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After being diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia about a year ago, the legendary broadcaster has died at the age of 66. He had been suffering with the misdiagnosed disease for three years. Ross is pictured here with former Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey.

Stephanie Ollinger was the midday host on NRG's Country station WYTE-FM in Wausau-Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She died on Saturday while celebrating her anniversary with her husband. She was only 31.

Atlanta’s STAR 94.1 has added a man with an interesting name to its personality roster. Zack Babb will cover weekdays, 8 p.m. to midnight, as well as hosting occasional weekend shifts.

KKHH-FM in Texas announced two on-air changes on Monday. Michele McKnight (pictured) will officially take over middays and JayDee (DJ Dizzle) takes over as the new evening host. McKnight and Jay Dee have been rotating shifts on a part-time basis for HOT 95-7 since June.

The announcement has added extra luster to next year’s CRS in Nashville (February 22-24). Keith will present Toby Keith: My Way on Friday, Feb. 24 from 3-4 p.m. CT., discussing his career, forming his own label, and building a business empire, among other things.

Herbster becomes VP of programming for iHeartMedia’s Pacific Northwest Region, as well as serving as PD of Z100 and JAM’N 107.5 in Portland. The region includes Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Fairbanks and Anchorage.

It’s the Hagerstown-Chambersburg market and they’ve snapped up Dorsey to be their new VP/Market Manager. The market is home to WHAG-AM, WCHA-AM, WCHA-FM, WIKZ-FM, WQCM-FM, and WDLD-FM. Most recently, Dorsey held the position of Director of Sales in the Hagerstown-Chambersburg market.

The news comes from the 89.3 WFPL website. Bickers was a host on 89.3 WFPL and 91.9 WFPK for nearly 20 years. He died Thursday. He was 45 years old. Those who knew him best described him as affable, funny, and engaging.

Twenty-eight-year radio vet Mike Vincent has left his PD/on-air post at WSJR/NASH FM 93.7 in Wilkes Barre, PA, to take up his new dual role for Cumulus’ four-station cluster in Melbourne, FL.

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dave Ramsey presented his Smart Money event to a sold out crowd in Boston on Thursday by filling the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Here Ramsey is pictured with consultant Holland Cooke, and Phil Zachary, VP and market manager for Entercom New England.