People in the News

Ohana Broadcast Company has hired local boy Keola Lui-Kwan to host mornings on 102.7 Da Bomb (KDDB-FM). Kwan returns to Honolulu after 14 years in major markets.

Christopher “Matthews” Wagnon will take up the co-host position of the New KMLE @ 107.9 morning show, effective immediately. He joins Nina D. who has been with the morning show since November 2012.

This news came to us late Wednesday night from Cumulus in Kansas City. KCMO morning news anchor Dennis Rooney passed away after a two-year battle with cancer.

92.3 WIL St. Louis has announced the impending arrival of their new morning show hosts. Beginning Monday, March 14, St. Louis’s New Country station will debut the Bud and Broadway show weekdays from 5-9 a.m.

They started their show as a podcast in 2011. They moved to radio last year. And now Jalen & Jacoby will become a half -hour TV show on ESPN2 featuring their best radio segments.

Shack is best known as the Executive Producer for syndicated talker Howie Carr. The station she'll be holding down the noon to 3 p.m. slot is 1510 AM WMEX Boston.

Letty B gets the 10AM-3PM slot on the iHeart station in L.A. after Sisanie left to work with Ryan Seacrest, taking the seat previously occupied by Ellen K.

The awards were endless for Charlie Tuna who died peacefully in his sleep February 19, according to his close friend Steve Wall at The Talent Farm. Tuna left Kearth 101 in Los Angeles back in August of 2015 to focus on his syndication company. He worked as morning drive radio personality for more stations and formats than anyone in Los Angeles radio history.

Greater Media’s HOT 96.9 makes the announcement that Ramiro Torres, also known as “The Freakin’ Puerto Rican," is joining the morning GetUp Crew with Pebbles, Melissa and Wiggy. Ramiro most recently hosted mornings at iHeartMedia's WJMN in Boston. He's been on the air in Boston for over 20 years.

Daly XXL Communications, owners of 1510 WMEX in Quincy, MA, have hired Joe Shortsleeve who'll be joined by strategist Diane McNamara for a live, Monday-Friday show from 10 a.m. – Noon. They’ll begin February 1 and will replace the station’s current offering of Boston Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting."