People in the News

WUSF in Tampa have hired Jessica Meszaros as a reporter for their newsroom and as a co-host on the Morning Edition news team. Meszaros has six years of broadcasting experience in media markets across Florida.

Hubbard Radio has announced that on July 9th, Mason and Remy will take over afternoons on New Country 92.3 (WIL-FM) in St. Louis. The duo were a longtime fixture in morning and afternoon drive in St. Louis before moving to Chicago.

Kevin Malone has joined Community Broadcasters as their Fort Walton Beach (Florida) Market Manager. Malone comes to Community Broadcasters from Georgia, where he worked with Cumulus Media

Kevin Weatherly will take over programming duties at Entercom's 97.1 AMP Radio (KAMP-FM). Weatherly will continue in his role as Program Director for KROQ (KROQ-FM) and 93.1 JACK FM (KCBS-FM). Entercom also announced that Chris Ebbott is the new Operations Manager for Radio.com in Los Angeles. Ebbott programs K-EARTH 101 (KRTH-FM) in L.A.

Sun Broadcast Group and Fitz have signed a multi-year extension of their syndication agreement that will continue all Fitz radio products into the next decade. The renewal covers both the daily Fitz Show as well as the weekend Hit List with Fitz countdown show.

Rob Sanchez is iHeartMedia Boston's new Vice President of News, Talk and Sports programming. The iHeart Boston cluster has six stations and Sanchez will be responsible for programming on WBZ NewsRadio 1030, The Newswatch Never Stops, WRKO-AM 680, The Voice of Boston, and Talk 1200, Boston’s Conservative Talk.

Janda Lane has joined Chicago’s WDRV-FM “The Drive.” Roberts will contribute content and information to the station’s afternoon show, hosted by Steve Seaver. She will also provide multifaceted assistance to The Drive’s programming department.

Josh Roberts has been named Operations Manager for Neuhoff Media Springfield, which includes stations WCVS-FM, WXAJ-FM, WFMB-AM, and WFMB-FM. Roberts joins Neuhoff from Great Plains Media in Bloomington, Il.

Buffalo’s WBEN-AM has a special anniversary to celebrate: longtime talk-show host Sandy Beach and his 50-year radio career. To do so, WBEN and Sandy will welcome special guests and members of the local media in studio during his show on June 15.

New Country 103.7 WXCY/Havre de Grace, MD, has promoted evening host Jeff Hunt to Evenings/Music Director. Hunt joined WXCY in May of 2017. Prior to joining WXCY, he was the APD/Music Director and midday host at Forever Media’s Big Froggy 101 in State College, PA.