Posts Tagged ‘Issue 493’

Audacy announced that veteran media executive Debbie Kenyon has been named Regional President for its Central US markets, representing some of the biggest names in local audio. Kenyon, currently Senior Vice President and Market Manager of Audacy Detroit, will assume broader responsibilities. During more than 25 years leading the Detroit market.

Graham Media Group has appointed Stephanie Slagle Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer and General Manager of WDIV-TV (Detroit). Slagle, who has served as the company’s vice president and chief revenue officer, expands her leadership to include full oversight of one of the country’s most respected local television stations.

WQHH-FM (Dewitt/Lansing) Program Director Brion O’Brion has been selected for the National Black Radio Hall of Fame.  O’Brion says getting that news brought him right back to where it all started, as a teenager learning radio hands on in Norfolk, Virginia, under his mentor Rick Partey. O’Brion was nominated in the “Talented Brothers of Radio Award” along with two others.

Fifty-year Detroit Radio legend Doug Podell who, in February, retired while at iHeart’s WLLZ-FM, decided to incorporate a reunion of some of the well-remembered personalities who were a part of Detroit’s first “underground” progressive rock and roll FM station, 99.5 WABX (now country WYCD).

Mid-West Family Broadcasting announced this week that it is bringing back “98.3 The Coast” branding on its WCXT-FM (Hartford/Benton Harbor).  For several years now the frequency was host to “Live 98.3” and featuring an alternative rock format.