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Cox Media Group has appointed Chris Crawford as assistant program director at Atlanta-based news station WSB (750 AM, 95.5 FM). Chris will work with the WSB team to support all aspects of the station's on-air and off-air strategic executions.

Beasley Media Group has named Rick Thomas Brand Manager of their Tampa cluster, which includes WLLD-FM, WQYK-FM, WRBQ-FM, WYUU-FM, WPBB-FM and WHFS-AM. Thomas will also program WQYK-FM in Tampa.

Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) has elevated Randi P'Pool to its board of directors. P'Pool, who brings more than two decades of broadcast experience to the board, succeeds Denyse Mesnik, who will now serve on MIW's Advisory Council.

HeartMedia's Denver-based sports station KOA (850 AM, 94.1 FM) is moving Ryan Edwards from its evening time slot to the afternoon drive program KOA Sports Zoo. Edwards is joined by co-hosts Dave Logan and Alfred Williams, and will cover all things Denver sports.

SiriusXM says it has hired Suzi Watford to serve as the company's newest senior vice president in the role of chief growth officer. Watford will be in charge of driving SiriusXM's enterprise-level growth strategy; she will report to Joe Verbrugge, SiriusXM's chief commercial officer.

Renée Castle is joining Cumulus Memphis country station WGXK (105.9 FM, Kix 106) and its morning show, Mornings with Latty. Castle was previously the evening on-air host at Beasley's WKLB (102.5 FM) in Boston.

Cumulus Media is moving some talent around at a pair of its Tucson radio stations. Bobbi Pereyda will move from mid-days on KSZR (97.5 FM, The Vibe) to the mid-day slot at sister-station KIIM (95.5 FM). Krystal Pino will move from the mid-day slot at KIIM to the mid-day slot at KSZR.

Robby Bridges has been promoted from Director of Programming to VP of Programming for WWZY-FM and WBHX-FM in New Jersey. The stations are owned by Press Communications.

Suzanne Carroll has been named the General Sales Manager at Beasley Media Group's 5-station Charlotte cluster. Carroll joins Beasley from Audacy Corporate, where she worked on the sales acceleration team.

Bruce Avery, the former general manager of Hofstra University's WRHU (88.7 FM) in Hempsted, New York, died Saturday at the age of 69 after a lengthy illness. Avery retired in August 2022 after spending 28 years as the general manager of WRHU.