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Quu Tabs Alan Jurison to Lead Innovation and Special Projects

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Quu Tabs Alan Jurison to Lead Innovation and Special Projects

Quu has announced the addition of Alan Jurison to lead the company’s special projects and innovation.

Jurison comes to the company from iHeartMedia where he served as the Senior Operations Engineer. In 2024, he earned the Radio World Excellence in Engineering Award for his work in optimizing RDS displays and his work with HD Radio for the company.

“Throughout my career, I’ve been passionate about elevating radio technology and helping the industry understand the critical role of metadata, especially in the digital dashboard,” said Alan Jurison. “Joining Quu is an incredible opportunity to build on that mission. I’m eager to contribute to this talented team’s efforts to strengthen radio stations’ relationships with their listeners and advertising clients.”

In his new role, Jurison will report to Quu Senior Director of Technical Services Joe Marshall.

“Alan’s innovative mindset and technical expertise make him an exceptional addition to Quu,” said Steve Newberry, CEO of Quu. “His vision aligns perfectly with our goals to help radio boost ratings and generate new revenue through visual solutions that engage and retain audiences.”

Jurison is on the job and meeting with industry professionals at CES in Las Vegas this week.

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Ben Ealy Departs Mornings At Country 104.7 WAYZ Hagerstown MD

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Ben Ealy Departs Mornings At Country 104.7 WAYZ Hagerstown MD

Country 104.7 WAYZ Hagerstown, MD, has announced changes in its morning lineup. Morning host Ben Ealy has departed the station. Afternoon co-host Katy Dickinson will take over the morning slot with a new program, “Mornings with Katy.”

Ealy wrote on Instagram, “I’ve been debating when the best time to share this would be, and I guess today works better than anything else.”

“Shortly before the holidays, 104.7 WAZY and I parted ways. I am beyond thankful for the past few years. I’ve had so much fun waking up the tristate.”

Dan Michaels will continue to host afternoons.

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Jessica Smetana: ‘I Feel Super, Super Lucky’ to Not Have Been on Bourbon Street During Truck Attack

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Jessica Smetana: ‘I Feel Super, Super Lucky’ to Not Have Been on Bourbon Street During Truck Attack

Last week, a truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans killed at least 14 people and injured 35 more in what is being called an act of terrorism by the FBI. Due to the attack and pending investigation, the Allstate Sugar Bowl at Caesars Superdome was postponed for 20 hours and impacted the mood surrounding the College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup. Jessica Smetana, an alumna of the University of Notre Dame, was in town to attend the game but not out in the French Quarter district when the devastating attack transpired.

Explaining the situation on Monday’s edition of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, Smetana divulged that she had been in South Bend, Ind. to watch the team defeat Indiana in the first round of the College Football Playoff. Smetana traveled to New Orleans for the quarterfinal matchup, but she ended up leaving the next day following the attacks due to difficulty associated with travel logistics and other obligations at home, she explained on social media. Smetana also shared that she “would have felt really uneasy about attending” and elaborated on the situation on the air.

“I feel super, super lucky that we weren’t on Bourbon Street when the attack happened, but we were there all day on New Year’s Eve, and waking up Wednesday to a hundred texts from loved ones asking if we were okay is just a really jarring feeling,” Smetana said. “So I feel really, really lucky obviously, and I’m glad we’re okay, but it’s a horrible situation.”

Smetana articulated that she shared links on her Instagram story where people can donate to help some of the victims and added that she would repost it Monday as well. The show addressed what took place while discussing other football news, including the impact of Pat McAfee on College GameDay and FOX Sports listing that lead analyst Tom Brady is a seven-time Super Bowl champion in his lower-third graphic.

Le Batard acknowledged that the transition from Smetana’s experience to discussing staying at the Golic household was awkward and later spoke about a purported “aging cynicism” from longtime sports media professionals covering college football. Smetana’s remarks followed Le Batard and co-host Jon “Stugotz” Weiner conveying how Notre Dame is one of, if not the best college football team in the country.

“It’s just an awful, awful, awful situation, and I just feel terrible for all the victims and all the families and everyone who was impacted by the attack on New Year’s Day morning,” Smetana concluded. “It was just truly just a horrific thing.”

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Audacy Announces Partnership With Claritas for New Enhanced Advertising Measurement

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Audacy Announces Partnership With Claritas for New Enhanced Advertising Measurement

Audacy has announced a new partnership with Claritas for enhanced measurement capabilities for its broadcast and digital audio advertising campaigns.

The partnership will allow advertisers to bolster their return on investment by showcasing the value audio advertising offers to marketers.

According to a statement from the companies, the Audacy and Claritas solution will integrate broadcast radio spot logs into multiplatform campaigns that Claritas is measuring for Audacy clients, tracking reach and impression frequency for ads running on Audacy broadcast stations. Claritas will combine this data with census-level website activity, including site visits, purchases, and form fills, and analyze it through a proprietary data science model.

