Just a week after being promoted to vice president and general manager of KMOX in St. Louis, Tom Langmyer is helping to console staff members following the murder of the station's popular morning show co-host last night. Nan Wyatt, 44, who first came to KMOX in 1990, was found slain in her home around 6 p.m.; her husband has been charged with first-degree murder.
The long-running local music show Soundcheck has been pulled from 95X's lineup. The station's program director, Bob O'Dell, says the decision was a tough one, but that Soundcheck didn't fit with 95X's recent format shift from classic to active rock.
Dick Carr's Big Bands, Ballads and Blues has been part of the Monday night lineup on Jazz 88 (WAER) since October 2001. Carr, a former Syracuse and New York City radio executive, recently connected with the WOR Radio Network to syndicate the show nationally.
Sunny 102.1 (WZUN) has added Premeire Radio's Leeza Gibbons Hollywood Confidential to its weekend lineup. The three-hour mix of music, celebrity interviews, and entertainment news, hosted by the former Entertainment Tonight anchor, airs Sundays beginning at 9 a.m.
A former radio show host from Bosnia and his son, Emir and Almir Loncaric, will debut a new weekly hour-long show on WVOA this weekend. The program, which will air Sunday nights at 6 p.m., will highlight music, news, and events in their homeland and the local community of Bosnian immigrants.
K-Rock's midday personality, 'Silent Bob' Staffa, has been named the station's new promotions director. Bob also hosts K-Rock's local music show Backstage Live.
Former WSYR/WYYY operations director, Tom Langmyer, has been named vice president and general manager of St. Louis market leader KMOX AM. He moved from Syracuse to the news/talk station in 1992 to serve as program director and was named operations manager in 2000.
Langmyer is a nominee for a 2003 R&R News/Talk Industry Achievement Award as programmer of the year. KMOX was also nominated as News/Talk station of the year.
Sunny 102.1's Big Mike is this week's guest host on WTVH 5's Freaky Flix and Food. Mike and co-host Chef William from the Wagner Winery will cook up something tasty while presenting the 1977 gruesome B-movie 'The Worm Eaters.' Show time is 11:30 this Saturday night, February 15 on channel 5.
Since last month's departure of the show's regular host, Ron Curtis, Jr., WTVH has been using guest hosts to fill-in until they hire a permanent replacement.
Tommy Nast, publisher of The Network trade magazine, is moving on. The former Syracuse radio personality has accepted a position as executive vice president of business development for AEG, a leading national sports and entertainment company. Associate publisher Miller London will take over Nast's role at The Network for now.
Nast worked as a jock at 94 Rock (WSYR) in Syracuse during the late 70s and early 80s.
Could it be goodbye to K-Rock on 101.3 FM? Scott Fybush reports that the 108 watt (210' HAAT) translator is being sold by Galaxy Communications to M&D Translators, Inc. W267AL has been relaying WKRL 100.9 FM's signal.