People in the News

Newsman Drew Scott is joining the team of JVC's Long Island News Radio (WRCN).  In addition to working at News 12 (Long Island TV), Scott was the founding news director of WLNY TV 55 and worked as Washington Correspondent at the White House for Tribune Broadcasting.

Chris Soechtig has been named Market President for iHeartMedia's Tampa Bay market. Soechtig replaces Sam Nein and will report to Linda Byrd, President of iHeartMedia’s North Florida Region.

Rosenberg was a member of the inaugural WGN Radio Walk of Fame class in 2014. For 40 years (1973-2012) he was the host of WGN Radio’s Extension 720, "a daily two-hour festival of intelligent talk" on WGN-Radio in Chicago. Rosenberg died of pneumonia and its complications after entering the hospital on New Year’s Day. He would have been 93 on April 15.

Radio veteran John Summers is joining WHCU-AM/FM/Ithaca as their Brand Manager and News Director. He starts January 22. Summers was most recently the Regional Program Director and News Director for the Northwest News Radio Network and the Washington Ag Network.

Canadian Music Week has announced that Beasley Media Group CEO Caroline Beasley will be a featured speaker in a session called "A Radio Executive's View From The Corner Office." The session will feature several radio executives and cover the overall positioning of radio today, its future, and how digital fits into the landscape. 

Superadio Networks makes the announcement that The Michael Baisden Show will return to the Atlanta market this week after being dropped by CMG's WALR-FM late last year. Core Communicators Broadcasting is picking up the show for WTBS-FM, which recently reset its format from Old School to a more contemporary adult urban music mix.

The Joe Pags Show adds KPAM in Portland, OR, as its 100th affiliate. The Compass Media Networks show launched August 2015 and now, in less than 30 months, announces 100 stations, including Flagship WOAI San Antonio, KPRC Houston, and KTLK Minneapolis.

77 WABC Radio night talk show host John Batchelor has accepted an invitation from the State of Qatar to broadcast from Doha this week, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Broadcast Music, Inc. has named Randall McMillan to the newly created position of VP Business Affairs, Creative & Licensing. Reporting to Mike Steinberg, Executive VP Creative & Licensing, McMillan will be based in BMI’s New York office.

Mvyradio (Martha’s Vineyard) announces that Jess Phaneuf is returning to the WMVY airwaves at the end of January. Phaneuf will rejoin the mvyradio team, with both on-air and off-air duties. She’ll hold down a weekday afternoon air shift and will take on the title of Music Director.