St. Louis Radio: PD Chris Neupert OUT At Sports WXOS

Chris “Hoss” Neupert, who had been with Hubbard Radio's sports WXOS 101.1 since shortly after it adopted the sports format nearly 11 years ago and had been its program director since March 2013, has been fired.

The St. Louis Post-Disoatch citing sources reports Austin Huff, who had been the executive producer of the midday show with Anthony Stalter and Jamie Rivers, also was ousted.

Chris Neupert

Neupert declined comment.

The move evidently is a cost-cutting measure. Numerous sources said Tommy Mattern, who is the operations manager for the five stations that WXOS parent company Hubbard Radio St. Louis owns, will add Neupert’s duties to his schedule. That’s in addition to him overseeing WIL-FM 92.3 FM, KSHE 94.7 FM, KPNT 105.7 FM and WARH 106.5 FM, and seems like a huge plate to fill.

Before going to 101.1, Neupert was the program director at sports-talk KFNS 590 AM, and also the executive producer of the Rams’ radio network. Those broadcasts began airing on 101.1 in 2009 and remained on the station until the team left town after the 2015 season.

Neupert also began at 101.1 in 2009, as assistant program director, and became program director in March 2013 after Kent Sterling left. He had finished second to Sterling when the job became open two years earlier.