The Frank Ski Show launched in February and has already added 12 markets including flagship WHUR-FM in DC. The stations are:
WHUR-FM, Washington DC
KXCA-AM, Lawton, OK
KZYQ-FM, Greenville, MS
WARB-AM, Dothan, AL
WATV-AM, Birmingham, AL
WHOG-AM, Anniston, AL
WKTK-F2, Sarasota, FL
WMOP-AM, Ocala, FL
WQVE-FM, Albany, GA
WOKS-AM, Columbus, GA
WRBD-AM, Gainesville, FL
WZYQ-FM, Greenwood, MS
Frank Ski comments, “I am honored by the trust these great broadcasters have put in The Frank Ski Show with Nina Brown and we are going to outwork and outperform everyone!”
Bill Lynch, an award-winning journalist who anchored CBS News Radio's "World News Roundup" for nearly 15 years, has died, his family confirmed. He was 77.
Lynch died Tuesday in Lawrence, Kansas, surrounded by his family, his son Brendan Lynch said in a statement to CBS News.
Lynch was born in Salina, Kansas, in 1945. He served in the Army from 1966 until 1968. That year, he started working as a reporter in Washington, D.C.
In 1971, he joined WCBS Radio in New York City, working as a reporter and later an assistant news director.
He joined CBS News as a correspondent in 1981. In 1985, he became anchor of CBS News Radio's historic "World News Roundup," and held the position until 1999. During that time, in 1995, the program was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
While at CBS News, he covered the Pentagon, the State Department, political campaigns, conventions and space news.
"His booming voice and punchy writing style set him apart," "World News Roundup" anchor Steve Kathan said in an obituary for CBS News Radio. "He read and knew so much about so many issues and so many places. Bill Lynch was an influence on me and so many others who aimed to do what he could do."
➦In 1892...Lowell Jackson Thomas born (Died at age 89 – August 29, 1981). He was a writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicizing T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system.
In 1930, he became a broadcaster with the CBS Radio network, delivering a nightly news and commentary program. After two years, he switched to the NBC Radio network but returned to CBS in 1947. In contrast to today's practices, Thomas was not an employee of either NBC News or CBS News. Prior to 1947, he was employed by the broadcast's sponsor Sunoco. He returned to CBS to take advantage of lower capital-gains tax rates, establishing an independent company to produce the broadcast which he sold to CBS. He hosted the first-ever television news broadcast in 1939 and the first regularly scheduled television news broadcast (even though it was just a camera simulcast of his radio broadcast) beginning on February 21, 1940 over local station W2XBS (now WNBC) New York. It is not known whether all or some of the radio/TV simulcasts were carried by the two other television stations capable of being fed programs by W2XBS at the time, which were W2XB (now WRGB) Schenectady and W3XE (now KYW-TV) Philadelphia.
In the summer of 1940, Thomas anchored the first live telecast of a political convention, the 1940 Republican National Convention which was fed from Philadelphia to W2XBS and on to W2XB. Reportedly, Thomas wasn't even in Philadelphia, instead anchoring the broadcast from a New York studio and merely identifying speakers who addressed the convention.
The television news simulcast was a short-lived venture for him, and he favored radio. Indeed, it was over radio that he presented and commented upon the news for four decades until his retirement in 1976, the longest radio career of anyone in his day (a record later surpassed by Paul Harvey). His signature sign-on was "Good evening, everybody" and his sign-off "So long, until tomorrow," phrases that he would use in titling his two volumes of memoirs.
➦In 1931...Little Orphan Annie debuted on the NBC Radio Network. Annie was based on the daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York Daily News.
The plot follows the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy and her benefactor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Secondary characters include Punjab, the Asp and Mr. Am. The strip attracted adult readers with political commentary that targeted (among other things) organized labor, the New Deal and communism.
The strip's popularity declined over the years; it was running in only 20 newspapers when it was cancelled on June 13, 2010.
➦In 1945...'This is Your FBI' debuted on ABC radio as a weekly 30-minute police drama. Frank Lovejoy served as narrator over the following eight years.
➦In 1984...One of the most influential Top 40 stations in the world in the 1960s and 1970s Windsor’s iconic rock radio station CKLW (The Big 8 ) switched format to Adult Standards, branding as ‘The Music of Your Life.’
Some listeners believe that CKLW started to decline in popularity after Canadian content regulations went into effect in 1971. Although having to play 30% "CanCon" songs that generated little in the way of sales put the station at a competitive disadvantage compared to its U.S.-based competition, CKLW still managed to help break a number of Canadian songs and artists in the United States. These included Anne Murray, The Poppy Family, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, April Wine, the Five Man Electrical Band, and Bachman Turner Overdrive. Just as, if not more, responsible for the decline in CKLW's ratings as the 1970s wore on was the rise of FM radio as an outlet for contemporary music, as the station gained a direct FM Top 40 competitor, WDRQ, in 1972, and its listening audience was also fragmented between album oriented rock outlets such as WWWW, WRIF and WABX and adult contemporary stations like WNIC and WMJC.
The Canadian government's initial unwillingness to licence FM frequencies with pop or rock formats stranded Canadian stations on AM while an entire demographic of listeners began the exodus to US-based FM outlets anywhere the signals were in range. For many younger listeners by 1978, CKLW was the station they listened to only if they had an AM-only radio in their cars.
The station's music softened to the point where by 1982 it gave no airtime to harder-rocking songs like Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", and jingles were initially phased out, with new jingles and a new slogan ("The Great Entertainer") being introduced in 1979.
➦In 2011...Coyote William McCloud died from liver disease at age 68 (Born - August 31, 1942). He was a popular radio disc jockey in Nashville.
Integr8 Research President Matt Bailey introduces the music industry to Retention Rate, a new metric designed to identify which songs have staying power when interpreting streaming data. According to Bailey, comparing plays for a song's peak week on Spotify with its play count 10 weeks after its peak reveals a telling story. His formula for Retention Rate is the ratio of how many times streaming music consumers streamed a song in its 10th week after peaking, compared to how many streamed the song during its peak week.
"A song's peak streaming week is a measure of how many fans an artist has and how passionate and engaged those fans are. Artists like Harry Styles, Morgan Wallen, Drake and Taylor Swift have fan bases that run wide and deep. A high Retention Rate means the artist's biggest fans like it enough to keep playing it and reflects new people who have discovered it after it debuted," Bailey explained. "A song's ability to remain among the most streamed songs week after week is more predictive of a song's hit potential. That's what Retention Rate is all about."
In his newest blog, "Retention Rate: The Magic New Metric for Measuring Hit Potential in Streaming Data," Bailey shares examples of other songs with strong and weak Retention Rate, the correlation to Integr8 Research's own callout data, and practical ways to use Retention Rate.
Bailey will host a webinar about Retention Rate on Wednesday, April 19th at 2pm. Registration is now open here.
Fox News said Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo and other top on-air personalities will be available to testify as it defends itself against a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it lied about voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
In a letter filed on Tuesday in Delaware Superior Court, Fox said the hosts are among 11 people the cable television network intends to make available at trial, in a case brought by Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox host Jeanine Pirro and former host Lou Dobbs are also on Fox's witness list, and others including hosts Bret Baier and Dana Perino could be called to testify by either side, the letter said.
Reuters reports Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old chair of Fox's parent Fox Corp, is not on Fox's witness list.
The list promises a high-wattage parade of witnesses at the jury trial scheduled to start on April 17 and expected to last about four weeks.
Dominion is hoping to prove that Fox ruined its reputation by repeatedly airing false claims by former Republican President Donald Trump, his lawyers and others that its voting machines were used to steal the 2020 election for Democrat Joe Biden.
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. has announced that it has appointed Thomas D. Barry, who currently serves as Senior Vice President and Controller, as the Company's next Chief Financial Officer. Effective April 28th, Mr. Barry will succeed Sean Sullivan, who is stepping down from the role of CFO to pursue another opportunity at a publicly traded company outside the industry. Mr. Sullivan's transition will be effective April 28th, following the release of SiriusXM's first quarter 2023 earnings and its quarterly earnings call.
Thomas Barry
Barry has more than 30 years of finance and accounting leadership experience. Since 2009 he has served as the Senior Vice President and Controller of SiriusXM and as the Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Barry played an integral role in guiding the post-merger integration of Sirius and XM and subsequent acquisitions, including Pandora and the Connected Vehicle Business. Over the years, he has played a key role in organizational transformation, digital automation, and cost optimization initiatives while supporting rapid business revenue growth.
