Entercom Communications, which owns country station K-FROG 95.1 and alternative rock stalwart KROQ-FM, unveiled a new nationwide programming slate on Monday that replaces local radio hosts with syndicated out-of-town personalities in many time slots.
Entercom did not respond to requests for comment, but details of the changes already are represented by new schedules posted on individual stations around the country, as well as reports on broadcast industry news sites such as AllAccess.com.
The Inland Empire-based K-FROG 95.1 will lose most of its local weekday hosts as a result of the shake-up.
“The Wake Up Call” morning show, which on Friday said goodbye to Ginny Harman, one of its three hosts, will continue with current hosts David Bugenske and Kelli “Green” Barajas.
From there, though, the rest of the Monday-Friday lineup looks nothing like it did before, with 10 hours each weekday hosted from studios thousands of miles from K-FROG’s Colton studio.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. K-FROG will broadcast “Katie & Co.,” a New York City-based show hosted by Katie Neal on Entercom’s country station in cosmopolitan New York City.
Her arrival bumps Heather Froglear to the afternoon drive shift where she will now team up with Kimo Jenson, a longtime host at KSON-FM/103.7 in San Diego, for “Kimo & Heather,” a program that will be syndicated regionally. They replace Anthony Donatelli who now moves to weekends on K-FROG.
The nighttime shift at the station becomes the “Rob and Holly Show,” a nationally syndicated program hosted by Rob Stone and Holly Hutton at Entercom’s country station in Detroit. They replace Vicki Pepper, who will continue to work for the station on weekends as well.
At KROQ-FM in Los Angeles/Pasadena, no current hosts lost their gigs as part of the Entercom reorganization, and some will expand into new markets.
The biggest change for local listeners is the announcement that Kevan Kenney, the nighttime host at Alt 92.3 in New York City and host of MTV’s “TRL Top 10,” will be syndicated weeknights from 7 p.m. to midnight on KROQ.
In March, when KROQ fired longtime morning host Kevin Ryder and replaced him with the current team of Stryker and Klein, it left the nighttime slot for rotating hosts. The decision now gives it a regular host, if one on the opposite side of the country.
The rest of KROQ’s weekday personalities — morning team Stryker and Klein, midday host Nicole Alvarez, and afternoon personality Megan Holiday — will not only keep their current gigs but now be syndicated on various Entercom alternative stations in radio markets around the country.
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