People in the News

The Dayton area Broadcasters Hall of Fame induction ceremony was recently held. Pictured here with Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti are the 2017 inductees Christopher Geisen, WTUE-FM, Jeff Stevens, SVP/Programming for iHeartMedia and John King, the recently retired SVP/Market Manager for Alpha Media.

Alliance for Women in Media marks 70 years with a special Gracie Interview Series. Julie Talbott and Angela Yee will be part of the virtual gathering July 29.

The all time leading Saints rusher and Saints Hall of Fame inductee will be the color analyst for Saints game radio broadcasts beginning this season. McAllister joins WWL play by play announcer Jim Henderson on WWL's Saints Radio Network and takes over for Hokie Gajan who passed away.

77 WABC in New York debuted a new daily Web series on wabcradio.com Tuesday called Back to the Books Radio with Rita Cosby.”

Also late Thursday, iHeartMedia announced that Jeremy Rice has been named Program Director for XL1067 (WXXL) and Magic 107.7 (WMGF) in Orlando. Rice replaces Brian Mack, who was promoted to iHeartMedia’s National Programming team.

Dave Wills, team radio announcer for the Tampa Bay Rays, has died. Wills spent 18 years in the broadcast booth as the radio voice of the MLB team.

Urban AC 102.9 KBLX/San Francisco’s Morning Dream Team co-host Tony Roberts decided to "join" the New Orleans Pelicans basketball team recently. During the warm-ups for the Pelicans game against the Houston Rockets, Roberts left his courtside seat and began stretching next to the players.

He goes by Scotty K and he’s going to be competing in Season 11 of NBC’s sports entertainment-competition show American Ninja Warrior. He will travel to Oklahoma City to compete in the City Qualifiers on April 12-13.

Toshamakia Acevedo has been appointed to the role of Music Director for KS 107.5 (KQKS-FM) in Denver, effective July 30. Acevedo will also host the station’s afternoon drive, 3:00 p.m–7:00 p.m. MT. Acevedo was previously an on-air personality for sister station 102 Jamz (WJMH-FM) in Greensboro, NC.

Veteran broadcaster Kevin Battle will join The KDKA Radio Morning News with Larry Richert on March 9 at KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.