People in the News

The Audio Engineering Society, first ever, President's Award has been given to Bob Orban. The award recognizes contributions to the goals of AES that are made collaboratively in groups.

Salem Media Group's AM 560 The Answer in Chicago has signed news anchor Mike Scott to a full-time contract as it restructures the stations line-up. For the past 17 years Scott has worked with the station through an agreement with Total Traffic and Weather Network and NBC News Radio.

NPR has announced that Leila Fadel has been selected as the fourth host of Morning Edition, NPR’s morning drive time news magazine carried by 834 public radio stations, and Up First, NPR’s daily morning news podcast.

Long-time Chicago Bears beat reporter for ESPN radio in Chicago Jeff Dickerson has died after battling colon cancer. Dickerson's wife Caitlin passed away, also from cancer, in 2019. They leave behind an 11-year-old son.

92Q DJ Porkchop is leaving Baltimore after about 20 years. DJ Porkchop (Johnny Doswell) announced he's leaving radio to be with family in Las Vegas.

Good Karma Brands and ESPN 1000 in Chicago have promoted Danny Zederman to the position of Director of Content. Zederman is a 15-year veteran of ESPN 1000.

From 1971 to 2004 Tom Barberi was known as “The Voice of Reason” on Salt Lake City station KALL. He died Christmas Eve at age 78.

Chubb Rock’s programs "Diggin' In Tha Crates" and "Authentic Caribbean" have been added to the CKFG-FM Toronto line-up. The programs are syndicated by United Stations Media Networks and distributed in Canada by Orbyt Media.

Jared Merves is joining Cumulus Media as Senior Vice President, Digital. Merves was most recently Chief Revenue Officer of Distributed Media Lab.

The Martha Quinn Show will debut nationwide on January 10. The midday show will launch on over 35 stations. Quinn was one of the original VJs when MTV launched in 1981. She joined iHeart in 2016 as the host of the Martha Quinn Morning Show on KOSF in San Francisco.