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Category: Knoxville Media News
Tennessee sports talk radio host who lived on billboard until Vols won a game in 1988 says someone should do it again this year
Duncan Stewart is a diehard Tennessee Volunteers fan. The former sports talk radio host and sports director of WSIX in Nashville has never shied away from his love of the football team, and he took that to another level back in 1988…literally. And now, he thinks someone should follow in his footsteps. The 1988 season…
Q100 Knoxville Relaunches As 100.3 The Wolf
WCYQ Knoxville TN as “100.3 The Wolf“. Positioning as “New Country Now”, the launch sees the addition of the Bobby Bones Show for mornings while former morning hosts Opie Joe and Carina Lime moving to afternoons. Dana Lundon continues to track middays from sister 104.7 WZZK Birmingham. SummitMedia Knoxville has launched a new Country radio…
Former Top Creative at JWT, CPB and Barton F. Graf Joins Tombras
Jeff Benjamin, a former chief creative officer at JWT North America and Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CPB), has joined independent agency Tombras. He is the Knoxville-based agency’s first CCO. Most recently, Benjamin served as a partner and executive creative director at Barton F. Graf, which is closing at the end of the year. “Jeff is…
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All Access: Loyd Ford Parts Ways With WCYQ/Knoxville
LOYD FORD has departed his position as PD for SUMMITMEDIA Country WCYQ (Q100.3)/KNOXVILLE after four and a half months on the job. FORD is looking for his next opportunity, and can be reached here or by phone at 864-448-4169. FORD has an extensive radio programming background, and most recently operated RAINMAKER PATHWAY CONSULTING in GREENVILLE,…
Ex-meteorologist sues WVLT Channel 8, claims noncompete contract had expired
Former WVLT-TV Channel 8 Chief Meteorologist David Aldrich is suing the news station, seeking to free himself from a noncompete clause in his contract that he claims has kept him from finding work since the company fired him in April. The lawsuit claims Aldrich’s then boss, Tony Bernhardt, coerced him in 2017 into signing the…
Dex & Barbie T Get Syndicated To Knoxville
On Aug 12, 2019SummitMedia Rhythmic CHR “Hot 104.5” WKHT Knoxville TN is adding Dex and Barbie T for mornings. The show will continue to be based at SummitMedia’s “Hot 98.1” WHZT Williamston/Greenville SC where the duo have been paired together since August 2017 when Mitchell joined the station. Dex Mitchell has previously hosted mornings in…
Sook’s Stock Swoon: Nexstar Erases Six Months Of Gains
How critical is a new retransmission consent agreement for one of the nation’s largest TV broadcasting companies, an entity that still awaits FCC approval of its proposed merger with Tribune Media? For Nexstar Media Group, the lack of a retrans deal with AT&T for its three TV services is wreaking havoc for a stock that…