» Those Federal News Types Are Hot! The website MediaBistro.com's "Fishbowl DC" is polling users on who they think are the hottest female media types in the nation's capitol. Bonneville/Washington VP News and Programming Jim Farley checks in to update us on the voting which currently shows WFED, "Federal News Radio" reporter Amy Morris leading the voting by a substantial margin in the just-for-fun poll. Check it out and cast your vote to support the lone DC radio reporter included on the list of nominees HERE.

» Murder, She Spoke:Talk radio veterans will recall the eerie phone call to Westwood One's Tom Leykis Show back in 2006 during which a female caller confessed she'd killed her ex-boyfriend over failure to give her child support and then lied to police, telling them it was a suicide. "You shot him?" Leykis asked the caller. "You shot him dead?" "Oh yes, I did," replied the woman. Leykis then told the woman he would use her phone number to turn her into the police, but the woman replied, "But people call in and make up stories all the time, Tom." Police are now seeking to file charges against a Phoenix woman suspected in the shooting after comparing voice prints of Megan Suzanne Vice reading a transcript of the call alongside the call made to Leykis' radio show. You can hear the original conversation between Leykis and the now suspect HERE.

» Talk Management Triple Play: A trio of veteran programmers have been given new assignments this week. At Clear Channel/Phoenix OM Smokey Rivers has added programming duties for News/Talker KFYI to his daily duties, while in Omaha Journal Broadcasting has upped Mark Todd to OM for the cluster that includes "Big Sports 590" KXSP. And at the newly merged Sirius XM Radio longtime Talk programmer Jeremy Coleman is given a vote of confidence from CEO Mel Karmazin who names Coleman to the satcaster's new management team as SVP/Talk and Entertainment.

» AP Launches Celebrity Extra: The Associated Press ramps up its entertainment news coverage with the debut of the new service that focuses on "A-list stars." A video version launched this week, with a photo version scheduled to debut in September. The focus of Celebrity Extra is on people vs. events and is a result of a multi-million dollar investment in new staff and state-of-the-art video production technology in Los Angeles, New York and London. "Entertainment is a significant growth area - particularly for visual images of the top stars," says Dan Becker, AP Director/Entertainment Content. "We bring a unique combination of video, photos and text to the market, providing coverage with a global reach." Learn more HERE.

New Career? Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett guest hosted on KDKA/Pittsburgh today where he filled-in for Marty Griffin on the CBS Radio News/Talker. Giving and getting some broadcasting tips just before hitting the air are (l-r): KDKA morning co-host Larry Richert, Corbett and morning co-host John Shumway.