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Cumulus Promotes Keith Liesmann To Arkansas Regional VP

Cumulus Media has announced the promotion of Little Rock Market Manager Keith Liesmann to the newly created position of Arkansas Regional Vice President adding oversight of their Fayetteville and Fort Smith clusters. Liesmann has been with Cumulus Little Rock since 2015 after previously serving as VP/Market Manager for the company in Topeka KS from 2005 […] […]

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Radio One Appoints Erwin 'Katt D' Hill As Raleigh OM

Radio One has announced the appointment of Erwin ‘Katt D’ Hill as Operations Manager of their Raleigh/Durham cluster. Hill has been with the company’s Atlanta cluster since 2003 where he has served as APD/MD at Adult R&B “Magic 97.5/107.5” WUMJ/WAMJ since 2009 and Program Director of R&B Oldies “Classix 102.9” since its launch in December […] […]

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When Hip-Hop Ruled Seattle Radio: KUBE’S First and Last Episodes

As a rookie radio journalist in the mid-’80s, I wrote an article for Radio & Records about markets where I felt the Urban format could flourish on FM. One of them was Seattle, and that prompted a quizzical call from a radio-station general manager in that market. Surely, I understood that there was a minimal […] […]

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Rameen Madani Promoted To KMXP/KZZP Program Director

iHeartMedia has announced the promotion of Rameen Madani to Program Director of Hot AC “Mix 96.9” KMXP Phoenix and CHR “104.7 Kiss-FM” KZZP Mesa. Madani has served as Assistant Program Director/Music Director of the two stations since April 2018. He previously programmed Hot AC “My 92.9” KMIY and was APD of CHR “93.7 KRQ” KRQQ […] […]

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iHeartRadio App Adds Talkback Feature

iHeartRadio has announced that it has added a “Talkback” feature into the app to enable listeners to send messages directly to the enabled stations. The feature will only work for participating iHeartMedia owned stations on the iOS and Android apps replicating a feature available on other app platforms to complement or replace phone and text […] […]

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Draper Media Makes Multiple Changes In Salisbury/Ocean City As OC104 Signs Off

With the closing of the sale of the station from Adams Radio Group to Draper Media, the CHR “OC104” 103.9 WOCQ Berlin/Ocean City MD brand has come to an end. Draper purchased WOCQ and Oldies “Kool Oldies 104.3/105.1” W282AW Salisbury/W286BB Ocean Pines MD in December for $550,000. That acquisition followed the purchase of Rock “93.5 […] […]