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iHeartMedia has announced a series of market leadership promotions in Salt Lake City. Judy Copier has risen to Market President succeeding the retiring Stu Stanek. She has served as Senior VP/Sales for the past ten years after stints at KUTV-TV and local agencies. Joyce Wirthlin rises to SVP/Sales to succeed Copier. Wirthlin has been with […] […]

SiriusXM and subsidiaries Pandora and Stitcher have announced a number of programming initiatives in honor of June being Black Music Month. SiriusXM will launch three limited-run channels. “Black Music Forever Radio” (channel 105) brings the Pandora playlist to their platform with current hits from Black artists in Pop, Hip-Hop and R&B. The brand will also […] […]

Audacy and Radio America have announced an agreement to bring Dana Loesch’s “The Dana Show” to eleven of the company’s stations. In six markets Loesch will take the 12-3pm eastern timeslot that had been held by the Rush Limbaugh Show. Those stations are “Talk 980” KMBZ Kansas City, 840 KXNT Las Vegas, 1140/96.1 WRVA Richmond, […] […]

SummitMedia has flipped Variety Hits “99.5 Jack-FM” W258CB Greenville/107.3 WJMZ-HD3 Anderson to 1980s Hits “Awesome 99.5“. The move expands SummitMedia’s recently launched brand to a third market following launches in Richmond and Knoxville. The station shares the same “Totally 80s and More” positioning as its predecessors. The move takes W258CB out of direct format competition […] […]

Vanguard Media has flipped Classic Hits “Sunny 101.3” KRKE-FM Albuquerque to Classic Hip Hop “101.3 The Hustle“. Positioning as “Pure Hip Hop”, the move is the second format shift for the station in a year as it segued from Soft AC to Classic Hits last year. The move positions KRKE-FM against iHeartMedia Rhythmic AC “Hot […] […]

Townsquare Media has announced the appointment of John DiLeo as Market President/Chief Revenue Officer for its Danbury CT stations. DiLeo joins Townsquare from Hearst Connecticut Media’s local newspaper group where he was Vice President of Local Sales since July 2017. He has also held sales leadership roles at DNAInfo.com in New York, Digital First Media […] […]