Management change at iHeartMedia’s Black-oriented stations

Kashon Powell replaces Derrick Brown in role A mangement change at iHeartMedia’s cluster targeting Black audiences was announced Friday as Kashon Powell succeeds Derrick Brown as Vice President of Programming. Effective immediately, she takes over programming duties for Hip-Hop WGCI-FM, Adult R&B V103/WVAZ, Gospel WGRB-AM, and all-news WMFN (640 AM), which is part of the Black Information Network.  “I am […]

D.C. programmer joins iHeartMedia Chicago

Howard hopes to take cluster to new level There isn’t much going on in D.C. these days with the government shutdown, but one radio programmer is hoping to inject some excitement in the Chicago radio scene. As first reported by Radio Insight last week, iHeartMedia Chicago has hired James Howard to become Senior Vice President of Programming for the six-station […]