Before joining SiriusXM, Mr. Barry served in finance leadership roles at Reader's Digest Inc., Xerox Engineering Systems, and Avon Products Inc. Mr. Barry is a certified public accountant and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Creighton University and an MBA from the University of Connecticut.
The White House said the release of Evan Gershkovich is a priority for President Biden, as lawyers visited the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter nearly a week after Russian authorities arrested him on charges of espionage.
“These charges are ridiculous. Evan is not a spy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday.
“This is a case that is a priority for this president,” Jean-Pierre said Tuesday, adding that the U.S. will continue pressing for his release and seek consular access to him. Representatives from the U.S. Embassy haven’t been granted consular access to Gershkovich.
The Journal vehemently denies the charge against Gershkovich and continues to call for his immediate release.
Mr. Gershkovich’s lawyers met with him in prison Tuesday. “They said Evan’s health is good, and he is grateful for the outpouring of support from around the world,” said Emma Tucker, the Journal’s editor in chief.
“The legal avenue is one of several avenues we are working to advocate for Evan’s release,” she said. “We continue to work with the White House, State Department and relevant U.S. government officials to secure Evan’s release.”
Former President Donald Trump was charged on Tuesday with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic case over allegations he orchestrated hush-money payments to two women before the 2016 U.S. election to suppress publication of their sexual encounters with him. Prosecutors in Manhattan accused Trump, the first sitting or former U.S. president to face criminal charges, of trying to conceal a violation of election laws during his successful 2016 campaign.
"Not guilty," Trump, 76, said when asked by the judge in court how he pleaded. Wearing a dark blue suit and red tie, Trump sat, subdued, with his hands folded at the defense table flanked by his lawyers.
On his flight back to Florida, over fast food from McDonald’s, the former president and his entourage put the final touches on his response: A speech that would serve as both a rebuttal to prosecutors and a reboot of the comeback bid for the White House he launched almost five months ago.
Before hundreds of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach on Tuesday night, Trump assailed the 34-count indictment as politically motivated and sought to link the case to grievances he’s long deployed to great effect to hold sway over his supporters. “The only crime that I’ve committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” he said. “They can’t beat us at the ballot box, so they try and beat us through the law.”
Donald Trump tore into the judge and district attorney in New York who oversaw his arraignment on Tuesday, going after Judge Juan Merchan's family and calling Alvin Bragg a 'criminal' in front of a packed crowd of supporters at Mar-a-Lago but his wife Melania was nowhere to be seen. Trump let his frustration with the case shine through and slammed his legal opposition, despite a warning from Judge Merchan to use his words carefully in order to avoid a gag order.
Speaking for less than 30 minutes, former President Trump was subdued, and it seemed that the day had taken its toll on him. But he didn't stop with lambasting the case in New York. Rather, he turned his attention to additional legal jeopardy he faces. https://t.co/Y0M5k6T4Ym
The 76-year-old former president described his foes as a 'Trump-hating judge with a Trump-hating wife and a family whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris,' which drew groans from the crowd. Trump went through a litany of crimes he claims have been committed against him, including both impeachments, his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him, that the government spied on his 2016 presidential campaign, the FISA warrants against his advisers, and investigations into reports Russia tried to influence the election in his favor. Daughter Tiffany Trump and sons Eric and Don Jr were present during the speech but Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner were noticeably absent.
➤NOW STORMY HAS TO PAY TRUMP: The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued a six-page order directing Stormy Daniels to pay nearly $122,000 in legal fees to Trump’s attorneys. That sum is in addition to the more than $293,000 that Daniels had been ordered to pay after losing a libel case against the former president in federal district court and $245,000 for unsuccessfully pursuing an earlier appeal. The New York and California cases aren’t directly related, but the timing was striking since they involve the same underlying events: Daniels’ claim that she had an affair with Trump — which he has denied — and efforts by Trump’s former longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to stop her story from becoming public ahead of the 2016 presidential election by orchestrating a $130,000 hush-money payment.
