{"id":495550,"date":"2026-06-25T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:12:08","slug":"iheart-fires-multiple-on-air-talents-in-davenport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495550\/","title":{"rendered":"iHeart fires multiple on-air talents in Davenport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) &#8211; Multiple on-air personalities from Davenport\u2019s iHeartMedia stations have been fired. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Longtime radio hosts Mark Manuel and Dani Lyne Howe, who each have over 30 years of broadcasting experience, confirmed the layoffs in Facebook posts on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Manuel served as a multi-market program director and afternoon host for both The New BIG 106.6 in the Quad Cities and 100.7 The Fox in the Iowa City\/Cedar Rapids area .<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Howe was a co-host on WLLR\u2019s \u201cLeuck and Howe Morning Show.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Multiple stations across the country are also experiencing layoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Des Moines station, KXnO, laid off a portion of on-air talent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The layoffs come as iHeartMedia rolls out a new restructuring program that will change its technology capabilities for efficiency and support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">KWQC has reached out to iHeartMedia for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWQC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) &#8211; Multiple on-air personalities from Davenport\u2019s iHeartMedia stations have been fired. Longtime radio hosts Mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[248080,248075,248073,156,248072,3799,4858,248081,248074,157,111,139,69,248077,179443,248076,248079,248078],"class_list":["post-495550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-100-7-the-fox","tag-dani-lyne-howe","tag-davenport","tag-entertainment","tag-iheart-layoffs","tag-iheartmedia","tag-layoffs","tag-leuck-and-howe-morning-show","tag-mark-manuel","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on-air-talents","tag-radio-broadcasting","tag-radio-show-host","tag-the-new-big-106-5","tag-wllr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495550","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=495550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}