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Alice @ 97.3 (KLLC-FM/San Francisco) on-air personality Vinnie Hasson isn’t going anywhere. Not now that he’s agreed to a new multi-year contract extension.

WUKS-FM/Fayetteville/NC has picked up the show for its 10 a.m.-3 p.m. weekday slot. It bumps The Big Teddy Bear to 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays.

Chad Edward Joyce is behind bars after being accused of stalking Alpha Media Lubbock host Amy Olivares. Joyce was indicted by a grand jury after allegedly breaking into Olivares' house and taking pictures of her while she was sleeping. Now Olivares is speaking out about the ordeal.

William Neil "Doc" Gallagher, who's show was running on three north Texas radio stations, has been arrested and charged with running a $20 million Ponzi scheme. The SEC alleges Gallagher targeted elderly investors' retirement funds.

Ryan McCredden is the new Operations Manager for Townsquare’s Quad Cities, IA, cluster: WXLP-FM, KJOC-FM, KIIKFM, KBEA-FM, and KBOB-AM.

And it will be in the capacity of Music Director for Cameron Moore at the Country station in North Carolina. Moore most recently worked at Midwest Family Broadcasting’s Top 40 and Country stations in Springfield, MO.

The Missouri Broadcasters Association has named its 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees. Broadcasters Gene Millard, Edwin T. “Ned” Reynolds, and the late W. Russell Withers, Jr. will be inducted June 8.

Sports Talker Josh Innes is out of a job again. The former WIP Philadelphia host was hired by iHeartMedia at their AM Sports Talker in Houston in 2016. He posted on Twitter Wednesday that he was let go after his morning show. He was told it was for budgetary reasons.

Bob Pittman, Rich Bressler, John Sykes, and Tom Poleman have been named UJA-Federation of New York’s "Music Visionaries of the Year." They will be honored for their outstanding professional and philanthropic achievements at the Music Visionary of the Year Award Luncheon June 11.

Entercom and Premiere Networks have announced a long-term contract extension that will keep the national radio talk show host on 15 Entercom talk stations across the country.