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Marcia Keegan has been named vice president, national radio programming and production at ESPN Radio. She will oversee all talk programming content on the national network. She will retain responsibility for ESPN’s packaged show productions which handles approximately 1,000 hours of programming produced by outside vendors.

The past 10 of those years Chris Claus has been VP and Market Manager for the Entercom New Orleans cluster. Prior to joining Entercom, Claus served as VP and General Manager for stations in San Diego, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Entercom did not announce his replacement. 

Smitty O’Loughlin, Market Manager of Community Broadcasters Elmira cluster, after 36 years in the radio industry – the last four years with Community Broadcasters – will be retiring August 15. O’Loughlin began his radio career in Fort Smith Arkansas in 1981. He has worked in Arkansas markets, and also Missouri, finishing up his illustrious career in Elmira-Corning.

The executives who’ve been promoted are Rich O’Brien (pictured right), who has been elevated to the newly created position of Executive Vice President of Programming and Affiliate Relations, and Eric Faison who has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Programming and Affiliate Relations.

The Atlanta station has brought in Charly Morgan to head up their midday show. Morgan is currently the morning drive co-host on “Your Georgia Country” (WNGC/Athens) and has also been handling midday fill-in on B98.5 since May 2017.

Beasley Media Group has hired Steve Mills to program WDRR-FM in Augusta. Mills most recently served as a producer for Sound Solutions, a subsidiary of Cumulus Media. Previous to that, he worked as the Operations Manager for Midwest Communications and was the Corporate Digital Manager for Cumulus and Westwood One in Atlanta.

Mat Bates is the new PD at Cumulus-owned KFOG-FM in San Francisco. He was most recently Head of Programming for Rock Formats at Pandora. Before Pandora, Bates was Global Head of Music and Curation at Rdio and Sr. Manager for Radio Programming at Slacker. Prior to going to the dark side of audio, Bates spent a decade in radio at 91X, KXTE, KQXR, and KRZQ.

The Adult Contemporary station is teaming up AJ Machado and Sara Perry as co-hosts of the new AJ Mornings morning show beginning Monday, August 7, weekdays from 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. AJ Machado previously hosted The AJ Show for the past five years on ENERGY 103.7 – sister station to KyXy 96.5. 

Linda Ramsey and Jean Ferrari (left) are joining the Westwood One sales team. Ramsey joins Westwood as VP, Strategic Partnership, Midwest Sales. Ferrari gets the title of Director of National Partnerships.

Kevin Crockett is moving from Philadelphia to Allentown where he'll co-host WLEV-FM’s new morning radio show, Selena and Crockett. Crockett joins Cumulus' WLEV from CBS Radio-Philadelphia, where he's been heard in the market for the last eight years.