August 2020 – Page 6 – RAMP – Radio and Music Pros

KBKS/Seattle Rebrands As HITS 106.1

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 kevincarter iHeartMedia, Jubal, KBKS

• iHeartMedia Top 40 KBKS (106.1 Kiss FM)/Seattle has officially rebranded as HITS 106.1, “The New Home of The Jubal

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Ayeeedubb Returning Home To Raleigh

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 kevincarter Radio One, Urban One

• Earlier this week we reported that Ayeeedubb was leaving her morning position at Albany Broadcasting Rhythmic WAJZ (Jamz 96.3)/Albany, NY

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Rubber City Rearrangement

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 kevincarter Rubber City Radio, WONE

• More changes are happening inside the Rubber City Radio broadcast complex in Akron, OH — earlier this week we

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Ravens Set Radio Broadcast Team

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 kevincarter WBAL, WIYY

• Hearst Television’s WIYY (98 Rock), WBAL-AM (NewsRadio 1090/101.5)/Baltimore and the Baltimore Ravens have set their on-air radio broadcast team

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Horton Earns EVP Stripes @ Republic

August 19, 2020August 20, 2020 kevincarter Republic Records

• Republic Records has promoted Michael Horton to Executive Vice President — as just announced by Founder and CEO Monte

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Riley Named Ops. Director, CMG/Jacksonville

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 kevincarter Cox Media Group

• Cox Media Group (CMG) Jacksonville has named Jules Riley Operations Director, effective August 24. In this role, Riley will

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Remembering Jeff Levine

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 kevincarter

• 2020 has become the saddest year on record — today we received word that we have lost yet another

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Soundtrack Your Brand Pacts With UMG

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 kevincarter Soundtrack, UMG

• Soundtrack Your Brand, the pioneering business-to-business cloud-based music streaming service and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a global licensing

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Max Upped To PD of The Fox/Appleton-Oshkosh

August 18, 2020 kevincarter Cumulus Media, WWWX

• On the heels of Brian Davis‘ arrival as the new Operations Manager of Cumulus Media’s Appleton-Oshkosh cluster, RAMP has

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$600 Mil Buys Concord Serious Expansion

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 kevincarter Concord Music

• After receiving first-time corporate credit ratings of B1 and B+ from Moody’s and S&P last month, Concord announce that