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Heidi & Frank Re-Up With KLOS; Add Frosty Stillwell

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 16TH, 2016 –– Cumulus Media announced that 95.5 KLOS/Los Angeles has re-signed “The Heidi & Frank Show” to a multi-year deal and also added former cast member, Frosty Stillwell. He'll join as a permanent co-host beginning Tuesday, September 6, 2016. The reunion comes six years after Frosty left the show to do News/Talk in San Francisco. The trio’s long history together includes successful Los Angeles stints at KYSR-FM, KLSX-FM and KABC-AM. In marking this occasion, Frank Kramer commented: “Frosty got me into radio and I always said I would keep him in it. So now we’re even. Legendary station, legendary show, this will be fun.” Heidi Hamilton continued: “Frosty coming back is like hearing that an old friend you haven’t seen in a long time is going to be in town and wants to hang out. Then you start thinking about all the great times and laughs you had together and can’t wait to see them.”

Frosty added: “The band is getting back together and this is thrilling for me personally and professionally and it doesn't get any better than doing the trio show on L.A.'s legendary KLOS. I have missed working with my friends Frank and Heidi. They are two incredible talents at the top of their game, and the chemistry we have as a team is something truly special.”

America's Morning Show Welcomes New Co-Host; Blair Garner Returns To New Overnight Show

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 16TH, 2016 –– Cumulus Media introduces Ty Bentli as the new co-host of America’s Morning Show with Kelly Ford and Chuck Wicks starting on September 6, 2016. Bentli replaces Blair Garner who will host the new overnight show The Blair Garner Show. Garner, a Country Radio Hall of Fame inductee, will debut his new show later this fall. The show marks a return to overnight programming for Garner, who achieved success as host of the long-running nationally syndicated overnight show, After Midnite, which aired from 1993-2013. Concurrently, three-time CMA "National Broadcast Personality of the Year" Kix Brooks, who this year celebrates ten years as Host of American Country Countdown on the NASH Network, will exit the overnight show, Kickin’ It With Kix, to focus fully on American Country Countdown, syndicated by Westwood One nationally.

Last week, Brooks inked an extended multi-year partnership agreement with Cumulus. In addition to being a celebrity judge for Cumulus’ NASH Next 2016 competition, Brooks is a regular contributor to NASHCountryDaily.com. Westwood One syndicates America’s Morning Show nationally. The show airs weekday mornings from 6:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Eastern. PHOTOS/Micah Kandros

US99 Completes New Lineup With Addition Of Kimmie Caruba; Re-Signs Drew Walker For Middays

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 16TH, 2016 – CBS Radio Chicago and WUSN announced that Kimmie Caruba (top left) will join US99 as its new nighttime personality. Caruba’s program will be broadcast from 7-Midnight starting Monday, August 29th. Additionally, longtime midday personality Drew Walker (bottom) has re-signed with US99 and will continue weekdays from 10a – 3p. “

Caruba joins WUSN from CBS Radio Phoenix where she pulled double duty as night talent on Country KMLE and midday talent Top 40 KALV. She’s an avid Chicago Bears fan, and while she may be leaving the heat of Arizona, Caruba is excited to dive in and meet the listeners of US99, Chicago’s Hottest Country.

“It still doesn’t seem real that I'm coming home to be a part of the legendary WUSN brand!” remarked Caruba; “I’m ready to give Chicagoland the nights they’ve been looking for… the best in new country content, the hottest country music and best artist experiences! Thank you so much to Tim Pohlman, Todd Cavanah, Jeff Kapugi & Tim Richards for this incredible opportunity.” The updated US99 on-air schedule beginning September 6 feature 5:30AM-10:00AM – Stylz & Roman 10:00AM-3:00PM – Drew Walker 3:00PM-7:00PM – Kasper 7:00PM -Midnight

John Mullett Rises To Music Director For ALT 92.9 Boston

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 16TH, 2016 –– Greater Media announced that John Mullett has been promoted to Music Director at ALT 92.9 in Boston. He will begin his new position immediately. Mullett joined WBOS-FM in 2013, where he most recently served as the Marketing Director at the station. Prior to coming to Greater Media Boston, he worked at WXRV-FM/92.5 The River and The Point in Burlington Vermont.

"I'm excited to take on the role of Music Director at Alt 92.9 Boston's Alternative,” said Mullett. “It is truly an honor to be a part of the team that provides Boston and beyond with such an incredible brand dedicated to serving passionate music fans. I look forward to continuing to work under the incredible leadership of Mary Menna, Cadillac Jack and Ken West."

