Campbell To Host CheckpointXP

• Beasley eSports, a division of Beasley Media Group, LLC has named James Campbell as the new host of the company’s gaming program CheckpointXP, which is syndicated by Sun Broadcast Group on 70 radio stations across the U.S. and Canada and also featured on CheckpointXP.com, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. CheckpointXP can be heard weekly Thursday through Tuesday (based upon market).

Campbell is best known and loved as the longtime Producer of Beasley’s Detroit-based Dave & Chuck The Freak morning show, which is also heard in Boston, Ft. Myers and Tampa, FL. He’s pictured here (center), bookended by his co-hosts Robbie Landis (left) and Ric “Weird Beard” Hogerheide (right).

“We are absolutely thrilled to continue the partnership with Beasley Media Group to carry CheckpointXPon the Sun Broadcast Group Network,” said Rich O’Brien, VP of Programming & Affiliate Relations. “The show’s new line-up, featuring James, Robbie and Ric, provides stations with an exciting and unique opportunity to reach Gen Y and Z with the very latest lifestyle news and entertainment in the growing eSports space!”

A self-described “everyday gamer” who has already created a video series, The Casual Gamer and lends his take on comic and gaming pop culture to the Nerd Radio podcast, Campbell said, “I’m very excited to be able to use ‘video game research for work’ as an excuse to my fiancé to get out of house chores!”