WRXP (101.9 RXP)/New York is giving listeners the chance to win $1,000 every weekday morning in the month of October with the $1,000 Weezer Song of the Day. In addition to winning $1,000 cash, winners will also receive two tickets to the Sold Out MetroPCS Masquerade Presented by 101.9 RXP featuring Weezer. The Halloween concert will take place at the Hammerstein Ballroom and also include performances by Matt & Kim and PT Walkley.

Morning co-host Gary Allen is promoted at Active Rock KHTQ/Spokane to interim PD/MD, while Kris "Beavis" Siebers steps down to focus on other station duties. Beavis remains in middays.

Steve Allen exits the PD post at Classic Rock WJZW/Washington, D.C.

At Classic Rock KUFX/San Jose, the Greg Kihn morning show is less one player with the departure of Chris Jackson due to downsizing. 

Larry Jackson has been promoted to President, A&R Arista Records/EVP A&R, RCA Music Group. Jackson was previously SVP of A&R, RCA Music Group.

Jenni Sperandeo joins Shangri-La Music for National Radio Promo duties. Sperandeo most recently handled radio promotion for Razor & Tie.

Rush Limbaugh has confirmed that he has an offer on the table to buy the NFL's St. Louis Rams franchise. In a statement issued to his St. Louis affiliate KMOX, Limbaugh acknowledged that he and St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts are trying to buy the team, according to reports.

Six of the state's most distinguished broadcasting legends will be inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame on November 12. Immortalized at this year's reception will be: celebrated CBS News Sunday Morning anchor Charles Osgood, legendary CBS radio personality Harry Harrison, longtime WIVB News 4 reporter Marie Rice, Rochester morning radio fixture "Brother Wease," Syracuse TV/radio personality Rick Gary, and respected WGY radio host Don Weeks.

ABC News Radio in Washington D.C. and New York City has let go of about twenty staffers, according to multiple reports. While most cuts affected news writers and engineers, also cut were veteran managers Robert Garcia and Peter Salinger. The reporting staff remains the same and ABC is supplying the same number of newscasts and standing by to do breaking news.

Orbitcast reports that the iPhone app for the XM SkyDock will be released early next week, according to its sources. The SkyDock device is slated to be officially available in stores early next week too, possibly as early as October 11. The app allows for the usage of the SkyDock hardware, which can turn any iPhone or iPod Touch into an XM receiver.

Premiere Radio Networks announces the addition of the long running syndicated Country program The Crook & Chase Countdown. Premiere will assume distribution rights to the four-hour weekend radio program on October 10, and it will be available for air between 6 a.m. and 12 a.m. local time. The Crook & Chase Countdown will continue to be based in Nashville. Crook and Chase commented, "As you can tell from our superstar lineup every week, we continue to be fired up about delivering the best in Country music. That’s why we are so excited to be with the best, Premiere Radio Networks, as we continue our countdown tradition from the heart of Music Row."

Arbitron congratulates Comcast and Grupo Gallegos, Radio Grand Prize Winner, honored at the Multicultural Excellence Awards held at the 11th Annual ANA Multicultural and Diversity Conference in Phoenix, AZ. Arbitron worked closely with the ANA to introduce a new category in 2009 highlighting exceptional work in radio advertising.

Voice guy Rich VanSlyke inks a handful of new clients: Modern Rock KZND/Anchorage, News/Talk WRSC/State College, Classic Rock WMGX/Woodstock, VT, Classic Hits WFGR/Grand Rapids. RVS also did voice imaging for FMQB Productions' recent broadcast special, Inside Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue.

Former NAB Joint Board Chairman Donald Thurston, the long-time owner of Berkshire Broadcasting Corporation in New England, has passed away at the age of 79 after a battle with Parkinson's Disease. Thurston served as NAB Joint Board Chairman from 1977 to 1979.