Ellis Follows His Heart For Service
• Sending our best wishes to Scott Ellis, Director of Content & Programming Operations for Mid-West Family Springfield, MO for the past two years, who is making a major career move – he’s joining ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, as Advisor — Area Development for the Springfield, region, effective Dec. 12. His last day with Mid-West Family is Dec. 9.
“Many thanks to Scott Ellis for all of the great work he has done to build both the on-air and online audiences of our stations in southwest Missouri,” said GM Brian Tyndall. “We applaud his heart for service and know he will do great things for our community with his new role at St. Jude.”
Concurrent with the announcement of Ellis’s impending departure, changes have been made to the local programming team — effective immediately, Michael Holmes, PD of Classic Rock KKLH (104.7 The Cave), will add programming duties for Active Rock KQRA (Q102), while Ray Michaels, PD of Country KOMG (105.1 The Bull) will annex PD stripes for Top 40 KOSP (92.9 The Beat).
Prior to returning to Springfield two years ago, Ellis programmed former Audacy Top 40 KNOU (NOW 96.3)/St. Louis. Ellis earlier spent over a decade programming Scripps (now SummitMedia) Top 40 KSPW (Power 96.5)/Springfield, an earlier in his career Ellis held programming roles at KKLR and KJEZ/Poplar Bluff, MO.
