{"id":405643,"date":"2026-07-20T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405643\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:25:09","slug":"pros-on-the-loose-j-love-ramp-radio-and-music-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405643\/","title":{"rendered":"Pros On The Loose: J Love \u2013 RAMP \u2013 Radio and Music Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"282\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/J-Love-web.jpg\" data- class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58628 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/J-Love-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"282\"  \/>\u2022 RAMP has learned that J Love is now a free agent, as his position as Operations Manager for Connoisseur Media Hot AC KEZR (Mix 106.5) and Bay Country simulcast \u2014 94.5 KBAY\/San Jose &amp; 94.5 KKDV\/Walnut Creek, CA has been eliminated after a year on the job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That development comes on the heels of the recent announcement that Connoisseur was spinning off 94.5 to Christian broadcaster K-Love, Inc. for $2 million. Effective this Wednesday, July 22 at 12 noon, Bay Country will move from 94.5 to 98.5, the current home of Classic Rock sibling KUFX (98.5 K-Fox)\/San Jose, which will simultaneously relocate to 98.5 KUFX-HD2 in San Jose, 99.7 KMVQ-HD3\/San Francisco and <a href=\"http:\/\/KFOX.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KFOX.com<\/a>. Bay Country will retain its existing simulcast partner on 92.1 KKDV\/Walnut Creek, CA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love was named to his OM post in August 2025, just before Connoisseur acquired Alpha Media. Before that he spent the better part of a decade as Brand Manager of Audacy Hot AC KMXB (Mix 94.1)\/Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love previously programmed KWYL (Wild 102.9) &amp; KNEV\/Reno, NV, and was APD\/MD at CBS Radio Hot AC KSCF (Sophie@103.7)\/San Diego. Earlier stops include KMVQ\/San Francisco, KBBY\/Oxnard-Ventura,WKQI\/Detroit and WEZB (B97)\/New Orleans. Love got his radio start back in the day at the late, legendary KQHT (Hot 97.7)\/San Jose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J Love can now be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/ramp247.com\/programming\/pros-on-the-loose-j-love\/mailto:jloveb971@gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jloveb971@gmail.com<\/a> or 510-435-5807.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 RAMP has learned that J Love is now a free agent, as his position as Operations Manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-405643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}