Oma-Hot: Here are select Nielsen Audio Continuous Diary Measurement (CDM) ratings for January 2024 (three-month rolling average, 10/12/23-1/31/24) compared with November and December. Ranks (in parentheses) are among subscribers. Unless otherwise noted, all figures are Persons 12+, Monday-Sunday, 6am-midnight.

Grand Dame: The Grand Ole Opry has promoted Mgr./Marketing Nicole Judd to Assoc. Producer/Show Development; Dir./Opry Talent Scheduling & Logistics Gina Keltner to Assoc. Producer/Talent; and Coord./Talent Audrey McGrady to Mgr. "Nicole, Gina and Audrey are all uniquely equipped to excel in these roles and keep the Opry building toward its momentous 100th year next year and into its second century," says Exec. Producer Dan Rogers. Judd's former position is posted here.

Smack Talk: SmackSongs Coord./Creative Carly Sater has been elevated to Mgr./Creative. "Carly has continued to prove herself as a valuable member of our team over the last few years," says SVP/Publishing Lee Krabel. "She is constantly finding new ways to improve Smack and celebrate our writers." Sater joined the company in 2019 and rose to her most recent position in 2021 (CAT 8/26/21); reach her here.

It's Gonna Be May: The 59th Academy of Country Music Awards will stream live on Prime Video Thursday, May 16 from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, TX. Pre-sale tickets will be available to ACM A-List subscribers starting Wednesday (3/6) and general on-sale starts Friday (3/8) at 11am ET here.

iHeart Like A Truck: Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson are among the artists performing during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards, airing live from Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles April 1 on Fox and iHeart stations/app.

Tour Support: Justin Moore and Randy Houser's 12-city The Country Round Here Tonight tour kicks off in Charlotte Sept. 5 and wraps in Maryland Heights, MO Oct. 12. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (3/8) here. Watch the duo's surprise performance of "Should've Been A Cowboy" at Tootsie's here.

Bits & Pieces: Neuhoff/Decatur, IL & Springfield, IL raised a combined $201,658 during the clusters' two-day (2/21-22) St. Jude radiothon.

Audacy KILT/Houston morning co-host Erik Scott Smith won the 2024 Houston Rodeo Celebrity Goat Milking contest on March 2. He told Rodeo officials the secret to his win was to "make a lot of eye contact with the goats beforehand." Details here.

Contact Update: Former iHeartMedia KNIX/Phoenix morning co-host Ben Campbell (CAT 4/17/23) has joined Audacy Classic Hits WOMC/Detroit as part of the Joanne, Jason and Ben morning show under OM Tim Roberts. This is the first foray outside the Country format for Campbell in his 30-year career. Reach him here.

ICYMI: Keith Urban played a 30-minute pop-up performance at the Nashville airport.

Ronnie Dunn, Brothers Osborne, Don Henley, Jo Dee Messina and more performed during PBS' Austin City Limits Hall of Fame: Trisha Yearwood (3/2).

Anne Wilson made her morning TV debut on Fox & Friends' series Faith & Friends Weekend yesterday (3/3) with "Strong."

Wedding Belle: Big Loud CEO/Co-founder Seth England wed Back Blocks Music CEO/Founder Rakiyah Marshall March 1 at May River Chapel at Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton, SC. Congratulate England here and Marshall here.

The Voice season 19 finalist Ian Flanigan married Kelsey Charles Feb. 29 in Beaver Creek, CO. Flanigan tells People the location is where the couple first met.

Chronicle: Blackberry Smoke co-founder and drummer Brit Turner passed away Sunday (3/3) from brain cancer. He was 57. The Atlanta-based country-rock band was formed in 2000, hitting the Country chart in 2013 with the single "Pretty Little Lie." Turner was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2022. "If you had the privilege of knowing Brit on any level, you know he was the most caring, empathetic, driven and endearing person one could ever hope to meet," the band shared on social media. "Brit was Blackberry Smoke’s True North, the compass that instituted the ideology that will continue to guide this band." Information on services is forthcoming.

Country Radio Hall of Famer Arch Yancey passed away today (3/4). He was 88. Yancey's career began in 1955, when he bested his radio school classmate Johnny Cash for a job at WBIP/Booneville, MS. Three years later, Yancey landed at then-Top 40 KNUZ-AM/Houston. In 1966, he moved to then-Country KIKK, but returned to KNUZ-AM as PD/afternoons when it flipped to Country in 1973. Yancey spent a total of 31 years on the air and in programming in Houston before retiring in 1989. Yancey was named Gavin Country Personality of the Year in 1971 and ACM Personality of the Year in 1982. He was inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2006, and the Texas Radio Hall of Fame the following year. No word on services.

Country Aircheck Today Top 5: Here are the Top 5 songs for the week ending March 2, according to Mediabase 24/7.

1. CODY JOHNSON/The Painter (CoJo/Warner/WMN) 
2. WARREN ZEIDERS/Pretty Little Poison (Warner/WEA) 
3. KANE BROWN/I Can Feel It (RCA) 
4. HARDY/Truck Bed (Big Loud) 
5. THOMAS RHETT f/MORGAN WALLEN/Mamaw's House (Valory/Big Loud) 

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers: Here are the top point gainers for March 3 compared with the same day last week, according to Mediabase 24/7. 

1. KANE BROWN/I Can Feel It (RCA) +1195 points
2. JELLY ROLL/Halfway To Hell (BMG/Stoney Creek) +396 points
3. ASHLEY COOKE/Your Place (Big Loud) +376 points
4. BAILEY ZIMMERMAN/Where It Ends (Elektra/Warner/WEA) +362 points
5. OLD DOMINION f/MEGAN MORONEY/Can't Break Up Now (Columbia) +320 points

Tomorrow's Birthdays (3/5): Gabby Barrett, John Shanks, Aaron Barker, Rob Hatch, Levi Jessen.

Hello Sharkness, My Old Friend: Former BBRMG SVP/Promotion Carson James commemorates 66 No. 1s at the label group's CRS 2024 Decades Party. Pictured (l-r) are the label's Scotty O'Brien and Jon Loba, host Blair Garner, James and the label's Ken Tucker, Adrian Michaels, Shelley Hargis, Peter Strickland, Lee Adams and JoJamie Hahr.

Heaters Gonna Heat: Amazon Music Presents: Country Heat kicks off evening entertainment at CRS 2024. Pictured (front, l-r) are Lady A's Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott, Play It Again/Columbia’s Dylan Marlowe, Columbia's Ella Langley and the CRB's RJ Curtis; (middle, l-r) Lady A's Dave Haywood, Mercury's Josh Ross and 19 Recordings/Wheelhouse's Chayce Beckham; (back, l-r) Amazon Music's Sarah DeMarco, Emily Cohen Belote, Jenni Tay and Lauren Stellato.