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Meredith Corporation Local Media Group President Paul Karpowicz will receive the 2017 Golden Mike Award from the Broadcasters Foundation of America. Meredith's Local Media Group includes 17 television stations.

Adams Radio Group’s Las Cruces, NM, cluster has named Aleta Gross to the position. Most recently, Adams worked for NRG Media’s cluster in Dixon, Illinois, from 1997-2015. Adams assumes her new role on November 28.

It was reported in the New York City press over the weekend that Imus never gave legendary sports anchor Warner Wolf a reason he was booted from the show. And on Tuesday it was announced that Sid Rosenberg would return to the Imus program as sports anchor.

Don Dalesio will join the company as its new Chief Operating Officer and Market President. He will have complete oversight of Press’ marketing, sales, promotions, programming, and digital sales efforts as well as overall general management of the day-to-day operations.

The country music will flow this Thanksgiving with the four-hour, commercial-free CMT Thanksgiving Special with Cody Alan. Premiere Networks announced the Thanksgiving special for Country stations, Thursday. The special will feature country hits as well as holiday-themed songs, hosted by CMT personality Alan.

iHeartMedia's KLOU-FM in St. Louis has named Jules Riley PD at the "Greatest Hits of the '70s and '80s" station. Riley has over 15 years experience, including Ops Manager, Brand Manager, PD, and host. She moves to St. Louis from Tulsa where she was Operations Manager for Scripps' KVOO-FM. From 2005 until 2008, Riley was PD for WARH-FM and KMVN-FM in St. Louis, where she was named one of Radio Ink’s Best Program Directors in America in 2007.

News Director Rob Graham is retiring after 32 years with WINA Charlottesville. Graham joined WINA in 1982 and was there until 2000 when he went into public relations, returning to WINA two years later.

iHeart's "Variety" station WASH-FM in DC is bringing back Jenni Chase to host middays. Chase held down that slot until a family move took her to Dallas this past spring. She's also worked the midday position for iHeartMedia’s WMZQ-FM, and has more than 15 years of experience in Washington, DC, as an on-air talent. Sabrina Conte will segue to host 97.1 WASH-FM’s afternoon drive.

Justin Cole is the new Senior Vice President of Programming for iHeart Chattanooga, effective immediately. Stations in the cluster include US101, 103.7 KISS FM, and ROCK 105. Cole will work with radio station personalities and PDs to oversee on-air content and music programming for all five stations in market.

Late last week ESPN Radio's Dan Le Batard went off on management in his local Miami hour when someone -- who was not named on the air -- told Le Batard to stop talking about a story that was in the Miami Herald. Le Batard made it clear that was not going to happen.