{"id":233098,"date":"2026-01-07T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:20:12","slug":"more-connoisseur-country-morning-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233098\/","title":{"rendered":"More Connoisseur Country Morning Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dannymiller-200x200-jpg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Danny Miller Bay Country 94.5 KBAY San Jose\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-332800\"  \/>In addition to launching a new <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/332402\/98-7-the-bull-to-debut-jr-ramsey-jake-byron-mallory-santic-in-mornings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-person morning show<\/a> in Portland, Connoisseur Media has gone local in mornings at their Country stations in the Bay Area and Palm Springs and changed syndicated shows in Tyler\/Longview TX.<\/p>\n<p>At \u201c<a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.kbaycountry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bay Country<\/a>\u201d 94.5 KBAY San Jose\/92.1 KKDV Walnut Creek, midday host Danny Miller moves up to mornings. Miller has been with KBAY since 2005 serving as a weekend host there and sister Hot AC \u201cMix 106.5\u201d KEZR before <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/208485\/danny-miller-rises-to-afternoon-host-at-kbay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moving to afternoons<\/a> in 2021. When the station flipped to Country in 2022, Miller first <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/228823\/danny-miller-to-host-nights-at-kbay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosted nights<\/a> before moving to middays.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing Miller in middays is weekend host Tony Michaels. Michaels has hosted weekends at KBAY\/KKDV since 2022 after two previous stints at Country 95.3 KRTY San Jose from 1990-99 and 2017-22. He has also worked at KATM Modesto and KYCY and KFRC San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><img data-od-added-fetchpriority=\"\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[4][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" fetchpriority=\"low\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/toddvioletter-200x200-jpg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Todd Violette 98.5 The Bull KDES Palm Springs\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-332801\"  \/>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.985thebull.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">98.5 The Bull<\/a>\u201d KDES-FM Palm Springs, <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/316623\/todd-violette-joins-connoisseur-palm-springs-as-operations-manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently appointed<\/a> Operations Manager\/PD Todd Violette will host mornings from 6-9am. Violette has previously held programming roles for iHeartMedia in Indianapolis and St. Louis, Cumulus Media Oxnard CA, APD\/MD\/on-air for KZZO Sacramento and KRBZ Kansas City, co-hosted mornings at KHTE Little Rock, and worked on-air at KIIS-FM Los Angeles and Westwood One.<\/p>\n<p>Both replace Premiere Networks\u2019 Bobby Bones Show. Connoisseur also dropped Bones at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kykx1057.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">105.7 KYKX<\/a> Longview\/Tyler TX bringing Compass Media Networks\u2019 Big D &amp; Bubba back to the market for the third time. The show was on Townsquare Media\u2019s 101.5 KNUE from 2000 <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/211357\/knue-launches-local-morning-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to 2021<\/a> and then immediately moved to KYKX\u2019s sister Classic Country \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theranch.fm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">104.1 The Ranch<\/a>\u201d KKUS until being <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/300435\/kkus-revamps-with-move-to-westwood-one-programming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dropped last May<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to launching a new three-person morning show in Portland, Connoisseur Media has gone local in mornings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-233098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}