People in the News

WKYS 93.9 FM has a new night show host: Khalia “Little Bacon Bear” Canty. Effective Monday, November 16, Little Bacon Bear will bring a new sound and style weeknights from 7:00 p.m. to midnight, and weekends from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Long-time Kansas City radio personality Kelly Urich has been recruited to anchor mornings on Classic Hits station 94.9 KCMO-FM. Kelly Urich Mornings debuts on Tuesday, December 26, and will air weekdays 6-10 a.m.

WXPN of the University of Pennsylvania has brought in Stephen Kallao as contributing host for the NPR-distributed daily music program World Café. In this role, Kallao will assist in producing the program’s radio and digital special features and conduct interviews with a wide variety of musicians.

iHeartMedia Norfolk, which recently flipped a CHR station to Alternative Rock, has hired Brett Ballard to program the station. He'll also host afternoons. Ballard joins the Norfolk Market from WTKX in Mobile where he was PD at WTKX. He also programmed WRKH in Mobile and WFFX in Hattiesburg, Mississippi for iHeart.

Joel Murphy has been named PD for Top 40 KISS FM in Cleveland and Keith Abrams, Senior VP of Programming for iHeartMedia’s North Ohio Region, has been named PD WMMS-FM.

Entercom has appointed Jim Fox as Vice President of Music Programming for the Dallas-Fort Worth cluster, effective December 21. Fox joined Entercom Sacramento in 2003 and will continue in his current role as Vice President of Programming in the Sacramento cluster until the end of the year

There’s a new PD at 101.1 WNOE, New Orleans Country Station. Ashley Wilson will program the station and host PM drive. Wilson joins iHeartMedia New Orleans from Country station WGNE-FM in Jacksonville

iHeartMedia Washington, DC announced Friday that Toby Knapp has been named new co-host for the morning show on 97.1 WASH-FM, “Washington’s Variety of the 80s, 90s and Today,” starting today.

Mottla’s career includes the VP/programming position at Envisage Radio Group in Escondido, CA as well as programming rock stations including WHEB/WGIR Manchester, NH, WDRE Long Island, NY, WIYY Baltimore, MD, KTYD Santa Barbara, CA, and WFNX Boston, MA.

Kent Dunn will return to August, GA to oversee the company’s cluster of eight radio stations in the market, including WKXC-FM 99.5, WHHD-FM 98.3, WDRR-FM 93.9, WGUS-FM 102.7, WCHZ-FM 93.1/95.5, WGAC-FM 95.1, WGAC-AM 580, and WRDW-AM 163.