevich gets the newly created position of VP of West Coast Operations for Premiere Networks. In her previous role as VP of Network Operations for FOX Sports Radio, Zidarevich was responsible for overseeing the operations of FSR’s 24/7 lineup, as well as managing studio operations and program staffing needs for Premiere in L.A. Her expanded role will now include all West Coast programming operations for Premiere.

CBS Sports Radio 650 and SportsRadio 610 in Houston have signed a multi-year deal to be the official radio partner for the Major League Soccer Club, the Houston Dynamo. Games will air on SportsRadio 610. CBS Sports Radio 650 will broadcast a half-hour pregame and ancillary programming such as The Players Show and The Coaches Show, both of which will also be broadcast on KKHH 95.7 HD-3.

It's a new five-year deal between iHeartmedia Memphis stations WEGR-FM 102.7 "ROCK 103" and WREC-AM 600, Memphis Athletics, and the Learfield's Tiger Sports Network.

The Chicagoland Radio and Media Blog has the details about Lake's firing which took place late yesterday. The blog states no reason was given, although it appears to be for budgetary reasons. Lake had been with WLS-FM since 2008. Last night, Lake took to his Facebook page with the news...

Media Monitors released its update on the primary elections that will take place in South Carolina this Saturday for the Republicans and next Saturday for the Democrats. Media Monitors has been tracking the political radio ads running in Greenville-Spartanburg, Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina. All the data was from January 1st to February 14th.

Broadcast Attorney David Oxenford takes a swing at this one as Ted Cruz demands TV stations pull PAC ads he says distort his voting record on immigration issues. Cruz says it's a violation of a station's FCC obligations to operate in the public interest to continue to run the ads. Oxenford details what a station can and cannot do in his latest blog posting.