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Tafrow Trading 'Airwaves For Fairways' ramp247.com/marketing/tafrow… via @RAMPMediaInc @Audacy @B101Philly @btafrow

Tafrow Trading ‘Airwaves For Fairways’

• Bill Tafrow, a familiar fixture at Audacy AC WBEB (B101)/Philadelphia for a quarter century, announced his impending retirement, effective this Friday, Oct. 30. B101 posted the news HERE. Tafrow...

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Stella Lefty Signs With Make Wake Artists ramp247.com/label-love/stell… via @RAMPMediaInc

Stella Lefty Signs With Make Wake Artists

• Sandlot/Atlantic Outpost's rising star Stella Lefty has signed with Nashville-based Make Wake Artists for management representation. The new partnership pairs Lefty with the management company...

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Pros On The Loose: Matt Cooper ramp247.com/programming/pros… via @RAMPMediaInc

Pros On The Loose: Matt Cooper

• RAMP has learned that Matt Cooper has exited as Program Director and midday host at SummitMedia Country WCYQ (100.3 The Wolf)/Knoxville, TN. Cooper had been on the job there since Sept. 2023, when...

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Remembering Norman Feuer ramp247.com/executive-action… via @RAMPMediaInc

Remembering Norman Feuer

• Norman Feuer, a legendary figure in American radio whose career spanned more than five decades, passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 19, 2026, following a three-year battle with dementia. He was...

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Pradt Awarded Middays On 93Q/Houston ramp247.com/programming/prad… via @RAMPMediaInc @93QCountry

Pradt Awarded Middays On 93Q/Houston

• Radio One Country KKBQ (93Q)/Houston promotes from within and names Mason Pradt as its new midday host. Houston native Pradt joined 93Q in 2014 as a promotions assistant, and has since worked his...

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Wilborn Named Market Pres., SummitMedia Omaha ramp247.com/sales/wilborn-na… via @RAMPMediaInc

Wilborn Named Market Pres., SummitMedia Omaha

• SummitMedia has tapped Aaron Wilborn as Market President of its Omaha broadcast, digital and events operations. Wilborn is inbound from Dick Broadcasting Company (DBC) where he has served as Market...

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Buffalo The New Home Of ‘US Country’ ramp247.com/programming/buff… via @RAMPMediaInc

Buffalo The New Home Of ‘US Country’

• After a year as Conservative Talk as "The Patriot," Buddy Shula's Radio One Buffalo has formally flipped 1230 WUSW (and two FM translators) to Classic Country as "US Country -- Buffalo's Country...

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Ryan Gibbons Wakes Up In Iowa ramp247.com/marketing/ryan-g… via @RAMPMediaInc @LAZER1033

Ryan Gibbons Wakes Up In Iowa

• Saga Active Rock KAZR (LAZER 103.3)/Des Moines, IA has filled its morning show vacancy -- meet the newest "LAZER Hellraiser" -- Ryan Gibbons starts Monday morning. Major market veteran Gibbons was...

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Robinson Assumes The GM Position ramp247.com/label-love/robin… via @RAMPMediaInc @PositionMusic

Robinson Assumes The GM Position

• Position Music has appointed veteran music industry executive Pete Robinson as the General Manager, Creative Nashville. Robinson brings more than three decades of experience across the music...

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Radio Mercury Awards Names '27 Chief Judge ramp247.com/sales/radio-merc… via @RAMPMediaInc @RadioMercAwards

Radio Mercury Awards Names ’27 Chief Judge

• The Radio Mercury Awards is pleased to announce Flor Leibaschoff, co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of BeautifulBeast, as the 2027 Chief Judge for the 36th annual Radio Mercury Awards competiti...

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Corry Named Exec. Director, Radio Milwaukee ramp247.com/programming/corr… via @RAMPMediaInc @RadioMilwaukee @88NineMKE

Corry Named Exec. Director, Radio Milwaukee

• Perfectly timed to the Brewers playing in the World Series, Maggie Corry has been named as the new Executive Director of Radio Milwaukee. Corry is a longtime company veteran, having previously...

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BFOA Now Has More Ways To Help ramp247.com/executive-action… via @RAMPMediaInc @BroadcastersFDN

BFOA Now Has More Ways To Help

• The Broadcasters Foundation of America (BFOA) is expanding its charitable assistance to help more radio and television professionals facing financial hardship. The Foundation has introduced...

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IGA Executive Action ramp247.com/label-love/iga-e… via @RAMPMediaInc @INTERSCOPEPROMO

IGA Executive Action

• Interscope Geffen A&M (IGA) announced new Creative and Urban leadership roles -- Michelle An has been promoted to President & Chief Creative Officer of IGA, and Laura Carter and Ramon Alvarez-Smi...

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Jessen Now Running The Show At B98.5/Atlanta ramp247.com/programming/jess… via @RAMPMediaInc @B985FM @COXMG @abbyjessen

Jessen Now Running The Show At B98.5/Atlanta

• Cox Media Group Atlanta has promoted Abby Jessen to Director of Branding and Programming for AC WSB-FM (B98.5). An Atlanta native and University of Georgia graduate, Jessen began her radio career...

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Marilynn Mee Needs Our Help ramp247.com/executive-action… via @RAMPMediaInc

Marilynn Mee Needs Our Help

• Milwaukee radio icon and animal rights activist Marilynn Mee announced she is battling terminal cancer. Mee memorably spent three decades on local radio, included launching WLZR (Lazer 103) in 1987...

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Remembering Reno Morning Icon Panama ramp247.com/formats/classic-… via @RAMPMediaInc

Remembering Reno Morning Icon Panama

• Reno Media Group is saddened to report the passing of longtime Northern Nevada radio personality Panama Hoston, known to listeners simply as "Panama," who died Sunday evening, Oct. 18 at Renown...

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Baltimore's Laurie DeYoung Returns! ramp247.com/marketing/baltim… via @RAMPMediaInc @thestevekramer @LaurieDeYoung

Baltimore’s Laurie DeYoung Returns!

• One of Baltimore's most recognizable radio voices is coming back to mornings this week -- on a temporary basis and on a different station. Country Radio Hall of Famer Laurie DeYoung, best known and...

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BMI's Barbara Cane Announces Retirement ramp247.com/label-love/bmis-… via @RAMPMediaInc @bmi

BMI’s Barbara Cane Announces Retirement

• After an incredible five-decade career with BMI, Barbara Cane, one of the music industry's most well-known creative executives and a devoted champion of songwriters, announced that she will retire...

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Fredericksburg Fired Up At The Cannon ramp247.com/programming/fred… via @RAMPMediaInc

Fredericksburg Fired Up At The Cannon

• At 5am local time on Monday, after a weekend of stunting, Connoisseur Media relaunched and rebranded Classic Rock WWUZ (96.9 The Rock)/Fredericksburg, VA as 96.9 The Cannon -- a new identity and...

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Tino Cochino Show Adds Celina Martinez ramp247.com/programming/tino… via @RAMPMediaInc @TinoCochino

Tino Cochino Show Adds Celina Martinez

• The YEA Media Group-syndicated Tino Cochino Show continues its evolution with the addition of major market talent Celina Martinez, who spent the past four years in middays at iHeartMedia's KHKS...

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