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Y108 in Pittsburgh is moving "Ally" from middays to mornings. She'll be joined by producer/sidekick Andy Davis to form a new show, Ally & Andy. Ally has been with CBS Radio Pittsburgh for 10 years, the last seven of those with WDSY. Davis is the leader of the Andy Davis Band, a pro-am snowboarder, and sponsored hunter.

Entercom South Florida's new morning show is called The Big Mistake on its alternative station The Shark. Greg "Toast" Lemega will join current morning show host Ashley Owen.

Diane Goff, who has worked at the NAB for nearly 47 years, will retire at the end of this month. Goff, who is NAB's payroll and accounts payable manager, joined the NAB finance department on April 14, 1969, in an administrative role making $5,000 a year.

That's what WLW (Cincinnati) talk-show host Bill Cunningham said on his WLW afternoon show. Part-time host Lisa Wells faces charges of drug possession and driving while impaired after being pulled over on January 25. Cunningham wanted to point out that Wells was not on heroin or cocaine, according to WCPO.

Elvis Duran, host of Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, will host the 2016 Golden Mike Award, February 29 in New York City. iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman will be honored.

Zidarevich gets the newly created position of VP of West Coast Operations for Premiere Networks. In her previous role as VP of Network Operations for FOX Sports Radio, Zidarevich was responsible for overseeing the operations of FSR’s 24/7 lineup, as well as managing studio operations and program staffing needs for Premiere in L.A. Her expanded role will now include all West Coast programming operations for Premiere.

The Chicagoland Radio and Media Blog has the details about Lake's firing which took place late yesterday. The blog states no reason was given, although it appears to be for budgetary reasons. Lake had been with WLS-FM since 2008. Last night, Lake took to his Facebook page with the news...

Proclaim FM 102.3 host Mark Howington has been arrested for inappropriately touching a woman in a Target bathroom on February 11th. According to 13ABC TV police allege Howington went into the women's bathroom at Target and slapped Piechowski's behind "extremely hard" as he passed her. Police have charged Howington with assault, obstructing official business and carrying concealed weapons.

Travis Daily has been named Region Senior VP of Programming for the Tampa region, which includes Sarasota. Daily will keep his position as PD for WFUS-FM in Tampa. Daily has consistently been on Radio Ink's Best Country PD list. iHeart has 13 radio stations in Tampa and Sarasota.

iHeartMedia also announced on Wednesday that Brian Gann has been promoted to Director of Operations for Spoken Word in the Austin-San Antonio region. He will oversee WOAI and KTKR in San Antonio and KVET-AM in Austin. Gann has been with iHeartMedia since January of 2014 where he served as the PD for WOAI and KTKR. Before San Antonio, Gann was the Ops Manager for Journal in Tulsa for more than 23 years.