Ace & TJ Honored With Kraddick Award At MSBC

At M28 (August 15, 2016) – (Atlanta, GA) – The Ace & TJ Show were honored last Friday in Atlanta at Talentmaster’s Morning Show Boot Camp 28 with the Kidd Kraddick Award. This is the third time the award has been given out with last year’s recipients being the current Kidd Kraddick Morning Show staff and the first year, 2014, given to The Bert Show. Created in 2013, the award is based on, but not limited to 5 key components: uniqueness, creativity, overall content, community service and inspiration to other shows and personalities. This year’s award was presented by Kidd Kraddick Morning Show co-host, Kellie Rasberry.

“It's always a huge honor to be recognized by our peers, but even more special when it's in memory of our dear friend and mentor” said TJ. Now in its 18th year of syndication, The Ace & TJ Show is syndicated by The Radio Button Network to The “South” Eastern seaboard including Charlotte, Columbia (SC), both Greenville’s (North & South Carolina), Birmingham (AL) and many more. Syndication information available by emailing Adam Goodman at ALG@RadioButtonNetwork.com.

SYNDICATION: CBS' The Taz Show To Air After Wrestling's Summer Premier

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 16TH, 2016 –– CBS Radio announced another special edition of THE TAZ SHOW: BODYSLAMS & BEYOND airing after wrestling’s biggest summer event on Sunday, Aug. 21 from 11:00PM – 2:00AM, ET. Fans can tune in to sports broadcaster and award-winning podcaster Taz, as he hosts the live-three hour program on CBS Sports Radio and various CBS RADIO sports stations. This special edition of THE TAZ SHOW can be heard over-the-air, streaming online, and using the CBS Sports and Radio.com apps for a variety of mobile devices, as well as watching a live video stream of the show on TazShow.com. Immediately following, the show will also be offered on-demand, and will serve as the Monday, Aug. 22 edition of THE TAZ SHOW.

In addition to airing on CBS Sports Radio on over 335 affiliates, the special will air on various CBS RADIO sports stations including Sports Radio 660 and 101.9 FM WFAN (New York), 670 The Score (Chicago), 105.3 The Fan (Dallas/Fort-Worth), 106.7 The Fan (Washington, D.C.), Sportsradio 94WIP (Philadelphia),and 98.5 The Sports Hub (Boston).

SBS Launches First Cubatón Station With Ritmo 95.7 Miami

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 16TH, 2016 –– Spanish Broadcasting System has flipped its Miami top 40 radio station, La Nueva I95.7 FM, to Ritmo 95.7 FM, with the tagline “Cubatón y más” (Cubatón and more) reports Billboard. “I think it’s [Cubatón] becoming a worldwide phenomenon,” said Jesus Salas, SBS’ EVP of programming, multi-platform coordinator. “Everything Cuban now is fashionable and Cuban music is widely popular all over Europe. And in Miami what I saw and what I’ve been seeing is, when we go to bars they play this music over and over and no one has really embraced it enough. We were the first to break Gente de Zona in the country and the first to break Jacob Forever in Miami. I see all the different fusions that are being recorded. These artists have millions of views in YouTube, and no one is playing it on rotation. We have the station to do that.”

Cubaton will also feature other urban and reggaetón music. “The appeal is going to be Cubatón, which doesn't have an outlet in and of itself, but it will live within a Latin urban format that will include reggaetón,” said Carolina Santamarina, GM of SBS. While Cuban urban music has gained traction in recent months, to date the music is far from dominating the charts. However, Salas says, the music is there. “I’ve done extensive research on it, and there are more than 10 main Cuban artists making this kind of music, and I’ve found over 100 songs that I think are really good, and when they get exposed they’re going to become hits. There is more than enough music to create a station.”“Urban is the new pop,” said Salas. “But traditional ballads will always have a place. And Zeta in Miami will play ballads.”

WWO's Kastenbaum Organizes Media Olympic Run

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 16TH, 2016 –– What happens when one reporter puts up a sign looking for runners in the Rio Olympics Media Village elevator? Westwood One News correspondent Steve Kastenbaum organized an Olympic event for media reporters in Rio, at least for those who were up for running 5 miles on little sleep early Sunday morning after covering Michael Phelps final Olympic gold medal win Saturday night!

