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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Making Moves: Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Making Moves

Cox Radio’s country “K92” WWKA-FM, Orlando cuts morning host & market mainstay Doc Holliday. No replacement named … Radio-Info confirms that Roger Piper is out as GSM of NextMedia’s five-station cluster in Aurora-Chicago area. Brian Duggan is handling GSM duties for WERV-FM (95.9) “The River” TFN … Oldies WWYW-FM (103.9) in Dundee, Illinois outside of Chicago drops Jim Shea after five years as morning host. Afternoon host Jeff James will flip to mornings, and syndicated programming is expected to be heard in afternoons … In Tampa, news/talk WWBA-AM (820) drops the syndicated Dave Ramsey. Both local host Chris Markowski and the syndicated Michael Smerconish in afternoons add an extra hour to cover – Discuss it … Longtime sports radio play-by-play announcer Bob Barry, who was calling Oklahoma University football games when John F. Kennedy was President, says he will end his 50 years in radio calling Oklahoma Sooners football and men’s basketball teams when this season ends … After 32 years as a member of the senior management team at Santa Monica, California’s non-commercial KCRW-FM (89.9), Will Lewis is retiring from the board, but will serve as media consultant for Santa Monica College … Envision Radio Networks adds Charleston, South Carolina’s WIWF-FM (96.9) “The Wolf” as the newest affiliate of Imaging Chop Shop … Congratulations to Atlanta’s WSB (750/95.5) – they raised a record $1.43 million in pledges in last week’s 37-hour Care-a-Thon for the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

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