{"id":198891,"date":"2026-03-20T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198891\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:31:08","slug":"iheartmedia-jacksonville-taps-casey-carter-as-wqik-pd-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198891\/","title":{"rendered":"iHeartMedia Jacksonville Taps Casey Carter As WQIK PD. | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Carter has been named Program Director of iHeartMedia &#8220;Country 99.1&#8221; WQIK Jacksonville, FL, effective immediately. She reports to Rick Everett, Senior Vice President of Programming for iHeartMedia Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>Carter has been with iHeart since 2012 and will add the Jacksonville market to her duties while remaining Program Director at co-owned WNOE New Orleans (101.1).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My first ever PD job was at the old Rooster [WROO] in Jacksonville, and I am so very excited to be working with this market once again,&#8221; Carter said in a release. &#8220;To take the reins at the legendary WQIK is beyond a dream come true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heath West has been named afternoon host at WQIK. West joins from iHeart &#8220;Wave 92.7&#8221; WAVE Ft. Pierce, FL, where he has served as PD since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a Florida native, the WQIK call letters are legendary and I am honored to take on the afternoon show on one of iHeart&#8217;s premiere country brands,&#8221; West said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casey Carter has been named Program Director of iHeartMedia &#8220;Country 99.1&#8221; WQIK Jacksonville, FL, effective immediately. She reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,115],"class_list":["post-198891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}