John Cravens Exits ESPN's WMVP, Chicago.  He'd been in management at ESPN sports talk O&O WMVP for the past 10 years but now John Cravens is out as vice president and general manager of the property.  Chicago media writer Robert Feder reports Cravens' history with the station: general sales manager for four years until being boosted to VP/GM in 2009.  Feder also writes that, although sources have confirmed his ouster, neither side is commenting and it's uncertain whether his position will be filled or whether his duties will be picked up by others in the organization.  According to figures from Miller, Kaplan, Arase, WMVP's revenue dipped more than 11% from 2013 to 2014.  Read Feder's story here.

Round One of October PPM Ratings Released.  The first of four rounds of October 2015 PPM data from Nielsen Audio is released for 12 markets including: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island), Riverside, San Jose, and Middlesex-Somerset-Union (New Jersey).  You can find all the 6+ numbers from subscribing stations here.  Additionally, TALKERS and RadioInfo managing editor Mike Kinosian provides his Twelve Takeaways from this round of data at our sister publication's site here.  The October 2015 PPM survey covered September 10 through October 7.

2016 Presidential Race, European Migrant Crisis/U.S. Immigration Policy, U.S. Patrols South China Sea, Congressional Budget Deal, Russia's Syria Campaign/U.S. Syria-ISIS Policy, OSU Homecoming Parade Tragedy, and NFL Action Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (10/26). The activities of the candidates for president in 2016; the ongoing migrant crisis in Eastern Europe and the United States' policy on immigration; China's warning to the U.S. about its patrol near disputed islands in the South China Sea; the tentative two-year budget deal agreed to by Republicans and Democrats in Congress; the Russian military campaign in Syria and the U.S.'s military policy in the region; the deadly accident that took the lives of four and injured dozens at the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade on Saturday; and the weekend's NFL games were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS.

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