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SiriusXM has announced its plans for specialty programming for Women’s History Month including limited run channels dedicated to Lilith Fair, Avril Lavigne, Maren Morris & Tina Turner. In addition, channels will will dedicate weekends to female artists with programming dedicated to Queens of Pop, Queens of Rock, Women of Hip Hop, Women of Blues, Women […] […]

Coinciding with her fifteenth anniversary of her debut on the station, afternoon host Lux has announced she will be departing Hubbard Alternative “105.7 The Point” KPNT Collinville IL/St. Louis in May. Outside of ten months co-hosting mornings at then sister CHR “Now 96.3” KNOU in 2017, Lux has spent her entire radio career at KPNT […] […]

iHeartMedia Hip Hop “Real 92.3” KRRL Los Angeles has promoted DJ Amen to Assistant Program Director. DJ Amen joined KRRL when it launched in 2015 as a mixer and host of the Sunday evening “Young California Radio” before rising to Music Director in June 2019. He previously worked as a mixer for the company’s 106.1 […] […]

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 […] […]

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 […] […]

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 […] […]