People in the News

Seattle afternoon show "The Men’s Room" which airs on KISW-FM is being rolled out into syndication as of June 5 by Westwood One. The male demo focused show is hosted by Miles Montgomery, Steve Hill and Ted Smith, and producers Robin Foxx and Mike Hawk. Westwood One will handle affiliation and ad sales

Della Berning is the new Sales Manager for Cumulus Media’s four radio stations in Baton Rouge. Berning joins Cumulus from Velocity Agency in Baton Rouge, where she was Director of Business Development. Prior to that, she was LSM and NSM for WBRZ in Baton Rouge.

Jill Egan is the new producer for The Sherman & Tingle Show (5:30 a.m. – 9 a.m.) on Hubbard's WDRV-FM in Chicago. The popular morning show is hosted by Brian Sherman and Steve Tingle.

Steve Pleshe takes over as PD at KSKS-FM/KISS Country in Fresno. Pleshe spent the last nine-and-a-half years working in the record industry as a Regional Director of Promotion based in Fresno, promoting Country artists Chris Young, Sara Evans, Jake Owen, and most recently, Kelsea Ballerini.

It’s an exclusive long-term agreement under which Harvey will continue as host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show, which now reaches 7 million weekly listeners on almost 100 stations. Harvey will also work with iHeartMedia on a variety of projects.

The company has hired Mike Dee under the title of President of Entercom Sports. As Entercom integrates the CBS properties it will significantly increase the number of sports stations it has as well as the play-by-play activity. Entercom was already a big believer in local sports talk and play-by-play.

On May 15, Salem’s San Diego News/Talk station, AM 1170 The Answer, will expand The Hugh Hewitt Morning Show by an additional hour, airing it 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. PT, and add Mike Gallagher Live from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. PT. Hewitt moved to mornings last April and quickly became the "go to" guy for this last presidential campaign. 

The worst kept secret at ESPN is that Mike Greenberg will be heading over to the TV side to host his own show. What has been a very well kept secret is who will replace Greenberg and sit next to Mike Golic. At first the speculation was that it would be his son, Mike Jr. New York Daily News writer Bob Raissman is now reporting that Trey Wingo will be Golic's new partner.

Morning show host Kevin Kline, of KKBQ-FM/The New 93Q, set out on Saturday, April 29, in Milan, Italy, to run the Ultra Milano Sanremo and completed the 178.5-mile race in 47.5 hours. And if that isn’t impressive enough, he finished 14th out of a field of 100 runners. Better still, Kline ran to raise awareness and money for the fight against childhood cancer.

Mayor Karen Weaver will be using WFLT-AM in Flint in a series of Town Hall's in May to discuss the ongoing water situation. MLive reports the radio Town Hall's follow one regular town hall meeting that saw six people get arrested after Weaver recommended the city stay on the Detroit water system.