News

Derrick Martin is iHeart's new St. Louis Region President overseeing 33 radio stations. That puts Martin in charge of all of iHeart's brands in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids/Iowa City and Davenport, Iowa, and St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri. He'll report to Tom McConnell, President of the Midwest/Southeast Division for iHeartMedia.

That's according to the latest data from Kagan and due mostly to the Entercom/CBS merger which was announced in February. The Entercom/CBS Radio Reverse Morris Trust tax-free transaction is valued at $2.86 billion. Kagan says at a 7X forward seller’s multiple, the 29 AM and 88 FM stations account for $2.5 billion, making this the largest radio transaction since 2006.

Morgan Bohannon is the new VP/Market Manager for Cumulus' four-station group in Memphis. He replaces Alan Kirshbom, who left four months ago to go back to Austin for family reasons. Bohannon joins Cumulus s from iHeartMedia where he was Area President in Memphis. Bohannon worked for iHeart and Clear Channel for over 20 years.

Salem's Washington, D.C. VP/GM David Ruleman is retiring at the end of June. In addition to his D.C. role, Ruleman has served for many years as a Regional VP of Operations with oversight of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Boston. During his 31 years with Salem, Ruleman has provided operational oversight during the acquisition of more than of 20 stations in nine markets.

He was let go by CBS Chicago in December. Monday, iHeartMedia hired Jeff Kapugi as Region Senior VP of Programming for Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. iHeartMedia’s Washington, D.C. Region includes HOT 99.5, 97.1 WASH-FM, DC101, 98.7 WMZQ, BIG 100 and Cherry Blossom Radio in D.C. and 93.1 WPOC, Z104.3, 102.7 JACK-FM in Baltimore.

Cox Media Group in Jacksonville has named Jacque’ Freeman Local Sales Manager. CMG Jacksonville includes News 104.5 WOKV, Hot 99.5, Easy 106.5 WHJX, 95.1 WAPE, The Eagle 96.9 WJGL, Power 106.1 WJGLHD2, and X102.9 WXXJ.

This case has been going on for over a year. Wells appeared on WLW in Cincinnati as a legal analyst. In January 2016, troopers say she had pills on the front seat of her car and in her purse during a search at a traffic stop. She was later indicted on four felony counts of possession of amphetamines and Oxycodone.

It’s a homecoming for Milwaukee native Joe Krauss who joins B93.3 (WLDB-FM) as its new morning radio personality. Krauss, who will go by “Joe” on the air, started April 3 and will be heard Monday through Friday, 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. He comes to B93.3 from CBS Radio’s Q104 (WQAL-FM) in Cleveland.

The Radio Hall of Famer came out of retirement for just four hours to guest host The Bob and Tom Show, which was in Cincinnati for the Reds Opening Day broadcast. The show was broadcast from JACK Casino in downtown Cincinnati, and hosted by longtime affiliate WOFX-FM.

Arm & Hammer comes from nowhere and enters the Media Monitors weekly chart at number five after airing 27,838 commercials on radio stations all across the country last week. The big question is will the company now become a consistent radio advertiser?