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Urban One Names Yonni Rude Dallas Operations Manager

Yonni Rude

Urban One Dallas has named Yonni Rude Operations Manager, overseeing programming for the company's three Dallas-Fort Worth radio brands: KBFB (97.9 The Beat), KRNB (Smooth 105.7) and KKDA (K104). Rude moves to Dallas after spending the past three years as Program Director for Urban One's Houston stations More

WMMB Host Bill Mick Retires After 25-Plus Years

Bill Mick

Longtime Space Coast radio personality Bill Mick is retiring from iHeartMedia's WMMB (92.7 WMMB), concluding more than 25 years on the air in Melbourne, FL. His final edition of "Bill Mick LIVE" airs Friday, September 18. Mick began his Space Coast radio career in 1998 and took over mornings at WMEL in More

NABLF Names 2027 Broadcast Leadership Training Class

NAB Leadership Foundation (NABLF)

The NAB Leadership Foundation (NABLF) has announced the 2027 class of its Broadcast Leadership Training (BLT) program, selecting 15 radio and television professionals for the industry leadership development initiative. For more than 25 years, BLT has prepared nearly 450 senior More

FCC Issues WSDS Notice Over EAS, Power Violations

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

The FCC's Enforcement Bureau has issued a Notice of Violation to Vazquez Broadcasting Corporation, licensee of WSDS-AM in Salem Township-Ypsilanti, MI, citing multiple violations involving Emergency Alert System monitoring, operating power and the station's directional antenna system. The notice, More

Second Circuit Stays Cumulus-Nielsen Enforcement Order

Nielsen and Cumulus Media

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has granted Nielsen a stay pending appeal of a federal judge's order requiring the ratings company to offer its Nationwide radio ratings product to Cumulus Media on commercially reasonable terms or face sanctions of $50,000 per day. The September 16 ruling More

Mike Sheffield Adds PD Duties at 97 Rock, Z102.3

Mike Sheffield

Cumulus Media has promoted Mike Sheffield to Program Director of Classic Rock WGRF-FM (97 Rock) in Buffalo and WQHZ-FM (Z102.3) in Erie, PA. Sheffield, who serves as Programming Operations Manager for Cumulus Erie, will continue programming Country WXTA-FM (Erie Country 97.9), AC WXKC-FM (Classy 100) and More

K-Love Names Dee Sethmajhi Chief Technology Officer

Dee Sethmajhi

K-Love, Inc. has named Debashree "Dee" Sethmajhi Chief Technology Officer, effective September 21. She will join the Ministry Leadership Team and report to CEO Tom Stultz. In her new role, Sethmajhi will lead K-Love's technology strategy across broadcast infrastructure, engineering, digital products, data More

iHeart Leads Triton August U.S. Podcast Ranker

Triton Digital

The iHeart Audience Network maintained its lead in Triton Digital's August 2026 U.S. Podcast Ranker, recording 65.9 million average weekly downloads during the August 3-30 reporting period. Audioboom remained second among sales networks with 14.9 million average weekly downloads, More

JAM Founders to Receive Texas Radio Hall Award

Mary Lyn and Jonathan Wolfert

The Texas Radio Hall of Fame (TRHOF) will honor JAM Creative Productions founders Jonathan and Mary Lyn Wolfert with its George Baches Award for Broadcast Marketing Excellence during its November 7 Induction Ceremony and Radio Reunion Weekend in Kilgore, TX. The Wolferts are being recognized for their More

Maney & LauRen Move to K104.7 in Charlotte

Maney & LauRen

Beasley Media Group will move "The Maney & LauRen Morning Show" to WKQC-FM (K104.7) in Charlotte beginning September 21. The show, featuring Maney, LauRen and producer Big Al, moves from sister station WNKS (Kiss 95.1), where it has aired for more than a decade. The change comes ahead of Beasley's More

Riley Couture Joins Lite 96 for Mornings

Riley Couture

WLXT (Lite 96) in Traverse City/Petoskey, MI, has named Riley Couture co-host of "The Lite Breakfast Show," joining Mark Elliott beginning Monday, September 21. Couture arrives at the MacDonald Garber Broadcasting station with previous stops at Power 96.1 in Atlanta and "The Kane Show" in Washington, DC. More

WBA Launches Young Broadcasters Development Fund

Terry and Sandy Shockley

Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of Famers Terry and Sandy Shockley (pictured) have established the Young Broadcasters Development Fund to encourage students and young professionals to pursue careers in broadcasting. The fund, managed by the WBA Foundation, was launched with a donation from the More

IAB Issues Guide for Measuring Video Podcasts

Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released a new industry guide addressing how the growth of video podcasting is changing the planning, buying and measurement of podcast advertising. "Podcasts Continue to Evolve: When Listeners Become Viewers," released in conjunction More

Radio News Salaries Rise for Second Straight Year

Radio news salaries increased for the second consecutive year in 2025, rising 7.64% and outpacing the 2.9% U.S. inflation rate, according to the latest RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey. The increase was considerably smaller than the 14.5% jump reported a year earlier. News reporters, More

MARC Media Adds Five Stations on Florida Gulf Coast

MARC Media

MARC Media Group has agreed to acquire five radio stations along Florida's Gulf Coast, continuing an expansion that has more than doubled the company's station holdings in the state during 2026. Pending FCC approval, MARC will acquire WGHR (Hits 106), WXCV (Citrus 95.3), simulcast More

BFOA Sets Chicago Media Mixer for October 7

BFOA Media Mixer

The Broadcasters Foundation of America (BFOA) will hold its next Media Mixer on October 7 at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, featuring iHeartMedia Chairman and CEO Bob Pittman as a special guest. The event, scheduled from 5:30-7:30pm CT, will serve as a kickoff More

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