“Multi-platform audio campaigns that couple traditional radio and digital to deliver better outcomes for our advertiser partners’ audio investments and to their overall media plans,” said Audacy Chief Marketing Officer Paul Suchman. “By integrating Claritas’ advanced measurement methodology into Audacy’s analytics stack, we’ll equip our clients with even more actionable data on how their campaigns are performing and Audio’s impact on overall  campaign results.”

The partnership was announced at the Consumer Electronic Show 2025.

“Audacy and Claritas have delivered an important breakthrough in advertising measurement, integrating broadcast and digital. The insights on who is converting based on Claritas ID Graph, combined with GenAI analysis, are immediately actionable,” said Claritas Chief AI Officer Rex Briggs. “We are enabling advertisers to bolster their return on investment while proving the strategic value audio advertising delivers to businesses.”

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ESPN Signs Contract Extension with NFL Draft Analyst Jordan Reid

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ESPN Signs Contract Extension with NFL Draft Analyst Jordan Reid

ESPN announced it has re-signed NFL draft analyst Jordan Reid to a new contract. Reid will continue as a member of the network’s year-round coverage of the NFL Draft along with the likes of Mel Kiper Jr., Field Yates and Matt Miller.

Reid will continue to be found primarily on ESPN.com and ESPN+. During NFL draft season, Reid will also make appearances across ESPN studio shows and contribute to ESPN’s on-site NFL draft coverage. Reid will continue to post NFL draft prospect rankings, position rankings, mock drafts and 2024 NFL rookie rankings, among other things.

Reid joined ESPN in 2021 and previously served as a writer and scout for The Draft Network. Previously, Reid served as a football coach at his alma mater, North Carolina Central University, from 2014-18, helping the Eagles win three MEAC titles. His move to coaching followed his playing career at the school (2010-13), where he started for three seasons at quarterback and achieved the school record for completion percentage.

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Greg Gutfeld to Return to Fox News After Paternity Leave

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Greg Gutfeld to Return to Fox News After Paternity Leave

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld is set to return to the network on Monday, January 6th after stepping away for paternity leave after he and his wife welcomed a baby girl in December.

On Tuesday, December 10th, Dana Perino announced that Gutfeld was absent for the best of reasons, as his wife had given birth to a daughter. In a statement sent to the show, Gutfeld joked that his daughter was “healthy with a real set of lungs.”

Greg Gutfeld’s return to Fox News follows 2024, which was his late-night show — Gutfeld! — seeing its best year in program history, as it averaged 2.5 million viewers. A September visit with then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump set a new high-water mark for the show as nearly 5 million viewers tuned into the conversation.

In addition to hosting the late-night show, Gutfeld, 60, is also a panelist on the network’s show The Five — alongside hosts Jesse Watters, Dana Perino, and Jeanine Pirro — which led all of cable news in total viewership during 2024.

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‘The Morning Mosh Pit’ Debuts On Rock 95.5 Chicago

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‘The Morning Mosh Pit’ Debuts On Rock 95.5 Chicago

iHeartMedia’s Rock 95.5 WCHI-FM in Chicago has debuted “The Morning Mosh Pit.”

Evening host Maria Palmer will join Matt ‘Marris’ Harris and Michael Mason on the new show.

iHeartMedia Chicago Regional SVP/Programming James Howard said, “We have assembled an insanely talented group to entertain Chicago’s incredible rock lifestyle fanbase. We are excited to deliver truly compelling content every morning on ROCK 95.5.”

Palmer’s move to the morning slot fills the vacancy created by Angi Taylor’s departure during iHeart’s November nationwide staff reductions.

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College Football Playoff Quarterfinal Games Average 16.9 Million Viewers on ESPN Networks

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College Football Playoff Quarterfinal Games Average 16.9 Million Viewers on ESPN Networks

Quarterfinal games within the 12-team College Football Playoff averaged 16.9 million viewers on ESPN platforms as the network presented pivotal game action last week. The Rose Bowl Game led the pack with an average of 21.1 million viewers watching the matchup between Ohio State and Oregon on Wednesday night, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. Compared to the previous year, the matchup was down 24% from the overtime thriller between Michigan and Alabama in the semifinals last year. The game was the most-watched non-NFL sporting event since the National Championship Game within last year’s College Football Playoff. Viewership for the matchup peaked at 24.3 million viewers, helping to garner the largest audience of the college football season thus far.

As part of the ESPN MegaCast presentation, the network presented a new edition of Field Pass with The Pat McAfee Show on ESPN2. The telecast made history as the most-viewed alternate broadcast in ESPN history with an average of 2.4 million viewers. Earlier in the day, College GameDay also collected an average of 2.4 million viewers for a three-hour episode of the show airing live from the Rose Bowl Game. The pregame show was up 70% year-over-year and peaked at 4.6 million viewers.

