After nearly four decades working with radio and television stations, broadcast attorney John Garziglia will retire at year-end. His firm, Womble Bond Dickinson, said media attorney Reid Avett, who recently joined the firm, will pick up many of the clients that Garziglia has represented through the years. Read more

The new Chicago White Sox broadcast team on Good Karma Brands sports “ESPN 1000” WMVP will include Len Kasper, who for the past 16 years has been calling games for the crosstown Chicago Cubs on TV. Kasper will serve as play-by-play announcer, joining longtime analyst Darrin Jackson in the booth as games move to WMVP with the 2021 MLB season. Read more

The closures of Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country at the end of the year will result in the dismissal of all of the networks’ 36 full- and part-time employees. While the shuttering signals the end of an outlet that helped launch the careers of pop stars such as Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato, the dismantling of Radio Disney began a decade ago when parent The Walt Disney Co. began selling its broadcast radio portfolio. Read more

American University news/talk WAMU Washington (89.5) is the latest public broadcaster to unionize. Station content creators voted unanimously to recognize SAG-AFTRA as their union. The newly formed bargaining unit will be made up of 80 employees, including hosts, reporters, producers, editors and engineers who create content for all areas of the station. Read more

One of free-form radio’s pioneering air personalities, Jimmy Rabbitt, 79, died Nov. 25, at home in Grand Junction, Colorado. An influence on such early FM rock radio jocks as KLOS’s Geno Michellini, Rabbitt would, half-jokingly, refer to his career of working at more than 500 radio stations and 10,000 honkytonk. Writer Ed Kociela chronicles his restless radio and music career in this piece penned for Inside Radio. Read more

Longtime Vanderbilt University football and men’s basketball play-by-play announcer Joe Fisher has resigned and checked himself into rehab following an on-air appearance where he was slurring and repeating questions. “As of this morning I am checking myself into a rehab facility to address an issue I’ve struggled with for a long time,” Fisher wrote on Twitter, adding “I have resigned my position at Vanderbilt effective immediately.” Read more

The syndicated “Ace & TJ” return to WJMX-FM Florence, SC… Cumulus Media’s Mary Berner and iHeartMedia’s Thea Mitchem and Marissa Morris appear on Billboard’s 2020 Women In Music Executives list… Univision’s Uforia launches the month-long “Lo Mejor del 2020” (The Best of 2020) … CBS Audio holiday special to be hosted by Gil Gross. Read more

The prospects of a deadlocked FCC may sound like an exercise in frustration for the regulators who serve there. But Republican Brendan Carr says he would welcome such a situation at the agency to prevent the Democrats from changing course when the Biden administration takes office. Carr says it would “help forestall what really would be billions of dollars’ worth of economic damage that a Democrat FCC would look to jam through from day one.” Read more

With nearly five hundred programs under its banner, the iHeartPodcast Network has become one of the biggest producers of content in the podcast industry. But with a portfolio that extensive, it can be difficult to sell all the advertising for every show – even with a large sales team. The ability to monetize the so-called “longtail” is what iHeart executives say was the driving force behind the company’s recent acquisition of Voxnest. Read more