People in the News

NuVoodoo Media Services has appointed media and content strategist PJ Kling to the newly created position of VP for Product & Business Development. Part of Kling's responsibilities will be to expand NuVoodoo’s relationships with radio stations, artists, and record labels.

Jason Wolfe gets the newly created position of Network Manager for the Howie Carr Radio Network. He'll be charge of building and expanding the reach and brand of the Howie Carr Show, which is now heard on 27 stations across New England.

Scripps owns 94.5 KTI COUNTRY in Milwaukee and the station announced Wednesday that Britt Pearson is joining the Jake & Tanner morning show as producer. Pearson will handle some on-air hosting duties. VP/GM Tom Langmyer said, "We're committed to breaking out of the industry rut of big companies that piped-in recorded voice-tracked hosts from out of the market and formats shaken out of a box."

Zac Wellsandt, also known as Mayhem, has been promoted to Director of CHR/AC Operations for the Central Texas Region. He'll oversee KXXM, KZEP, KQXT, and KQXT-HD in San Antonio, and KHFI, KPEZ, KVET-HD, and KASE-HD2 in Austin.

Louie Cruz is the new Senior VP of Programming for iHeart's Modesto/Stockton cluster which includes Hot AC KOSO-FM, Rhythmic AC KQOD-FM, Active Rock KMRQ-FM, AC KJSN-FM, and News/Talk KFIV-AM.

Kelli Hurley will now oversee all sales efforts for the company’s portfolio of digital products -- including streaming audio, on demand, and podcasting.

iHeart Media has named Tish Boden Senior VP of Sales for the Jacksonville/Brunswick market. Boden moves to Jacksonville from the iHeart New Orleans cluster where she was GSM. Boden has over 14 years in radio, having started out as an AE and on-air personality.

Rick Martinez has been appointed to the newly created position of Vice President of News and Information Programming for Curtis Media. Martinez rejoins Curtis from the staff of Governor Pat McCrory where he was Deputy Communications Director.

Sonya Blakey will host mornings from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Marcella Jones will host afternoons from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., weekdays, on Inspiration 1390AM, live in-studio beginning Monday, April 4, 2016.

89.3 WFPL News in Louisville has named Bill Burton (pictured) as the local host and producer of the NPR flagship news program, Morning Edition. The station has also hired Kathi Lincoln as WFPL’s new midday host and producer of The Diane Rehm Show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Here and Now, and Kentucky’s statewide newscast.