The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl between Texas and Arizona State drew an average of 17.3 million viewers, marking the most-watched College Football Playoff game in history to kick off before 3 p.m. EST. Viewership declined by 22.7% from the last iteration of the Peach Bowl when Georgia attained a sudden victory over Ohio State in prime time. Yet viewership within the overall 1 p.m. EST window recorded a 7% increase from the 16.1 million it averaged last year when three different Bowl games aired concurrently on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. The viewership of this year’s Peach Bowl peaked with an audience of 23.6 million, marking the third most-watched Peach Bowl in history. Texas will face Ohio State in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday at 7:30 p.m. EST with a spot in the National Championship Game on the line.

A truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that killed 14 people and injured several more civilians delayed kickoff of the Allstate Sugar Bowl by 20 hours from Caesars Superdome. The quarterfinal game between Notre Dame and Georgia averaged 15.8 million viewers in the afternoon slot, down 16% from the semifinal game in the traditional Rose Bowl window last year. The game was the least-watched playoff edition of the Sugar Bowl and peaked with 19.5 million viewers.

Concluding the slate of games, the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl started action in the quarterfinals on Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. EST and averaged 13.9 million viewers. This is the least-watched playoff edition of the matchup in its history, according to Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch, and peaked with 15.9 million viewers. The game was also the only quarterfinal game to fall behind average viewership for a game in the first round (Tennessee-Ohio State, 14.7 million viewers). Penn State will face Notre Dame in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. EST, with the winner advancing to the National Championship Game.

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VSiN Rejoins SiriusXM, Launching New Joint Program with Mad Dog Sports Radio

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VSiN Rejoins SiriusXM, Launching New Joint Program with Mad Dog Sports Radio

VSiN has announced its return to SiriusXM, bringing some new friends along for the ride. Today, the companies announced that VSiN would return to the satellite radio provider on Jan.17 on SiriusXM channel 158. 

In addition to the 24/7 sports betting channel, VSiN and Mad Dog Sports Radio will team up to produce more sports betting content. “VSiN Live on Mad Dog Sports Radio” will air on weeknights from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET, bringing back former “The Wrap” host Patrick Meagher and longtime cohort Dustin Swedelson to the channel. That show premieres on Jan. 6 and promises to deliver “sports talk and wagering-focused content to listeners while games are in progress.”

“I’m thrilled to be working with the great team at SiriusXM again and excited that this agreement will allow us to collaborate on wagering and fantasy sports content that will entertain their national sports audience,” said Steve Cohen, executive vice president of talent and programming at VSiN. “A great first example of this collaboration is the daily show we’ll be jointly producing for Mad Dog Sports Radio, and we look forward to delivering additional first-in-class sports talk programming together.”

VSiN originally aired radio programming on SiriusXM from 2017 to 2020 but has since been absent from the platform since then. The station was headlined by Brent Musburger’s “My Guys in the Desert,” a show that played off Musburger’s longtime broadcasting nod and wink to Las Vegas’ sports betting scene before the activity was legalized elsewhere. Musburger still acts as the lead broadcaster and managing editor for VSiN. His nephew, Brian, is the company’s president and chief business officer and is equally excited about the news.

“We’ve always understood the importance of the SiriusXM platform for sports fans and betting enthusiasts and are thrilled to deliver the unique sports betting content this engaged and growing audience is looking for – straight from the entertainment and gaming capital of the world in Las Vegas,” the younger Musburger said in a statement. “Distribution on SiriusXM is a critical component of our expansion strategy and helps solidify VSiN’s position as the nation’s largest sports betting network.”

VSiN officially returns to SiriusXM on Jan. 17 via channel 158 on both Sirius and XM devices. There’s been no word yet on a show schedule, but it will likely mirror VSiN’s existing schedule that is disseminated via its own live streaming platform.

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The Tom Kent Radio Network Shutters Operations

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The Tom Kent Radio Network officially halted its operations at the end of 2024 following Tom Kent‘s passing in June 2023.

In 2002, Kent launched his career in the syndication industry by establishing the TKO Radio Network. He took the helm as host of the evening Oldies program, “Hall of Fame Coast to Coast,” and the weekly show, “Into The 70s,” focused on the 1970s.

In 2007, Tom Kent decided to sell his company and step down from the network. However, in 2008, he launched the “Tom Kent Radio Network” (TKRN), which has since claimed over 600 affiliates.

Among the network’s offerings are the Classic Hits “24/7 Fun” network, where Kent hosts the afternoon slot, the nightly program “Tom Kent Music Magazine,” and the custom-tracked “TK Daily Download.”

Kent also hosts several weekly shows, including “My 70’s Show,” “Lovin’ Life, Livin’ the 80’s,” “Totally 90s Show,” “TK2K,” “The Classic Hits Countdown,” and “The Ultimate Party with Tom Kent.”

Two of Kent’s three children, Steve Kent and Jackie Newton, hosted programs on the Tom Kent Radio Network. The network also includes a morning show anchored by Bill Shannon and “Powerline with Brother Jon Rivers.”

Since Kent’s passing, the network has featured best-of clips highlighting his contributions.

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