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Remembering Bill Pfordresher

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• We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of a friend to many in our industry — longtime

• Radha Subramanyam, Executive Vice President, Chief Research and Analytics Officer for the CBS Television Network, and former iHeartMedia President

• Longtime Miami radio personality John “Footy” Kross, a three-decade veteran of WHYI (Y-100)/Miami and the namesake of the station’s

• Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter of The Mavericks, the groundbreaking group that brought Latin flavor and a rock

• David Jones, former longtime Providence radio vet and a member of the Rhode Island Radio and Television Hall of

• Legendary guitarist Steve Cropper, best known for his work with Booker T. & the MG’s and the Stax Records

• We were deeply saddened to hear that Michelle Matthews (Michelle Weber Rigden), Operations Manager of American General Media’s Albuquerque,

• RAMP joins the rest of the industry in mourning the untimely passing of a Chicago radio icon — Joe

• Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer, actor and cultural ambassador for Reggae music, who starred in and wrote the title

• One of the bright lights of Alt Country/Americana music, singer-songwriter Todd Snider has died. He was only 59. According