Chicago Tribune 4/5/23
➤CHICAGO ELECTS PROGRESSIVE NEW MAYOR: Brandon Johnson, a union organizer and former teacher, was elected as Chicago’s next mayor Tuesday in a major victory for the Democratic Party’s progressive wing as the heavily blue city grapples with high crime and financial challenges. Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, won a close race over former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas, who was backed by the police union.
On the eve of Donald Trump’s historic arrest and arraignment, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow scored a rare victory over Fox News Channel, with The Rachel Maddow Show winning the 9 p.m. ET hour over FNC’s Hannity.
Forbes reports Maddow drew a total audience of 2.515 million viewers, just +1.8% ahead of Hannity’s 2.496 million viewers. On CNN, Erin Burnett anchored the 9 p.m. hour and drew a total audience of 742,000 viewers. In the key demographic of viewers 25-54, Maddow finished first with 298,000 viewers, followed by Hannity (249,000 viewers) and Burnett (208,000 viewers).
The highest-rated show in cable news on the night was Tucker Carlson Tonight, which drew a total audience of 3.246 million viewers, well ahead of MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes (1.656 million viewers) and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 (949,000 viewers).
In the key demo, Tucker Carlson Tonight finished first with 435,000 viewers, followed by Anderson Cooper 360 (232,000 viewers) and All In with Chris Hayes (181,000 viewers).
Carlson brought in 3.25 million total viewers on Monday, while The Five scored 3.23 million total viewers. The Five has reigned in recent months as the top-rated show on cable, but Carlson has offered stiff competition for the crown lately.
In the key 25-54 age demographic, Carlson topped the charts with 435,000 viewers. The Five came in second with 338,000 demo viewers.
BOOST 95.5 KXBS/St. Louis has announced Ya Girl Nikki (Nikki Davis) will join the lineup to host Morning Drive.
Nikki most recently held down afternoons on WPEG Power 98 in Charlotte, NC. Her previous stops include Foxy 99/Fayetteville and K975/Raleigh, among others. Operations manager Mike Couchman says “Nikki’s track record in Hip Hop radio, her off-air skills, and most importantly her passion for faith make her a great fit for the mission of BOOST.”
Nikki Davis
Nikki will work alongside co-host NTEG (short for N’Tegrity), who moved to a full time role with BOOST in December, 2022. NTEG graduated as a valedictorian from the Ex’Treme Institute by Nelly, with a degree in recording engineering, production, and management. He’s spent his entire career in the St. Louis Hip Hop and radio scene. Couchman says “NTEG is a man with many talents, including a natural knack for doing great radio! We’re excited to see how God uses him and Nikki to bless BOOST listeners.”
The duo will debut this summer on BOOST 95.5/St. Louis, the flagship signal for the growing BOOST Radio network, currently simulcasting in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Portland, Pittsburgh, and Fayetteville, NC.
Cox Media Group (CMG) has announced Jodi Rainey has been promoted to Vice President of National Sales within its Radio business. In her new role, Jodi will oversee national, network and political sales for CMG’s 52 radio stations in 11 markets across the company.
Jodi came to CMG in 2001 and brings nearly 25 years of industry experience to the National Sales team. Along the way, she’s cultivated a track record of success in sales and sales leadership and has produced consistent share growth and exceeded revenue goals in multiple CMG markets.
Jody Rainey
“Jodi is an outstanding leader and strategic thinker, and she’s passionate about delivering results for our clients and our company,” said Rob Babin, EVP, CMG Radio. “She has a deep understanding of our business, and I’m confident she’ll continue to deliver exceptional results while leading our National Sales team.”
Prior to her new role, Jodi was the Director of National Sales, leading CMG Radio’s National sales strategy and team. As part of this role, she served as the National Sales Manager in Jacksonville, San Antonio, Tampa, and Tulsa markets. Before that, she spent years working in-market – including Atlanta, Tampa and Jacksonville – to help meet her customers’ advertising needs while driving CMG Radio’s business.
“I’m honored to have the opportunity to work with an already successful team of talented and experienced leaders,” Jodi said. “We’ll continue to be laser focused on delivering results for our clients, creating growth for CMG, and positively impacting the listeners and communities across our markets.”
Noncompete clauses have been a regular condition for employees at local television news stations for decades, keeping both on and off-air employees from moving to another station in the same market for up to a year after their contract ends.
