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Carla Rea has renewed a multiyear deal to continue serving as Co-Host with Mike O’Brian on the Mike & Carla Morning Show on 96.3 KKLZ-FM in Las Vegas. She has co-hosted the show for a decade.

Beasley Media Group has hired Pat Eastburn as Vice President of Digital Sales. Eastburn spent the past seven years serving as the Vice President and General Manager at Flypaper Digital Marketing.

Saga's KIOA-FM in Des Moines has hired a new morning show co-host for the station. Jeriney (pictured) joins the station from Audacy, Kansas City’s KRBZ FM, where she was most recently the producer of the syndicated afternoon show, The Church of Lazlo.

The Dana Cortez show has returned to mornings in San Antonio. Cortez and her crew return to 98.5 The Beat (KBBT-FM) after about a four-year absence from the market.

Audacy in Kansas City has named JR Ammons Operations Manager. He will also serve as Brand Manager for two of the stations in the four-station cluster.

On Friday, iHeartMedia Chief Programming Officer and President of the National Programming Group, Tom Poleman announced that Mark Adams and Dylan Sprague were named VP's for the company's CHR format. And, Cara Hahn and Taylor Jukes have officially joined iHeart as CHR Brand Coordinators.

Radio One Charlotte has launched The Mo Show hosted by Mo Quick on 92.7 The Block, weekdays 10am to 2pm. 

Albert (Gene) Guthrie, of Grantsville, Utah, has died of natural causes. He was 83. At the age of just 15, Guthrie found his love for radio and regularly rode the train to El Paso where he worked at KHEY AM while attending high school.

According to Mac, after having employees work remotely for 19 months, Cumulus Media Beaumont has eliminated their real estate footprint in Beaumont, and relocated its studios, office and staff with its cluster in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

SiriusXM host Joe Madison has been on a hunger strike since November of 2021 hoping Congress would pass voting rights legislation. Now that it appears that issue is dead in the water on Capitol Hill, after 74 days without eating, Madison is throwing in the towel. Listen to his statement HERE.