And just there are no worries this event will overshadow the actual Olympic competition, WATCH HERE

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'I Yelled As Loud As I Could,' LSU Radio Host Among Thousands Rescued During Baton Rouge Flood

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 15TH, 2016 –– LSU athletics department spokesman Michael Bonnette confirmed that legendary Tigers radio voice Jim Hawthorne (inset) and his wife were rescued from their Baton Rouge, Louisiana, home on Sunday reports espn.com. LSU officials spent part of Sunday frantically searching for Hawthorne, who went missing after torrential rainfall flooded his neighborhood in Baton Rouge. Bonnette said Hawthorne's cell service had been down since Saturday, so his family and friends were unable to reach him. "We were launching a boat to go rescue him," Bonnette said. "He's been found and he's safe." theadvocate.com reported Hawthorne saying, “I yelled as loud as I could, and they heard me,” the 72-year-old said. “I was in water up to my you-know-whats. I was yelling, ‘HEY! HEY!’ The motor stopped and they came around and came back.” Hawthorne, LSU’s play-by-play man for 35 years before retiring in March, and his wife had been trapped in their one-story home in the Park Forest neighborhood of Baton Rouge since flood waters began trickling in Saturday. The home lost electricity later Saturday, and Hawthorne’s cell phone battery died Saturday night, isolating the couple.

Hawthorne, 72, retired as LSU's radio play-by-play announcer last season. He had been the voice of Tigers' football since 1983 and also called men's basketball games starting in 1979. He called 387 consecutive LSU football games before missing the Alabama game last season because of a medical procedure.

CBS affiliate WAFB cites a spokesman saying that approximately 18,000 people have been rescued so far from rising floodwaters. PHOTO/LSU - YouTube

MOTION: Cumulus Promotes Greg Smith To VP/GM Over Detroit Cluster; Names Nikki Thomas PD For WIVK/Knoxville

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 15TH, 2016 –– Cumulus Media announces that it has promoted Greg Smith to Vice President/General Manager of its Detroit FM stations, 96.3 WDVD-FM (Hot AC) and NASH FM 93.1 WDRQ-FM (Country). Smith, a 22-year Detroit radio veteran, previously served as the stations’ Vice President of Sales, a position he has held since August 2014. Prior to that, he was General Sales Manager for CBS Radio in Detroit, where he also held positions including Director of National Sales and General Sales Manager during his 14 years with CBS Radio-Detroit. Smith said: "I am very fortunate to work with such a talented team in Detroit and look forward to helping to drive the continued growth of these great brands. I am excited for the next phase in my broadcasting career and appreciate the opportunity both Mary Berner and Bob Walker have given me."

-- In a separate announcement, Cumulus announced that it has appointed Nikki Thomas as Program Director for Country-formatted 107.7 WIVK-FM in Knoxville, TN. Thomas moves to Knoxville from Cumulus Media-Modesto-Stockton, CA, where she has been Program Director for KATM-FM/Kat Country for the last five years of her nine-year tenure with the station. Prior to that, Thomas was with CBS Radio’s KWYE in Fresno, CA, and WKSF in Asheville, NC. She is a native of the Knoxville area. A search is currently underway for a new Program Director for KATM-FM in Modesto, CA.

2015 Marconi Winner Gene & Julie Announce Exit From MIX 101.5 Raleigh

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 15TH, 2016 –– Capitol Broadcasting Hot AC WRAL MIX 101.5 Raleigh and husband-and-wife-team Gene and Julie are parting company. Their last show was today (8/15). Gene & Julie are the current “Large Market Personality of the Year” Marconi Award winners, and they took less than a year to take WRAL mornings to #1 with Women 25-54 and Adults 25-54.

Gene & Julie spent eight successful years at KVIL/Dallas, and prior to that were heard on KIOI/San Francisco, WLTM/Atlanta, KZQZ/San Francisco, KZLA/Los Angeles and KBFB/Dallas. Also exiting is Gene & Julie Show producer Casey Tate. Prior to joining G&J, Casey was morning show producer at Entercom Hot AC Star 94.1 Atlanta.

Reach Gene and Julie at geneandjulie@geneandjulie.com. Reach out to Casey at Tate85@gmail.com.

FRED JACOBS: 'I Have Seen The Future Of Radio… At Morning Show Boot Camp 28'

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 15TH, 2016 –– We'll be providing a number of glimpses this week into Talentmasters' 28th Annual Morning Show Boot Camp, but Fred Jacob's latest blog offers a great overview. "I’ve been to a number of Don Anthony’s “Morning Show Boot Camps” over the years," Fred writes. "But something was different about this one. Steve Goldstein – who presented with our Digital Dot Connector, Seth Resler – hit it immediately: the crowd was younger this year. It didn’t take long for me to make the same observation. Not only was the conference well-attended, but it was teeming with Millennials as excited about radio in 2016 as we were decades earlier.

