Pittsburgh Radio: CC Names Tim Benz Cluster Sports Director

Tim Benz

WXDX 105.9 FM morning host Tim Benz has been promoted to sports director of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment's Pittsburgh stations.

According to post-gazette.com, Benz will oversee sports programming on all six stations (WDVE-FM, WXDX-FM, WKST-FM, WWSW-FM, WPGB-FM and WBGG-AM). He'll do segments about the biggest sports stories of the day on each of the stations and will host a daily show on sports/talk 970 ESPN/WBGG at 2 p.m. weekdays.

Benz has been morning host at the X since 2006. He'll be replaced in morning drive by WXDX evening host Abby Krizner.

WXDX morning show co-host Bob McLaughlin moves to the job of executive producer for Mark Madden's sports talk show, which airs from 3 to 6 p.m. weekdays on WXDX.