People in the News

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.

WABC Radio in New York City is expanding The Bernie and Sid Show by an hour, bumping the last hour of Imus in the Morning. The show will now run 9 a.m.-12 Noon rather than 10 a.m.-12 Noon, following Imus. McGuirk is the executive producer and part of the on-air team of the Imus in The Morning show. Rosenberg continues in his role as sports anchor for Imus. The Sid & Bernie Show launched one year ago.

Michael Mann will see his duties as Director of Sales in Chicago expand in the new position of Director of Sales Strategy, Broadcast Media. Mann will work closely with the broadcast division’s senior leadership and local managers to create incremental resources, better sales tools, and ultimately more defined sales strategies.

The new BEN FM Morning Show with Matt & Kristen will broadcast weekdays 6-9 a.m. Matt Cord has come in from sister station 93.3 WMMR where he was night host for 11 years. His co-host is Kristen Herrmann and their first show aired Tuesday, January 3.

The Radio Television Digital News Foundation has announced the winners of its 2017 First Amendment Awards. The First Amendment Leadership Award goes to Hubbard CEO Stanley Hubbard and the First Amendment Service Award to ABC Radio News Vice President and General Manager Steve Jones.

iHeartMedia has promoted three programmers in Orlando. Brian Mack (pictured) gets the newly created role of VP of Branding for the Orlando cluster in addition to becoming PD for Magic 107.7. Mack will oversee the marketing strategy for all nine iHeart signals in Orlando. He'll also keep his gig as PD at XL 106.7. Here are the other changes...

Marilyn Russell is joining the WOGL-FM Breakfast Club in Philadelphia alongside co-hosts Frank Lewis and Bill Zimpfer. Russell is from Philly and started in radio in 1993 at modern rocker WDRE. She hosted a new music show, a local music show, and was music director.

The iHeart Chicago station announced Wednesday that Robin Rock will return as midday host. A 30-year vet, Rock first came to 93.9 MYfm nearly 20 years ago as midday host and spent over 16 years with the station. Since 2013, she's been a midday personality on various iHeartMedia stations across the country.