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It’s John Riley, co-host of The Morning Drive with John & Nancy on 93.3 The Drive (WPBG), Peoria, and the award is the Bill Houlihan Professional Award from Children’s Hospital of Illinois.

Jesse Bewley has been named Digital Director for Hubbard Radio Minneapolis St.-Paul. Bewley will oversee the digital strategy for Hubbard’s three radio stations in the Twin Cities: KS95-FM, myTalk 107.1 and 1500 ESPN. He replaces Jeremy Sinon who was recently promoted to corporate position.

WGN has extended the contract of afternoon host Roe Conn into the year 2020. Conn began hosting weekday afternoons at WGN Radio in January 2015.

Both sides put a nice happy spin on the situation but the Hubbard hire of Dan McNeil at WDRV in Chicago was short-lived and contentious along the way.

He's the Senior VP and GM of Greater Media Interactive, a role he's occupied since 2007, and he says he'll be retiring at the end of this month. Before going digital, Tom Bender was Regional GM for Greater Media’s Detroit cluster since 1986, where he was responsible for creating one of the first Classic Rock stations in America, WCSX-FM, and a whole lot more.

iHeartMedia’s Jeff Stevens has been moved up to Senior VP Programming in Dayton. iHeart has six FMs and two AMs in the Dayton market. Stevens was PD and morning show personality for Mix 107.7 in Dayton and has been with iHeart/Clear Channel for 22 years.

77 WABC’s Joan Hamburg taped a special show at Sardi's Restaurant in New York City this week to celebrate this Sunday’s Tony Awards. Hamburg chatted it up with some of Broadway’s biggest names to talk about their shows and Tony nominations.

WNKS KISS 95.1’s Maney, Roy and LauRen Morning Show crew will appear on TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life, starring Whitney Thore. The third season premieres Wednesday, June 8 at 9/8c.

Gantt will hold shifts on both KHQT (Hot 103) and KSNM (Classic Hits 98.7). A North Carolina native, Stacy "Carolina" Gantt is also a graduate of the Charlotte, NC, campus of Connecticut School of Broadcasting. Her first radio job was an intern on the Ace & TJ Show on WNKS.

Mike Tyler, owner of Broadcast Affiliate Sales and partner in Fishnet Syndication, has been hired by BizTalkRadio to head up affiliate relations. Tyler was most recently VP at TKO Radio Networks, which he and his Partner Kent Jones purchased. Mike was also VP of Rejoice Radio Networks before becoming a Partner in Fishnet Syndication. Tyler has also served on the NAB's Board of Directors.