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Averaging more than 2 million downloads per week, The Dave Ramsey Show has been recognized by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 Podcasts on iTunes.

Dave Pugh is the new Senior VP/Market Manager and Director of Sales for the cluster of CBS stations in Phoenix, which includes KMLE-FM (Country), KOOL-FM (Classic Hits), and KZON-FM (Top 40). Pugh succeeds Tim Pohlman, who was recently appointed Senior Vice President and Market Manager of the division’s stations in Chicago.

WCKG is opening up their airwaves to new programs with a nationwide talent search. Operations Manager John Spataro is calling all business-oriented content creators to apply at WCKG.com to see if they have what it takes to be a major market radio host.

The app allows radio and TV station sales executives to receive next-business-day service on unlimited customized sales research presented via Futuri’s new TopLine mobile app and desktop tool.

Tad Lemire will join Melissa Carter on B98.5 in Atlanta. Lemire, formerly on CMG Tulsa’s Mix 96, will be half of new Tad & Melissa Show weekday mornings 5 to 9 a.m. beginning Feb 1.

Beasley Media Group has announced a pair of staff upgrades in Tampa Bay. Ted Cannarozzi has been named Q105’s program director and WQYK’s Promotions Director Hillary Hatch has been elevated to new responsibilities as the Tampa Bay cluster’s Marketing Director.

ASCAP, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, announced Tuesday that Nicole George-Middleton (pictured) and Shawn LeMone have both been promoted to Senior Vice President, Membership.

The trials of Steven Avery, as told by the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, have become a national phenomenon. iHeartRadio has launched a 10-part podcast series with non-practicing lawyer and journalist Dan O'Donnell, who covered Avery from 2003 through 2007.

Larry Wilson is Radio Ink Magazine's Radio Executive of The Year. The issue, in which Wilson appears on the cover, is out this week. The Alpha Media CEO is in the midst of creating his second large radio company, which will consist of 252 stations in 54 markets once the deal with Digity closes (which is expected soon). His first big company was, of course, Citadel which he sold to Forstmann Little back in 2001 for $1.2 Billion. Wilson and his team created a culture in radio that many people loved to work for at Citadel and that has carried over to Alpha. Here's an excerpt from our cover story with Wilson where we ask him to tell us why people love to work for him.

For the past 16 years the Country Radio Seminar has been held at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Nashville. This year the event is being held (Feb. 8 - Feb. 10) at the Omni Hotel. It's a change that took a lot of planning and plenty of hard work after being settled in one location for so long. Radio Ink's special Country Radio Seminar issue will be released on February 8. The issue will feature an interview with the President of the Board of Directors at CRS, Emmis' Charlie Morgan about the CRS changes.