The Federal Trade Commission is moving to severely curb noncompete clauses, but trade associations are fighting the change, saying that the news outlets spend considerable time training and marketing their journalists. One study found that 90% of news anchors, 78% of TV reporters and 87% of weathercasters are bound by non-competes, reports The NYTimes.
The restrictions have been a condition of the job for reporters, anchors, sportscasters and meteorologists for decades. More recently, they’ve spread to off-air roles like producers and editors — positions that often pay just barely above the poverty line — and they keep employees from moving to other stations in the same market for up to a year after their contract ends.
For that reason, there’s probably no industry that could change as much as a result of the Federal Trade Commission’s effort to severely limit noncompete clauses — if the proposed rule is not derailed before being finalized. Business trade associations are lobbying fiercely against it.
“The vast majority of people who work in this country, if they find themselves in a bad situation and they don’t like it, they have options to leave, and they don’t have to move,” said Rick Carr, an agent who represents broadcast workers. “And TV doesn’t allow that.”
Noncompete clauses have become standard in many workplaces and cover about 18 percent of the U.S. labor force, according to research by economists at the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan.
In broadcasting, though, noncompetes are ubiquitous. According to a survey of TV news directors by Bob Papper, an adjunct professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, about 90 percent of news anchors, 78 percent of reporters and 87 percent of weathercasters were bound by noncompetes in 2022. Those numbers have been fairly stable for decades.
The National Association of Broadcasters — which signed on to a multiindustry letter opposing the federal government’s proposed ban — says that because stations promote their reporters and anchors to develop their local brand recognition, they should be able to prevent them from "crossing the street."
➦In 1922…KOB-AM Albuquerque, New Mexico signed-on.
Ralph Goddard
The station was founded at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Las Cruces (now New Mexico State University) by Ralph Willis Goddard, and began broadcasting tests in 1919 under the call letters 5XD. On April 5, 1922 the station began regular operation as KOB, a callsign which had belonged to marine radio aboard the Princess Anne before its February 2, 1920 shipwreck on Rockaway Shoals, Long Island. New Mexico A&M sold the station after Goddard was electrocuted while adjusting the transmitter on December 31, 1928. In 1933 the station moved to Albuquerque, and was later bought by the Albuquerque Journal.
In 1948, Tom Pepperday, owner and publisher of the Journal, signed on KOB-TV, the first television station between the Mississippi River and the West Coast. The stations passed to Time-Life in 1952 and to Hubbard Broadcasting in 1957. Hubbard Broadcasting sold the radio stations in 1986. In order to trade on the well-known KOB calls, the new owners simply added an extra "K" to the radio station's call letters.
KOB was involved in a 38-year-long dispute with New York City station WABC (originally WJZ) over the use of the 770 kHz frequency. KOB was moved there from 1030 to make room for WBZ in Boston. While the Federal Communications Commission requested that WJZ install a directional antenna to allow the stations to interoperate over large areas, the station refused to comply, encroaching on the range KOB was intended to cover. Only after reaching the U.S. Supreme Court was the issue settled, when the FCC assigned KOB to a new license class. KKOB and WABC became sister stations when Citadel Broadcasting purchased ABC Radio in 2007; Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.
➦In 1922…WDZ-AM, Decatur, Illinois signed-on.
WDZ started in the office of the James Bush grain elevator in Tuscola, Illinois. The original call sign was 9JR and the original intent of the station was to broadcast grain reports, making it the first radio station to do so. The station later started mixing some music in with the grain reports.
The radio station's power was increased to 1000 watts in 1939 with a new 252-foot (77 m) tower. During that time, WDZ used remote broadcasts that was unique for a rural station. The station started the use of remote broadcasting equipment which included a truck called, the "WDZ 'White Relay Truck"', equipped with a 100-watt transmitter to relay broadcasts from area locations, and some two-watt, battery operated transmitters that could be worn on the backs of assistants when a program originated from remote sites. The station was on 1020 kHz in 1941, but changed to 1050 kHz, and has remained there since.
