BREAKING NEWS – Page 3 – RAMP – Radio and Music Pros

Thomas Named Brand Manager, Beasley Tampa

• Beasley Media Group has named Rick Thomas as Brand Manager of the company’s Tampa Bay radio group and PD

• Lou Merloni, who has been full-time weekday host on Audacy Sports-Talk WEEI/Boston for the past 11 years, is being let

• As we recently teased, Andy “Riggs” Riggle has indeed joined Cox Media Group Country KKBQ (93Q)/Houston as morning co-host,

• Columbia Records has entered into a joint venture with former Capitol Records Chairman & CEO Jeff Vaughnto launch Signal

• Olivia Newton-John, the Australia-raised singer and actress who became a country-pop, folk-pop, rock-pop, disco-pop sensation in the 1970s, starred

• Cumulus Media and Westwood One announced an executive reorganization, which included the departure of several key programmers, the discontinuation

• iHeartMedia and Charlamagne Tha God announced the first-ever Black Effect Podcast Festival to celebrate, uplift and amplify Black voices

• Beasley Media Group and legendary WMMR/Philadelphia morning duo Preston and Steve have mutually signed a multi-year contract extension that

• Silk Sonic, Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste dominated the “Big Four” Grammy Awards during Sunday evening’s 64th Annual GRAMMY

• Tom March has been named President of Geffen Records in the U.S. March, who as Co-President of Polydor Records