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Quinn has been named Assistant Program Director and Music Director for FM106.1, “Milwaukee’s Best Country!” In her dual roles, she will assist in the day-to-day operations of the station’s music programming and scheduling of music logs, and also remain afternoon drive host, 3-7 p.m.

Al Farb has been appointed Assistant Program Director and afternoon drive talent for New Country 96.3 KSCS-FM in Dallas. Farb is a 10-year radio broadcasting professional and joins Cumulus from Cox Radio in Houston, where he was Executive Producer and on-air talent at KKBQ-FM and KTHT-FM.

Dick Broadcasting Company has promoted Matt Wells to Promotions Director for WKRR Rock 92 and WKZL 1075 KZL. Wells has been with the company for five years and has served as producer for Jared and Katie in the Morning (1075 KZL) for the past four years.

Knight is the new midday talent and Assistant Program Director for Magic 94-9 (WWRM-FM/Tamapa). For the past 24 years, Knight has worked for iHeart/Clear Channel Communications as on-air talent, MD and Production Director at stations including WMTX and WSSR.

iHeartMedia has named Lindsay Lazar GSM at "BIG 95.5" (Country/WEBG) and "93.9 LITE FM" (80s and 90s/WLIT) in Chicago. The 20-year vet moves to iHeart from the Entercom/CBS Chicago cluster where she was Sales Manager. She's also held sales and account management positions at Total Traffic and Weather Network, and Premiere Networks.

Cox Media Group Tampa has promoted Bryan Kelly to D.O.S. Bryan spent the past two years as GSM at CMG Tampa before being promoted. Kelly has also worked in sales management in Sarasota and West Palm. The D.O.S. vacancy was created when Jason Meder was promoted to GM in Orlando in December. CMG has six stations in the Tampa market.

Cox Media Group Tulsa Market Vice President Cathy Gunther announced on Thursday that Nate Reed has been named Operations Manager for that market. Reed moves into the job from his position as Director of Branding and Programming at CMG Tulsa’s Hot AC KRAV/Mix 96.5.

Ryan Maguire is the new PD for Bonneville's powerhouse News/Talker KIRO Radio in Seattle. Maguire has spent many years in the sports format and makes the move to Seattle from Entercom's WQAM in Miami where he's been PD since 2015. KIRO has been without a PD since Pete Gammell left the station in December.

Starting soon, Alisa Chang will host All Things Considered along with Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro; and Noel King will join David Greene, Steve Inskeep, and Rachel Martin as the fourth host of Morning Edition and the Up First podcast. King and Chang will continue their enterprise reporting on Planet Money.

Country 98.9 (KNUC/Seattle) has a new morning show beginning soon. Award-winning morning team Tim Leary, Claire Beverly, and Karen (Red) Daiss, from Savannah, GA, are headed to the Pacific Northwest. The trio have been together for three years.