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Seven Mountains Media’s market revamps have reached Lebanon PA. News/Talk 1270 WLBR moved to Christmas Music on November 30 ahead of a post-Christmas format change. Laura LeBeau remains in mornings from the previous format. The move continues the company’s trend of removing spoken word formats from each of its markets as WLBR was the last […] […]

Indian River State College has dropped its Classical format on 91.1 WQCP Fort Pierce FL and is currently stunting with “Soulful Sounds of the Season” with R&B heavy Christmas music while promoting that “The New 91.1 is coming soon.” A move to Adult R&B would potentially fill the hole that is about to be created […] […]

Cumulus Media has announced the promotion of Collin Jones to President of Westwood One starting January 1. Jones has been with Cumulus since 2011 first as Director of Corporate Development and Strategy before rising to SVP and then Executive Vice President leading the company’s strategy, corporate development (including major partnerships and M&A), and investor relations […] […]

Chicago Public Media has announced that Matt Moog will step down as CEO upon the hiring of his successor. Moog originally joined the organization as a member of their Board of Directors in 2010 and became CEO in 2020. During his tenure he oversaw the acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper to join Public News/Talk […] […]

iHeartMedia has announced a restructuring of its Markets Group. The company currently splits its local operations into three divisions, Region, Metro and Community based on market size and common needs/characteristics. The company has announced the following changes among them: The following have been promoted to Division President: New York Market President Bernie Weiss and Dallas […] […]

Longtime Wichita programmer and personality Jack Oliver debuted this morning on Murfin Media’s “Classic Hits 92.7” KWME Wellington/Wichita. Oliver “retired” from Audacy’s competing Classic Hits 103.7 KEYN in June after nineteen years with the station as Program Director mostly in afternoons before moving to mornings in 2020. His career began in Wichita in 1969 before […] […]