Many of today's broadcasters grew up running Sunday morning programming like "PowerLine", "MasterControl" and "Country Crossroads", produced in Dallas by the Southern Baptist Radio & Television Commission. But over time the denomination has cut back, partly because of cost, and a decision to merge the commission with the Mission Board. Now the Dallas Morning News says the group's selling its last TV and satellite radio operations to In Touch Ministries of Atlanta. Read Sam Hodges' DMN story here.

Jerry Del Core will oversee the company's seven-station cluster in Austin as its new VP/Market Manager. He previously served as VP/Market Manager for Clear Channel in Atlanta and Sacramento. In Texas, he'll manage Regional Mexican KHHL, which is among the market's top ten stations, as well as CHR/Rhythmic KXBT, Latin Pop KXXS, Spanish Oldies KXTZ, Regional Mexican KFON, Spanish Religious outlet KELG and News/Talk KOKE.

We are looking for a person who loves radio and can research and confirm news quickly, understands broadcast terminology, the inner workings of the industry, and has a love for all formats and areas of the business. A background in radio, as well as knowledge of broadcast engineering and/or the FCC is a plus. Please send a resume and cover letter detailing why you are perfect for this job to: Dana Hall, Executive Editor, Radio-Info.com, at danahall@in3media.com. You should have knowledge of radio, some writing ability, and be Internet savvy.

Les Moonves was aggressively determined to show Wall Street - and boss Sumner Redstone - that CBS wasn't the "slow-growth media company" everybody cast it as, when it split off from Viacom at the start of 2006. Now Moonves raises the dividend to shareholders for a fifth time, and he's also starting a program to buy back as much as $1.6 billion of "CBS" stock." The dividend's payable on October 1, to shareholders of record as of September 14. But the stock price didn't exactly shoot up in Tuesday's trading, so don't be surprised if Moonves has other ideas up his sleeve.

The dollars from off-air events like station-sponsored concerts and from web-related sources are beginning to mount up. Radio Advertising Bureau CEO Jeff Haley says the average 10% growth clip for the last two years should produce about $1.5 billion for 2008 "and approach $2 billion by the end of 2009." Haley's shining a flashlight on the brighter part of radio's revenue picture through the first six months of 2007. Every other category - local, national, network - was off about 1% for the half-year and off about 2% for April-June. Read the RAB's analysis of what's happening here.

Greater Media's adult hits WBOS Boston has added George Knight to mornings, as of September 4. The WBOS website is announcing that the new "All Music Mornings" will also include news from WGBH, as well as "The 9 O'Clock Express."

Drudge's Sunday evening syndicated show was picked up by Premiere, from ABC, several years ago, and now Clear Channel-owned Premiere Radio finds his successor in-house, at WLW, Cincinnati. Programming exec Sean Compton says "We hate seeing Matt step down, but fortunately for us, we've got the perfect replacement available", in WLW's Bill Cunningham. He takes over Sunday nights starting October 7. Will the new national show affect Bill's local show? They're talking about it on Radio-Info's Cincinnati board. ##discussit##

Thanks to the 50-kw nighttime signal of clear channel WOWO, Ft. Wayne, its personalities were known throughout the Midwest and beyond, and Bob Sievers was part of the family (and eventually host of The Little Red Barn morning show) from the time he started there in high school until he retired in 1987 at age 70. Sievers ("SEE-vers") was by all accounts the same friendly, earnest guy off the air that he was on, and Ft. Wayne's Channel 21/33 newsroom does its tribute (including video) here. Discuss Sievers here - ##discussit##

The Washington State Democrat - and personal fan of Internet radio - says "there has to be a business model that allows creative webcasters to thrive", and he says it appears the latest model "removes all the oxygen from this space." Inslee was the original sponsor of the Internet Radio Equality Act, which has been sidelined since SoundExchange agreed to offer less punishing rates to smaller operators. But Inslee tells the Kitsap, WA Sun that he knows some boutique operators have already shut down because they can't keep up with even the reduced rates - and promises "this won't get swept under the rug." Read the Sun article here.

Most major-market talkshow hosts were enjoying a day off for Labor Day - but not WGN, Chicago's Kathy & Judy, who aimed to "have a listener who's going into labor, deliver on the air." It's not what union organizers who proposed Labor Day in the late 19th century had in mind - but the working women of those days would've applauded (even if the word "dilation" was unfit for polite company). The Sun-Times' Robert Feder reports the Kathy & Judy stunt.

That employee is also its 61-year-old owner, former financial planner Harry Grothjahn. He tells the Knoxville News-Sentinel that God told him to take the chance in 1995 to buy the 1470 in Blount County, TN and run it as "Truth Radio." He does use syndicated programming, but Harry does all the local hosting, ad sales and yes, even sweeping and vaccuming. No Labor Day time off for Harry - as you can see in the newspaper feature.

"Crazy" Howard McGee, the long time morning man at Clear Channel urban WGCI Chicago, who was just released in August, will do a fill in week for Radio One urban WPHI Philadelphia PD/pm driver Colby Colb, while he's on vacation next week. This reunites McGee with Elroy Smith, his former PD at WGCI, and now OM at Radio One Philadelphia.

Progressive talk WWTQ officially becomes WSMB "Fox Sports Radio 680" after Saturday evening's St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds game. The Fox Sportnet will air weekdays from Midnight to 11am, and 2pm to midnight, as well as midnight to 6 a.m. and Noon to midnight on weekends.

After stunting with "Bob & Tom all-the-time," or at least for the day, Clear Channel took rock WFBX "94.5 the Fox" Panama City, FL, to FM Talk as WFLA-FM. That was on Friday, and this new station will compete directly with Magic Broadcasting's WYOO-FM - which tied for third 12+ in the Spring 2007 Arbitrons.

Just a couple of days ago, Jim Coursolle-led Armada paid the family of Robert Ingstad $9.5 million for eight stations in southwestern Kansas, and now it commits $4.5 million for these west-central Nebraska stations from Mary Quass-run NRG/Waitt. The quartet is talk KODY (1240) and country KXNP (103.5) in North Platte, and oldies KUVR (1380) and adult hits "Bob" KMTY (97.7). Brokerage credits are split between Kalil & Co. for seller NRG and American Media Services for buyer Armada.