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Country Singer Todd O’Neill has won the NASH Next 2016 Challenge artist development competition. O’Neill, who hails from Hammond, LA, will receive national radio airplay on Cumulus Media radio stations, a recording contract with Big Machine Label Group, and will have an original song produced by Jay DeMarcus...

Jeff Warshaw's Connoisseur Media has hired Lisa Sonnenklar as COO of Connoisseur's Integrated Solutions Division. Warshaw said, "Using our potent mix of radio, digital, and event marketing assets, we have been able to get tremendous ROI and visibility for many of our clients. We are now putting even more firepower into these efforts. We are delighted to welcome Lisa into the Connoisseur family.”

It's a newly created position for McHale who comes to CBS Radio from American Apparel, where he was SVP and Chief Information Officer and responsible for rebuilding the entire IT organization from the ground up.

That’s Tino Cochino, who will be behind the mic weeknights, 7-10 p.m. on Portland's WE 96.3 (KWEE) starting Monday, October 24.

Nationally syndicated talker Dave Ramsey hosted his Smart Conference to a packed crowd in Houston at Grace Community Church Saturday. Ramsey teamed up with AM 700 KSEV to bring in the crowd.

The San Antonio talk show legend died Friday morning, reports NEWS4SA.com. Ware began his radio career in the mid-1950s in Baytown, Texas before moving to Austin, Texas, where he worked for LBJ at KTBC radio and television.

It's a multi-year contract renewal for Michael Martin. Martin is Senior VP of Programming and Music Initiatives for CBS Radio and PD at Top 40 station KMVQ-FM and Hot AC KLLC-FM in San Francisco. Martin is also CBS Radio's Top 40 format captain.

The former WOR New York General Manager is launching his own radio show on WVOX-AM, The Voice of Westchester. The weekly two-hour show that debuts this weekend is called The Best of Everything.

Radio One founder and chairperson Cathy Hughes will be honored by Howard University, Sunday, when the Washington, D.C. college renames its school of communications the Cathy Hughes School of Communications. The unveiling ceremony will be live-streamed via Facebook and on all of Radio One local and national digital media platforms. Radio Ink will also honor Hughes in November at Forecast with the Radio Ink Lifetime Leadership Award.

Kenny Wall has been named PD at Cumulus' NASH FM 92.9/WLXX in Lexington. Wall joins Cumulus from Townsquare in Amarillo, where he was Ops Manager.