KOGO Announces New Lineup

The Voice of Merrill featuring Chris Merrill joins the KOGO lineup weekday afternoons from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Chris Merrill, has enjoyed tremendous popularity as a radio personality over the past 12 years by combining his passion to entertain with a unique perspective of current events. The Voice of Merrill is a high energy program that is unlike traditional radio talk shows and the perfect addition to KOGO’s strong local programming lineup.
“We are excited about KOGO completing the transition that began last November as San Diego’s first news talk station broadcasting to a larger audience on both FM and AM frequencies,” said Market Manager/President, Debbie Wagner.
The LaDona Harvey Show, will now be heard weekdays from 12:00 Noon to 3:00 p.m. Friday. In evenings, the Bob “Sully” Sullivan Show will now air from from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. every weekday. KOGO’s new line up of news and talk programming also includes the addition of Lynda Martin as news anchor on Chip Franklin Mornings heard 5:00 to 9:00a.m.

Dave & Jeff Named XX 1090 Morning Talk Show Hosts

Dave & Jeff, an established and highly successful sports talk radio duo in San Diego, will begin hosting the new morning sports and entertainment talk radio show on XX 1090 Sports Radio, on Wednesday, Feb 8 from 6:00 am to 10:00 am according to Tex Meyer Vice President and General Manager of BCA Radio and XX1090 Sports radio. This time slot has been occupied for the last 11 years by The Scott & Billy Ray Show. Scott Kaplan has officially left the organization while Billy Ray Smith is still considering future projects.

Veteran Radio Show Host from East Coast John Nolan Joins the Walrus 105.7 FM as Morning Show Host

 

John Nolan, also known as "Nolan", will join the BCA-Radio San Diego team as the new morning show host on the Walrus 105.7 FM. He brings over 20 years of on-air experience to BCA-Radio San Diego.

Nolan leaves Star 92.9 WEZF in Burlington, Vermont, where he was one of the top-rated morning shows since 2004. Prior to working at Star 92.9, he spent time in the Washington DC. At WWZZ (Z104) he served as Billy Bush's morning co-host, and created a D.C. area literacy program for young adults. At WAVA (Power 105) he was the morning show producer and on-air personality for the Don and Mike show. At WPCG, Nolan served as morning show host and executive producer. In Baltimore, WBSB (B104) employed Nolan as morning show producer and on-air personality for the Brian and O'Brien show.

He studied television and radio at Northeast Broadcasting School in Boston while interning at WXKS. He also studied Lyndon State College and the American University's Applied Learning Program.

The announcement was made by BCA’s Programming-Operations Manager Mike Shepard.

New hires at CBS Radio

 

Mira Simon has returned to KyXy-FM and Sophie@103.7 as an Senior Account Manager.   Mira most recently worked at Clear Channel Communications as Director of Group Sales and is a certified professional coach.

Other recent additions are Susan Turman, Account Manager and Jamie Jackson, Account Manager, who joins CBS Radio in San Diego from Next Media in the San Francisco market.

San Diego TV News Anchor Joins KOGO

Lynda Martin, a veteran television news anchor and reporter in San Diego for the past 12 years, is the new morning news anchor on the Chip Franklin Morning Show that is heard weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on FM News & Talk 95.7 and AM 600 KOGO.

Lynda was evening anchor when XETV Channel 6 started back in 1999.  Lynda then anchored at KSWB Channel 5 and returned to XETV San Diego 6 as morning anchor four years ago.  
 
She has been nominated for 5 Emmy Awards and has won an Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news.  Lynda has been active as a volunteer for the Make a Wish Foundation and The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and was a Special Olympics Golf coach for 4 years. 

National Sales Manager

Claudia Gallego has been promoted to National Sales Manager for Uniradio Corp.  Claudia started her career with Uniradio in 2005 as the sales assistant.    

"El Mandril" is Back in San Diego

Uniradio announced the return of Ricardo Sanchez (aka “El Mandril”) to La Invasora 99.7 (XHTY-FM) in San Diego.

Ricardo began his U.S. broadcast career on Uniradio’s flagship station La Invasora in 2001, hosting the morning show, entertaining listeners in both San Diego and Tijuana until moving to Los Angeles in 2003. 

As afternoon drive personality on La Raza (KLAX), El Mandril entertained listeners in Los Angeles for over a decade.  His show ultimately reached the number one position among Hispanic listeners in the nation’s #1 Spanish Radio market.  This success in Los Angeles led parent company SBS to offer the El Mandril show for syndication nationwide and among the first stations to add El Mandril back to their lineup was his former home, Uniradio’s XHTY-La Invasora. 

His success in PM drive was rewarded by a promotion to AM Drive with parent company SBS which meant leaving the afternoon slot on La Invasora.  Uniradio now joins stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco, among others, in “re-welcoming” Mandril to the XHTY family of personalities as of January 5, 2012.

Chargers Renew Broadcast Rights with KIOZ-FM and KLSD-AM

Clear Channel Radio San Diego announced that an agreement has been reached with the NFL’s San Diego Chargers to continue exclusive radio broadcast rights for the 2012, 2013 and 2014 seasons, effective immediately.  Clear Channel’s Rock 105.3 KIOZ-FM has been the official radio broadcast station of the San Diego Chargers since 2005.  With regards to the announcement, Clear Channel San Diego President and Market Manager, Debbie Wagner said, “We’ve built a strong partnership with the San Diego Chargers over the past seven years and look forward to bringing San Diegans the excitement of NFL football on KIOZ-FM and KLSD-AM for another three seasons."  

In addition to live play-by-play coverage of all Chargers games, both KIOZ-FM and KLSD-AM air locally produced shows prior to and following each game. KLSD-AM dedicates programming time year-round with the “Chargers Power Hour” airing weekdays from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.