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WMAL Washington veteran Bill Trumbull dies at 77
Trumbull spent nearly half life at WMAL (630), most of in afternoon drive. He was originally part of "Two for the Road', which with new partner Chris Core became "Trumbull & Core." Trumbull spent 36 years at WMAL. Read More
Making Moves: Tuesday, December 20, 2011
As part of the Southwest Airlines acquisition of AirTran, Sirius XM will get the boot off the airline service starting Feb. 28, 2012.
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Making Moves: Thursday, October 27, 2011
Washington, DC's news/talk WMAL-AM/FM (630/105.9) promotes Heather Smith to executive producer of the "Morning Majority" morning show ... In McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the legendary 93-year old WEDO-AM (810) host Porky Chedwick announced after a 63-year run that he will be hanging up his headphones ...
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Making Moves: Tuesday, October 11, 2011
In St. Louis, weekender Selena moves up to middays on Clear Channel Urban AC
KMJM “Majic 104.9." She’s also been heard on gospel sister
KATZ-AM ...
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Making Moves: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Clear Channel's Harlington, Texas KHKZ-FM (106.3) afternoon host/MD Hitman adds more work to his day, becoming PD of sister-station KQXX-FM (105.5) "The X." Hitman will also be heard on KNCN-FM (101.3) in Corpus Christi ... Budget cuts at Buckley in Connecticut have cost WDRC-FM (102.9) host Larry Wells his job, replaced by Grahame Winters, accordi…
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Andy Parks returns to Washington, DC radio
The longtime host of "Grandy & Andy" on Washington, DC's WMAL (630) left the news/talk station in March 2010, ending his 25-year partnership with former Iowa Rep. Fred Grandy after the station decided to go in a different direction in mornings. Read More
Making Moves: Monday, August 1, 2011
Political pollster Scott Rasmussen is now a talk show host, airing shows on Washington's WMAL (630) and Chicago's WLS-AM (890) ... Another day - another hire by Merlin Media, this time Orlando, Florida's news/talk WFLF (540 / 94.5) journalist Michelle Murillo.
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Bill Hess is promoted to Program Director at Citadel's DC talker, WMAL (630)
The veteran had been serving under multi-market ops director Drew Hayes as APD, since he joined last August. Now Hayes, also responsible for Citadel's talk WLS, Chicago (890), recognizes Hess for his "central role in the strategizing and development of the WMAL lineup since joining us last Summer." Hayes says Hess "shares the vision of a re-energ… Read More
Making Moves: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Radio-Info confirms that former Washington, DC WMAL-AM (630) reporter Jen Richter is going across town to CBS Radio's WIAD-FM (94.7) as the morning producer/sidekick for Tommy McFly's new "The Tommy Show" ... Also going across town, or in this case across the hall in Indianapolis, is Deacon.
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Making Moves: Thursday, June 16, 2011
Boston's classic hits WROR-FM (105.7) adds Boston Herald writer Lauren Beckham Falcone to the Loren & Wally morning show, replacing news announcer Sue Cope, who relocated to Cleveland ... The Chicago Tribune is hiring former Joliet, Illinois WCCQ-FM (98.3) GM Robert
Channick to be their new media
reporter, with a beat that includes Windy City r…
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Making Moves: Monday, June 6, 2011
In Tampa, former WXTB-FM (97.9) DJ Scott LeGere has a new job, handling middays following Bubba the Love Sponge on crosstown rival "98 Rock" WHPT-FM (102.5) "The Bone." Scott writes on his Facebook page "Happy, Grateful and full on PUMPED am I ! Time to CELEBRATE" ...
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Washington, D.C. talker WMAL (630) debuts new "Morning Majority" show
The reconstituted morning-show cast keeps Bryan Nehman, and adds two new co-hosts: former Fox News Channel and local Channel 5 TV reporter/anchor Brian Wilson. And current FNC contributor Mary Katharine Ham, who has been working with Tucker Carlson's "Daily Caller." WMAL programmer Bill Hess says Brian Wilson has spent a total of 25 years in the D.… Read More
Fred Grandy's Washington, D.C. non-compete with Citadel lasts through May '12
The reasons for the exit of the "Grandy Group" principal from talk WMAL (630) are in dispute, but his wife, Catherine Mann-Grandy, tells Fox News that the result is that he isn't allowed on the air in the D.C. market for another 14 months.
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"Mrs. Fred Grandy" speaks out about her husband's departure from WMAL-AM
It has been reported in a number of media outlets that one of the reasons former Washington, DC news/talk WMAL-AM (630) morning host Fred Grandy and the Citadel-owned station parted ways was because of some of the comments made on the show by Grandy's wife regarding Muslims and Islam. Silent until now, "Mrs Fred" as she was known to WMAL listeners …
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Citadel's WMAL, Washington says it "did not terminate Fred Grandy"
The talk station also says that "at no time has WMAL told [morning personality Fred Grandy] that he was not allowed to discuss his views on Islam over the air." WMAL (630) general manager Jeff Boden has faced criticism from some conservatives over charges that the host of "The Grandy Group" was told to muffle his talk about "radical Islam." Here is…
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Did an Islamic group aid in Fred Grandy's departure from WMAL?
A number of conservative websites are raising the issue that a pro-Islamic group may have had a hand in what they are calling a "force firing" of morning host Fred Grandy by Citadel's WMAL-AM (630) in Washington, DC, and are calling for a boycott of the station. According to Accuracy In Media's Cliff Kincaid, while the news/talk station claims he r…
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Fred Grandy exits WMAL, Washington's "Grandy Group", amid talk of politics
The actor and former House member is supposedly due to talk about what happened this morning as a guest on Baltimore talk station WCBM (680). His wife is also joining him, says DCRTV.com, and the topic may be radical Islam, and whether he was asked not to talk about it on Citadel's WMAL (630).
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Providence talker WPRO shifts John DePetro from mornings
The moves center around morning host John DePetro, who is looking to land a nationally syndicated show, according to the local website GoLocalProv.com. DePetro has recently been doing weekends on WPRO's Washington, DC sister-station WMAL-AM (630).
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Making Moves: Time-Change Weekend
Radio-Info confirms that longtime New York City newsman Cameron Swayze has announced he will be leaving his anchor slot on WCBS-AM (880), and as he says, we were always "really glad we could get together" ... Another veteran newsman is hanging up his headphones.
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KLIF, Dallas PD Paul Duckworth resigns due to health concerns
Paul Duckworth only took over as PD of Cumulus-owned news/talk KLIF-AM (570) in Dallas just two months ago, leaving Citadel’s WMAL-AM (630) in Washington, DC. Duckworth tells Radio-Info the decision had nothing to do with KLIF or Cumulus, but everything to do with his health.
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