People in the News

BizTalkRadio financial host Ray Lucia is taking his battle with the SEC to the United States Supreme Court, according to The San Diego Reader. Here are the details...

There’s a morning drive change in the offing for Cox’s News 95.5 and AM750 WSB (WSB-AM/WSBB-FM). Starting Monday, October 2, The Von Haessler Doctrine, hosted by Eric Von Haessler, is moving to 9 a.m., and The Herman Cain Show will shift to the 11 a.m. hour.

93Q (WNTQ), “Syracuse’s #1 Hit Music Station,” has been named Syracuse’s Top Radio Station, and 93Q morning personalities Ted Long and Amy Robbins have been chosen as Syracuse’s Favorite Radio Personalities in the Syracuse New Times’ annual Best of Syracuse reader poll. Voting took place August 23-September 12.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America has established the Gary Fries Memorial Fund to honor the former RAB CEO. Fries was a long-time director of the Broadcasters Foundation. He died this past Friday at the age of 76.

This Wednesday, September 27, Steve and Ted in the Morning on KNSS/Wichita will celebrate their 5000th show. Local boys Steve McIntosh and Ted Woodward have won multiple awards from The Associated Press, Kansas Association of Broadcasters, RTNDA with a Murrow, and the National Association of Broadcasters with a Marconi.

Matt McAllister is the new host of KKWF, FM 100.7 The Wolf morning show. He’ll kick out the jams on October 2 from 6 to 10 a.m. PST, joining the Seattle country station from KNIX-FM in Phoenix, where he spent a decade on-air in the mornings.

He was the GSM in L.A. and now he's running the show in San Diego. Steve Brodsky has been promoted to GM for Salem's KPRZ-AM and KCBQ-AM in San Diego. Brodsky was the GSM at Salem’s KKLA-FM Los Angeles where he was for the past two years.

Scripps' 94.5 KTI-FM has hired Milwaukee radio icon and Country Radio Hall of Famer Karen Dalessandro to host PM drive and serve as music director. Dalessandro is a two-time CMA Personality of the Year and the former morning show host of crosstown iHeart Media Country station FM106.

Bob Cooney has joined Anthony Gargano as co-host of the 97.5 FM/Philadelphia The Fanatic Morning Show. Cooney had been filling in for several months and officially began his new position on Monday, September 11.

Former RAB CEO Gary Fries had been battling cancer since his retirement. He died Friday morning at the age of 76. Here's what radio executives are saying about the man who did so much for the radio industry.