{"id":13662,"date":"2025-09-10T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13662\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:53:08","slug":"connoisseur-media-expands-programming-leadership-team-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13662\/","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Media Expands Programming Leadership Team. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connoisseur Media, now a much larger radio group after the completion of its acquisition of Alpha Media, continues the rapid expansion of its programming team across the country. The company has announced a slate of new format coordinators following the recent promotion of Keith Dakin<\/a> to Senior Vice President of Programming. The company says the moves will strengthen its ability to respond quickly and effectively across its markets.<\/p>\n

Among the new format coordinators are Ben Davis, Top 40, based in Louisville, KY, where he programs WDJX (99.7) and co-hosts mornings; Kevin Begley, Hot AC, based in Metro Fairfield, CT, who programs WEZN (99.9) and is tied to the success of the syndicated \u201cAnna and Raven Show\u201d; Darrick \u201cBrown\u201d Williams, Urban\/Rhythmic Top 40, based in Columbia, SC, who adds Rhythmic oversight to his role as Operations Manager of the cluster; Ross MacLeod, News\/Talk, based in Portland, OR, Program Director at KXL-FM (101.1); Rob Kelley, Country, based in Lincoln, NE, who also works in Topeka and continues his role from Alpha Media; and Allan Lamberti, Rock, based in New Haven, CT, a 20-year Connoisseur veteran who programs WPLR (99.1) and WICC (600).<\/p>\n

Additionally, Patrick Shea, based on Long Island, will work with emerging technology and radio automation companies, part of Connoisseur\u2019s efforts to drive innovation and efficiency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese moves today will allow us to have a dedicated group of programmers that can work with our local markets, partners, vendors, and the record community on a one-to-one basis,\u201d Dakin said in a release. \u201cThe idea here is that we will always have someone who can fix a problem, answer a question, and, most importantly, make a decision. Radio, to stay relevant, needs to have empowered leaders that can make things happen fast. I believe today we have that team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Media, now a much larger radio group after the completion of its acquisition of Alpha Media, continues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4975,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-13662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}