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Mike "Sandman" Sanders, the Program Director of Saga Communications' WVVR in Clarksville, TN, has shared news of his departure. As PD, he also oversaw WRND, WQEZ, and WCVQ-HD3. Sanders joined the cluster in September 2020.

As our industry worries about the state of radio's "farm team," The Nebraska Broadcasters Association and the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association have launched The High School Radio Project to teach high school media students real-world radio skills and encourage future talent.

Google is the latest company bringing Zoom to automobiles. At Wednesday's I/O Conference, the tech company announced its collaboration with Zoom as well as Cisco's WebEx and Microsoft Teams to bring digital conferencing to the 200 million cars with Android Auto.

NewsGuard and Barometer have partnered to create an AI-powered solution to detect potential misinformation in podcasts. The solution integrates NewsGuard's Misinformation Fingerprints with Barometer's natural language processing to create risk profiles for podcasts.

Libsyn's AdvertiseCast has entered into an exclusive advertising agreement with The NewsWorthy, a daily news podcast hosted by award-winning journalist Erica Mandy. The program will leverage AdvertiseCast to augment its host-read program with programmatic ad revenue.

(By Roy H. Williams) A number of marketing's oldest ideas are getting repackaged and renamed by the online marketing crowd. Among these new names are "transparency," "engagement," and the "Zero Moment of Truth." What is transparency, really?

Days after releasing 2022's highest-earning stations, BIA Advisory Services has put out the ranking of radio's top radio owners by revenue for the year. The top four for 2021 maintained their positions in 2022. Only one ownership group fell off the list.

Country Radio Seminar has announced the second CRS360 webinar of 2023, titled "The CRS Music Test: It Takes All Sorts." The May 17 session will feature a panel discussion on the effectiveness of the auditorium music test conducted by NuVoodoo.

WBUR Boston CEO Margaret Low has been elected to the NPR Board of Directors. Low will serve as a Member Director with her term expiring in November 2025. Low, who has also worked for The Atlantic, has led WBUR since 2019.

SiriusXM's Stitcher Studios is set to release a new podcast series called Sounds Gay on May 24. The series, hosted and produced by Sarah Esocoff, tells the stories of queer individuals whose lives have been transformed by music.