People in the News

"Marc" (Marc Jason) has joined Veronica and Kevin on Tampa's WQYK Morning Show, 5-10 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, calling it his "dream job."

Phoenix Country station 102.5 KNIX has named Tim Hattrick morning personality for the new Tim, Ben & Brooke Show, joining Ben Campbell and Brooke Hoover, effective January 9. The Tim, Ben & Brooke Show will broadcast Monday to Saturday, 5-10 a.m.

August Wallace is the new Operations Manager of Cumulus’ five radio stations in Flint, MI. Wallace will continue to program Urban AC WDZZ-FM in Flint. The company has also promoted Tim Shickles to PD at NASH FM 95.1/WFBE-FM and Sports Xtra 1330/WTRX-AM, also in Flint.

Nathan Fast will join KVIL-FM 103.7 (Dallas-Fort Worth) as the station’s new morning host beginning today. Fast joins 103.7 from Southern California, where he was most recently the nighttime host at KHTS-FM in San Diego and a weekend host on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles.

El Cucuy de la Mañana – or just El Cucuy – is one of Spanish radio’s most beloved and successful wake-up media personalities, and he has a new show on Lazer Broadcasting’s “La Mexicana” in Southern California, starting Monday, January 9. El Cucuy is premiering first in Oxnard-Ventura market (KOXR 102.1FM/910AM) for the morning drive, 6 – 9 a.m. Monday through Friday.

San Jose will wake up to a new voice, starting January 17. Bruce Scott joins BAY FM from KOST in Los Angeles. Alpha Media VP of Programming and Bay FM PD Ronnie Stanton said, “It’s very exciting to add Bruce to the refreshed sound of Bay FM. He brings years of experience and a great radio brain to create an upbeat and fun morning show with the greatest hits of all time for the Bay Area."

Mele Apana and Shannon Scott, known as Da Kolohe Krew, reunited earlier in 2016 doing Saturday mornings on KINE Hawaiian 105. But what started as a casual gig has grown into a highly popular show. So now the pair have been rewarded with the 5 a.m.-12 Noon slot, Monday to Friday.

The on-air personalities for Country station KVET FM’s morning program, The Bama, Rob and Heather Show, have a new multi-year agreement to get their Austin listeners entertained. The program broadcasts on weekday mornings from 6 – 10 a.m. CST.

The Tom Rivers Humanitarian Award winner is chosen by the Country Radio Broadcasters Board of Directors and recognizes someone in the Country radio industry who has displayed a magnanimous spirit of caring and generosity in service to their community. Former Greater Media CEO Peter Smyth will be given the award this year. He said, "I am incredibly honored and humbled to receive this distinguished award. I look forward to attending CRS in 2017."

And that is Johnnie D, who is promoted from APD and will work closely with Derrick Brown, Director of Urban Programming for iHeartMedia Chicago at the station. Brown was handling WGCI PD duties as a part of his Director of Urban Programming responsibilities.