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Alpha Media, Greenville-New Bern announced the appointment of three Senior Account Executives to sales management positions. Tori Ange and Paula Wood have been promoted...

New KFOG morning host and respected rock jock Matt Pinfield has been selected to host a new two-hour weeknight show, 2Hours with Matt Pinfield. The show will launch the week of May 2.

An NPR series has won a 2015 George Foster Peabody Away. The series revealed, for the first time, that the Pentagon exposed more than 60,000 African-American and Japanese-American troops to mustard gas to look for racial differences in reactions, and that the Department of Veterans Affairs broke their promise to find and help the affected men.

Big Boy’s Neighborhood will debut Monday on iHeart's Throwback Hip Hop and R&B station, 92.1 THE BEAT in Norfolk, VA. iHeartMedia launched Big Boy into syndication through Premiere just last month. His home base station is in L.A.

Pictured here with WFLA-FM PD Jim Poling and GSM Mark Kanak, is Dave Ramsey who hosted his Smart Conference to a packed crowd in Orlando, Saturday.

Scripps owned WTMJ has made several programming changes at its heritage news station in Milwaukee. Eric Brooks (pictured) gets promoted to the position of Director, Programming & News and Erin Dismeier is also promoted, to Executive Producer of WTMJ Programming.

Veteran hip-hop icon YoYo is the newest addition to the nationally syndicated Café Mocha Radio. As the show moves into its sixth year, the Ice Cube protégé has signed on to be a permanent co-host of the top-rated weekend show targeting women.

102.1 The Edge KDGE-FM, Dallas/Fort Worth, announced Friday that longtime Texas radio host Atom Smasher will take over mornings on The Edge with The Atom Smasher Show, beginning Monday, May 2, 2016.

A memorial service will be held for syndicated host Doug Banks tomorrow at Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral in Dallas. Banks died Monday of complications from diabetes. The New Pittsburgh Courrier reports that Banks lost a toe and an eye to the disease and was on dialysis. He continued to work though, making an appearance in Chicago the day before he died, at the Black Women’s Expo. Banks was 57.

After four years away, Frank Ski is back in Atlanta. Ski is returning to CBS's V-103 April 23 and will host shows Saturdays from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and Sundays from 7 p.m.-11 p.m.