1050 kHz has been a Mexican Clear Channel since 1941 (was a U.S. Clear Channel before 1941), and U.S. operations on Mexican Clear Channels was restricted to 1,000 watts and to daytime operations, only, until the "Rio" treaty took effect in the late 1980s (before 1941, 1020 kHz was a U.S. Clear Channel and that, too, was restricted). After "Rio" took effect, it was a simple matter for WDZ to add night operations with as little as 250 watts, and today the station is indeed operating with its pre-"Rio" maximum daytime power and its post-"Rio" minimum nighttime power. Anything more than 1,000 watts days and 250 watts nights very likely would require installation of a directional antenna system at great capital expense. WDZ is diplexed (i.e., it uses the very same vertical radiator) with co-owned WSOY.
WDZ Performer's Studio
In 1949, the station moved from Tuscola to Decatur. The relocation of WDZ from Tuscola to the west and to Decatur greatly facilitated the eventual allocation of a station on 1080 kHz in Oak Lawn, suburban Chicago, IL.
WDZ Transmitter Studio
On March 31, 2008, the station switched to a sports radio format as part of the Fox Sports Radio network. Within a year the station switched programming from Fox Sports Radio to ESPN Radio.
WDZ and its sister stations WCZQ 105.5 FM Monticello and WDZQ 95.1 FM, 1340 WSOY 1340 AM and WSOY 102.9 FM Decatur, were sold to Neuhoff Media in February 2009.
Today, WDZ 1050 AM, powers with 1000 Kw-Day, 250 watts Night. and airs ESPN Sports.
➦In 1927...The NBC Orange Network started distributing programs. Also known as the NBC Pacific Coast network it was a National Broadcasting Company radio network in the western United States from 1927 to 1936, before two-way broadcast-quality communications circuits reached the West to relay the larger NBC Red Network and NBC Blue Network.
After 33 years, Audacy Chicago VP of Programming and CHR WBBM (B96) and Classic Hip Hop WBMX (104.3 Jams) Program Director Todd Cavanah has resigned his positions.
Cavanah issued the following statement:
"I always tell my wife Erin when we arrive at a big event to “say hello to everyone and goodbye to no one” this way we can leave quickly.
"It’s unheard of especially in this business, to work for the same station for 33 years but I did it. I have been fortunate to work with so many amazing people these past three decades. We generated millions and millions of dollars with our amazing brands B96 and 104-3 JAMS. We put the biggest superstar artists on our Summer Bash and Jingle Bash stages! At last count I believe I’ve also trained eleven or twelve Market Managers.
"There are way too many people to thank for making me look so good over the years but I want to thank two people specifically. First, Dave Shakes who hired me away from Elektra Records in 1990 to be his APD/Music Director and then I eventually replaced him as Program Director in 1993.
"Secondly, the most amazing human being on planet earth, Erik Bradley. He was my first hire as PD in October 1993. I told my Market Manager back then that this guy I want to hire will be the Michael Jordan of the radio industry! I scouted that one correctly. E Money B, thank you for everything!
"Well, I’m going to ignore my own advice and say goodbye to everyone.
"After much consideration I have decided to part ways with Audacy and spend the summer traveling with my boys as they play baseball all across the country. I am looking forward to embarking on my next career opportunity. I will soon be a free agent and excited to see what my next 33 year job will be."
Cavanah was named VP/P for then CBS Radio in 2016. Previously, he held Program Director duties for WJMK-FM. Before arriving in Chicago, he spent four years as a local promotion representative at Elektra Records in Denver before working in the programming department at KRXY-FM.
Audacy Chicago Regional President Rachel Williamson, "Not many can build a music brand like Todd Cavanah. With Todd at the helm, B96 became one of the most iconic brands in Chicago and throughout Top 40 nationwide, and 104.3 Jams launched to the top of Chicago radio within months of its birth. But even more than the major accomplishments, Todd has been a great teammate. We wish him the best of luck in this next phase of his career and will miss his warmth and camaraderie."
Audacy EVP, Head of Programming Jeff Sottolano added, "It would be hard to overstate the impact on Chicago radio Todd Cavanah has had. In addition to building B96 into one of the marquee top 40 brands in America and curating incredible "Jingle Bash" and "Summer Bash" events, he also led the successful launch of 104.3 Jams. As evidenced by the talent and programmers Todd has mentored through the years, he is not only an A+ professional but an A+ human being. He will be missed by everyone at Audacy as we wish him the best in his next chapter."
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