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Radio’s Best & Worst: February 8, 2012
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending February 8, 2012. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Station (Online)Smash Radio – Clear Channel’s iHeart Radio teams with Comcast XFINITY for the timeliest station of th…
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Making Moves: Thursday, December 29, 2011
WHAM (1180) “News Radio” Rochester increases its local news programming. The station will expand the “5 O’Clock News Hour” to a full two hours, rebranding it as “The WHAM Afternoon News” … The Houston Chronicle is reporting that News/Talk KILT (610) Houston drops the syndicated Jim Rome show, replacing it with the local MAD radio, hosted by Mike Me…
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Radio Programmers ‘Root’ For Eli Young Band
With “Crazy Girl,” the Eli Young Band recently scored its first No. 1 hit more than 10 years into the band’s career.
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Radio Remembers: Texas Radio Hall of Famer Richard Mock; Georgia's Jim Steele
Richard Mock worked in a number of markets, including Dallas and Houston, along with stops in San Diego and Kansas City. The stations included KCMO-AM (710) in Kansas City, KFMB-AM (760) in San Diego, KILT-AM (610) in Houston and KLIF-AM (570) in Dallas.
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The NFL Houston Texans sign a long-term deal to stay on KILT-AM/FM
The Houston Texans have had their games heard on flagship sports KILT-AM (610) & country KILT-FM (100.3) since they became a professional football franchise in 2002. As a part of the deal, CBS Radio's "SportsRadio 610" will continue to broadcast three-hour pregame and postgame shows before and after every Texans game, as well as over 15 hours of de…
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Radio’s Best & Worst, June 23, 2011
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending June 23, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or another) capacity are asterisked.*Station (FM)WFXC (Foxy 107) Raleigh, N.C. – Long before PPM came to the Research Triangle, the heritage Urban AC (which go…
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Making Moves in Sports
The Houston Rockets have re-upped with CBS Radio's KILT-AM (610) by signing a contract extension, KILT's keeping radio play-by-play and color analyst Craig Ackerman & Joel Blank behind the mic ... In San Francisco, former ESPN Radio Doug Gottlieb Show producer Jeremiah Crowe joins sports KBWF-FM (95.7) as executive producer ...
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Radio Remembers: South Dakota's Martin Busch; "Big Ben" Laurie
He was considered "The father of South Dakota Public Broadcasting": Martin Busch got his start in radio working as the PD of KUSD-AM in the 1950s, and from there also worked in TV. He never wavered from his belief that everyone, especially children, should have access to educational programming.
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Making Moves: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Texas Radio Hall of Famer and country KILT-FM (100.3) afternoon host Rowdy Yates is leaving, and will relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where his wife was recently transferred. He will continue to host his Westwood One-syndicated "Country Gold" show ...
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Meris To Join KILT Houston As APD/MD
CBS Radio's Country KILT-FM Houston has hired Brooke Meris as APD/MD and night jock, effective April 6. She arrives from CHR WZRT Rutland, Vt., where she was PD.
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Making Moves: Thursday, December 16, 2010
After more than 20 years on Lansing, Michigan airwaves, Citadel's classic rock WMMQ-FM (94.9) has cut loose morning host Rich Michaels, with the station saying they are moving "in a different direction" ... Adam Stubbs is out after a 16-year run on Richmond, Virginia's WTVR-FM (98.1) & news/talk WRVA-AM (1140), writing on Facebook that "the party's…
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Making Moves: Friday, December 10, 2010
In Chicago, Bonneville-owned WTMX-FM (101.9) "The Mix" has taken evening DJ Jeff Corder out of the mix, posting on his website, "After more than 13yrs of living the dream in my hometown at one of the best radio stations in the country, they have decided to go in a different direction at night" ... CBS Radio may have some changes happening on San Fr…
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KILT Houston To Introduce New Morning Team Monday
CBS Radio's country KILT-FM (100.3) Houston has been without a permanent morning show since the last incarnation of the long running Hudson & Harrigan team exited in March. Now, VP of music programming Mark Adams has hired Corey Foley and Greg Thunder as the new morning team, debuting Nov.
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Mark Stevens, of the Dallas "Stevens & Pruett" show, has died
In an earlier gig, Mark Stevens was part of “Hudson & Harrigan” on Houston’s KILT, and Radio-Info.com Dallas-board poster Steve Eberhart recalls that “his roots are in Fort Worth”, when he did various airshifts on KFJZ/1270 in the 1960s as “Marky Baby.” By the 1980s he was part of the famous “Stevens & Pruett” morning show on rock “Eagle 97.1” KEGL… Read More
Greg Frey joins the corporate programming team for Cumulus Media
Greg Frey’s strong suit is country music, most recently serving as APD/MD for CBS Radio’s country KILT-FM (100.3) in Houston. He also held the same duties for the company’s AC sister-station KHMX-FM (96.5), and prior to that, worked for country KSON-FM (97.3) in San Diego.
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KILT Houston APD/MD Greg Frey To Step Down
Country KILT-FM Houston APD/MD Greg Frey will be stepping
down from the job. His last day will be Oct.
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Meet Mark Adams, KILT Houston’s New Head Honcho
While his radio career may have started out accidentally, Mark
Adams—now CBS Radio’s VP of music
programming for Houston—has steadily worked his way up through the industry,
turning accidental into a deliberate career choice in an industry he remains
passionate about.
Garrison Named OM For CBS Phoenix; Gillette Tapped As KZON PD
Radio programming veteran Jeff Garrison (pictured) has been named operations manager for CBS Radio’s three-station Phoenix cluster: country KMLE-FM, oldies KOOL-FM and rhythmic CHR KZON-FM, effective immediately. He transfers from the company’s Houston cluster, where he had been PD of country KILT-FM as well as VP, programming for the company’s cou…
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Country Classics Make A Comeback... Or Did They Ever Really Go Away?
No matter how contemporary-sounding country music gets, its artists,
songwriters and executives never seem to forget the legendary singers
and songs that put the format on the map. A strategically chosen remake
of a classic country song has long been a staple on albums from current
acts, and often helps establish (or re-establish) that act’…
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Making Moves: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Radio-Info confirms that Las Vegas country KCYE-FM (102.7) “The Coyote” has cut loose morning co-host Tom Kelly. Rick Kelly remains solo in mornings – Discuss it … Former WGN-AM (720) Chicago “Noon Show” talk host Bob Sirott joins Fox-owned WFLD-TV as an anchor.
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