This scene in the Grand Hyatt bar (shown) could easily pass for a Silicon Valley event. And the MSBC crowd could match an Internet startup for energy, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn .. I especially enjoyed the “Masters of the Morning” hosted by Dennis Clark, featuring the venerable Jim Kerr and Shelli Sonstein (Q104/New York), Bert Weiss, John Ivey, Entercom/Seattle’s Fitz, and the Motor City’s Mojo (right). It was a great mix of grizzled veterans and the new guard of morning talent, mixing it up, and talking about management, preparation, research, and all the other variables that impact on-air success. That panel and others were reminders of the mentoring spirit that is alive and well at Boot Camp.

The Millennial generation so often gets an undeserved bad rap for any number of reasons. Yet, in many ways, their mission is so much harder than it was in radio “back in the day.” Business conditions are more precarious in 2016, there are more cooks in the kitchen, and the pressure to perform has never been higher. It wasn’t always that way. Most of radio’s current leaders and owners entered into broadcasting during the fat and happy ’70s and ’80s. Radio was a hot industry, there was easy fame and fortune to be made, and everyone wanted “in.” Today’s emerging talent are being asked to do a lot more than “4 and out the door,” oftentimes for less money, fewer benefits, and lousier perks. Radio is bad-rapped in other media, in the advertising world, and even among their peers. And yet these young up-and-coming personalities are more energized and enthusiastic than we were to just be a part of the radio business. Their excitement for radio is contagious"

I was part of a “visionaries” session hosted by Mike McVay, and featuring the aforementioned Steve Goldstein, Pierre Bouvard, and Daniel Anstandig. Believe me when I tell you I feel more pressure at these MSBC sessions because it’s nearly 100% talent in the room. Their “bullshit detectors” are turned on to “high,” and I always want to reach higher to provide the best level of guidance possible. Mike smoothly guided the panel, as Steve pointed out the need for talent to use multiple distribution outlets to share content.

The stars of the show were the talented members of radio’s youth corps, excited to learn, socialize, and collaborate about how to make great radio in their local markets .. Boot Camp produces that tangible buzz that makes veterans like me, Greg Strassell, Pat Paxton, Kurt Johnson, and other programming execs keep coming back to remind ourselves there’s a lot of talent, excitement, and desire out there. Now it’s our job to mentor and nurture it (as well as learn a few things or two from them). READ BLOG HERE

'Personalities Are Arguably The Single Most Important Differrentiator For Radio' Writes RAB

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 15TH, 2016 –– 'Radio station personalities are arguably the single most important differentiator for radio,' writes the RAB's latest Radio Impact blog. "These are the people that make you laugh, make you cry and have the ability to provoke 6-8 emotions in less than 3 minutes. They know their audiences. They REALLY know their audiences and they know how to have a dialogue with them. Many of these individuals share their own lives and the listener is instantaneously connected — feeling like they are part of the conversation. While all of these personalities connect with their listeners over the air, they continue to connect with them via other social media options – like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – extending that dialogue and listener connection throughout the day."

When comparing radio personalities to other media personalities, 6 out of 10 listeners say that radio hosts are “like a friend” whose opinions they trust. According to a study conducted by iHeartRadio, with even more ways for consumers and on-air personalities to interact, 4 out of 10 listeners feel personalities make more of an effort to foster a personal connection, making the radio experience inherently more social, particularly when compared to TV or streaming playlist services. They are able to accomplish this because they go way beyond the superficial, and in some cases have been known to even save lives. The blog concludes by saying personalities all storytellers that everyone wants to listen to. They deliver something no one else can – personal, local, native advertising with the credibility that no other native advertising can claim. READ BLOG HERE

Atlanta Host Reveals 10-Month Old Daughter Has Cancer

THE MOUTH, AUGUST 15TH, 2016 –– Jeff Dauler, co-host of Star 94.1 Atlanta's Jeff & Jenn Show startled listeners this morning when he revealed on today's show "I am here alone today.. As you may have heard on the show recently, Jenn’s (Hobby) youngest daughter has been sick, and the past couple of weeks were filled with doctor’s appointments and even a couple of visits to the emergency room.

Reese was admitted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and has been undergoing tests to determine exactly what she is battling and how the doctors will help her fight. Jeff shared that little Reese has a solid mass tumor near her tailbone that has started to affect her spine This afternoon, she will have a biopsy to determine what type of tumor this is. During the biopsy, they will give her a port to receive chemotherapy. Once the doctors know what they are dealing with, they will create a plan for treatment, which is likely chemotherapy followed by surgery .. As far as the show goes: Jenn will obviously be out for a few days. There is actually a radio studio IN Egleston Hospital and I have already talked to the folks at Seacrest Studios about using it, and they assured me that it’s ours whenever we need it. When we spoke last night about me making this announcement today, Jenn actually said ‘after you tell people what’s going on, get back to fun stuff. Remember why we do this show."

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