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Bubba The Love Sponge has added affiliates in Phoenix (97.3-FM) and Melbourne (WIXC-AM). Add those two stations to affiliates he recently added in Pittsburgh and Detroit and Bubba is now up to 8 stations.

Tias Schuster has been named SVP of Programming for Rochester, Syracuse and Binghamton. Schuster will oversee 19 stations across the three upstate New York cities. He moves to New York from iHeart Norfolk where he was also SVP of Programming.

Emily Ward is the new General Sales Manager for Entercom Chattanooga. Ward has gone from Account Executive to Local Sales Manager and now GSM in two years.

Salem Radio Network hosts Larry Elder and Hugh Hewitt are being offered as potential Presidential Debate moderators. The hosts names were submitted to the Commission on Presidential Debates on behalf of the Trump-Pence campaign.

Results Radio has hired Kelsey Sauers as APD and PM Driver for KEWB-FM in Redding. Sauers arrives from Alpha Media in Mankato where she's been on the air since 2019.

iHeart's WAIO-FM in Rochester fired Kimberly Ray and Barry Beck in June following racist remarks Ray made on the air back in June. On Wednesday Earl David Reed, Megan Carter and Pat McMahon were hired to fill that afternoon drive slot. They will be called The Big Show.

SBG has announced that Chris Cruise is joining the syndication program Throwback Nation Radio. Cruise has worked mornings at 98.7 AMP Radio (WDZH-FM) in Detroit, 103.5 KISS FM (KSAS-FM) in Boise and nights at 94.1 KMPS in Seattle.

SuiteRadio has announced that it will be syndicating the morning team of Bud Ford and Jerry Broadway. The duo hosted mornings on WIL in St. Louis for four years before the COVID cutbacks.

One of the most well know DJs of the 60's in Seattle, Pat O'Day has died, he was 85. O'Day is most remembered for ruling the afternoon airwaves at KJR-AM.

New York Yankee radio play-by-play man John Sterling is out of the hospital and feeling great after being treated for a blood infection (he tested negative for COVID-19). He's planning to be back calling games starting Wednesday. Neil Best spoke to the 82-year old broadcaster for an article in Newsday .