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Sales assistant Lisa Marie Presslaff adds title of "F10 Hitter" (log merger) for KREK-HD2 in Wrecked Train-San Antonio...Present 6-10pm jock Marathon Mike at WURC/Fingerbone, Wisconsin lives up to his name and segues to the noon-midnight shift, as three air staffers "retire"...Talk hosts Dr. Gene Eology and cousin Meredith Baxter-Gurney abandon their own self-help shows and bond to form "The Advice Squad," as they also join in wedded bliss (Congrats!), TalkRight Networks to handle syndication...Ennui again demotes from within and gives cluster GM duties in Des Moines to former Radio Division President Dilbert Stepaside...Former Ennui Des Moines market chief Lou Zinnarass works out his contract by voicetracking weekends on country KHRZ (K-Cow)...Former Ennui Des Moines weekend voicetracker Lowantha Totempole departs to "form her own company"...Ennui re-states company pledge to "Never fire anybody important" in monthly email to employees...CCC reported "furious" at David Letterman for his "You know you've been screwed by CCC when---" top ten list...Ten year-MD L.N. Keller of WHUH/Silent Springs, PA named "Director of Music Operations" in lieu of raise...Former WVJJ/Thighs Gap, Virginia PD Pegleg Hopkins to appear on "Dancing With The Stars" this week...More as we hear it here at A.T.E.!....