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AudioSphere LLC has shifted its country station, KZAL Manson, WA (94.7) to classic country as \u201cThe Bull 94.7,\u201d positioning it as \u201cTrue Country From the 90s Beyond.\u201d The station has Randy Roadz in mornings and Jeff Conwell in afternoon drive. AudioSphere purchased KZAL, which had been known as \u201cZ Country 94.7\u201d for more than a decade, in 2025. The Wenatchee, WA, area has two other country stations, Townsquare Media \u201cKissin\u2019 97.7\u201d KYSN and Connoisseur Media \u201cCountry 104.7\u201d KKRV.Northeast Broadcasting adult alternative \u201c92.5 The River\u201d WXRV Boston, in conjunction with The Salisbury Beach Partnership, will host the station\u2019s 24th annual free Riverfest Music Festival Aug. 22 with headliners Spin Doctors \u2013 best known for their hits \u201cTwo Princes\u201d and \u201cLittle Miss Can’t Be Wrong\u201d \u2013 along with Buffalo Tom, Fantastic Cat and Gavin Marengi. \u201cThere’s something magical about live music by the ocean, and this year’s lineup captures everything our listeners love about 92.5 the River\u2014iconic artists, exciting new discoveries and outstanding local talent,\u201d WXRV Music Director Olivia Lowe says.
\n The Michigan Association of Broadcasters has announced its 2026 award recipients, to be honored Sept. 1 as a part of the MAB’s Evening of Excellence. Former WDBI-FM Tawas City owner, President and General Manager Don Backus will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, while MAB\u2019s Hall of Fame includes Detroit Pistons radio play-by-play announcer Mark Champion; VP and General Manager of Results Broadcasting country WJNR, CHR WOBE and classic hits WHTO Marquette Trisha Peterson; and journalist, author, musician and former WDIV-TV Detroit news anchor Devin Scillian. Audacy WWJ \u201cNewsradio 950\u201d and sports \u201c97.1 The Ticket\u201d WXYT Detroit anchor and reporter Luke Sloan will receive the MAB Foundation\u2019s Young Professional award.The nationally syndicated \u201cAnna & Raven Show,\u201d a joint venture between Connoisseur Media and Compass Media Networks, has added three new affiliates for a total 90 markets: hot ACs Federated Media WMEE (97.3) Fort Wayne, IN and American General Media \u201cMix 105.1\u201d KKRG Albuquerque, and Cromwell Media classic hits \u201cTotally Hits 93.3\u201d WBUZ-HD4 Nashville. \u201cOur affiliates are our family, and we are committed to delivering our humor and authenticity to each market,\u201d the show\u2019s Anna Zap says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Bites for July 21… AudioSphere LLC has shifted its country station, KZAL Manson, WA (94.7) to classic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,710,61,60,278,43],"class_list":["post-561494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561494","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=561494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}