CBS Radio EVP of Operations Scott Herman says "During his long and distinguished radio career, Harvey has just about done it all." This is a return to CBS Radio for Wells, who started as a jock at adult alternative WXRT (93.1) in 1975 and by 1979 was managing WXRT and later its sister all-sports "Score" WSCR. He left CBS in 2004 to help run Fred Eychaner's Newsweb media group, as it expanded its radio holdings to nine stations. He departed from Newsweb when his contract was up in early 2010 and started an ad agency. But mainly, he tells Robert Feder at Time Out Chicago, "I took some time off to re-charge my batteries." He's now agreed to re-join CBS after seven years to run the Riverside, CA cluster that includes the "K-Frog" country simulcast of KFRG (95.1) and KXFG (92.9). Wells is succeeding Kevin Murphy, who announced in mid-May that he'd be leaving CBS and the radio industry. Harvey says "I didn't realize how much I was going to miss" radio.