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Cumulus Media announced Wednesday that veteran radio man Jerry Padden has been appointed to the position of Program Director of 100.7 LEV/WLEV-FM. The new role is added to Padden’s duties as Cumulus Media Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Operations Manager and PD of sister station CAT Country 96/WCTO-FM.

Manuel will join the company as Director, TopicPulse Partnership Development. A Peabody Award-winning broadcast news executive, Manuel comes to Futuri after two years as Assistant News Director at WFLD in Chicago. Prior to that, she spent nearly six years in Cleveland as the News Director at WEWS.

It's called JOX PrimeTime and the show will now air on Cumulus' sports station in Birmingham weeknights from 6-8 p.m. following Paul Finebaum.

The new show, which will debut on August 8, is called The Audible and it features Bay Area natives Kevin Frandsen, Drew Hoffar, and Rudy Ortiz. The local program replaces CBS Sports Radio's Tiki & Tierney.

Last week, the Bobby Bones Show featured former U.S. Marine Sgt. Kirstie Ennis on the Country morning radio show to share how she lost her leg serving as a helicopter door gunner in the military. This inspired Bones and his on-air crew to honor her service using proceeds from the sale of “America Strong” T-shirts.

The syndicated morning show will now be heard on STAR 107-9/KVGS-FM in Vegas. Current morning host Aimee will stay on and provide hourly local content for the show. Brooke & Jubal are also heard in Seattle, San Antonio, and Portland. The show is produced by Hubbard and has been distributed by Premiere since March.

Ashley “AC” Trybula is taking on the role as Digital Program Director for iHeartMedia's Chicago cluster, which includes 107.5 WGCI, V103, 103.5 KISS-FM, 93.9 MYfm, BIG 95.5, and Inspiration 1390 AM.

Premiere's FOX Sports Radio says The Herd with Colin Cowherd is now broadcasting on over 100 affiliates. Cowherd's newest stations and markets include: WINZ-AM in Miami, KHHO-AM in Seattle, KGME-AM in Phoenix, and KLSD-AM in San Diego. After leaving middays at ESPN, The Herd launched on FOX Sports Radio, iHeartRadio, and FS1 in September 2015.

The Baltimore Sun has the details of Marr's funeral which was held on Friday. Marr started his radio career at WFBR-AM in 1967. He also broadcast Baltimore Orioles games. He started working at WCBM in 1988 and became a recognized conservative talker. He was still working at WCBM when he died of a stroke, at the age of 73, after undergoing back surgery.

You may not have heard of Dani Mathers’ but she’s certainly done her best to change that. Cumulus' KLOS in Los Angeles -- where Mathis was an on-air contractor making appearances on the Heidi & Frank morning show -- has been fired for a photo she posted on social media.