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Remembering Jim Swindel

• Over the holiday weekend we received word of the passing of longtime industry executive Jim Swindel, who died on

• After a lengthy interplanetary search, Beasley Country WKLB (Country 102.5)/Boston has found its new morning co-host — Jonathan Wier will team

• As first reported by RAMP on Tuesday, Entercom has formally announced that Jay Hicks is the new PD of Rhythmic WPGC/Washington.

• Entercom has managed to coax Kansas City radio icon Mike Kennedy out of “retirement,” hiring him as the new OM/PD

• The Chief Executive Officers from the three largest radio broadcast groups — iHeartMedia, Entercom and Cumulus Media — will

• As of yesterday, Hurricane Dorian was responsible for the deaths of at least five people in the Bahamas, weakening

• Veteran programmer Tod Tucker is packing for a move to Louisiana as the newly named Operations Manager of Cenla Broadcasting’s cluster

• At noon on Friday, after an hour of stunting with Bad Bunny‘s “Fuego Fuego — Faya Faya” on repeat,

• Townsquare Media used the occasion of Labor Day weekend to launch a new Active Rock station for the Quad

• RAMP has confirmed that Double J has resigned his position as APD and morning co-host on SummitMedia Rhythmic KPHW (Power 104.3)/Honolulu and will