{"id":288559,"date":"2026-09-18T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288559\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:50:08","slug":"eries-mike-sheffield-expands-into-buffalo-ramp-radio-and-music-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288559\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie\u2019s Mike Sheffield Expands Into Buffalo \u2013 RAMP \u2013 Radio and Music Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"268\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Sheffield-Mike-web.jpg\" data- class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64315 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Sheffield-Mike-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"268\"  \/>\u2022 Congrats to Mike Sheffield, Programming Operations Manager for Cumulus Media\u2019s Erie, PA group, who has been awarded bonus Program Director stripes for Classic Rock duo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.97rock.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WGRF (97 Rock)\/Buffalo, NY<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.z1023online.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WQHZ (Z102.3)\/Erie, PA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sheffield, a 20-year Cumulus veteran, will continue to program his three current Erie stations \u2014 Country WXTA (Erie Country 97.9), AC WXKC (Classy 100), and Urban AC 104.3 The Touch (WXKC-HD2).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RVP Ron Giovanniello commented, \u201cMike\u2019s promotion is a true testament to his focus, hard work, problem-solving mindset, and dedication to our team\u2019s shared goals. Mike is very deserving and we are always thrilled to be able to promote from within. A promotion just doesn\u2019t reward past success, but it also unlocks new potential, and we are excited for Mike\u2019s contributions in his new role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sheffield remarked, \u201cI\u2019m truly excited about this new opportunity and deeply honored to lead and work alongside such a talented team at the Mighty 97 Rock and Cumulus Buffalo, while expanding my programming role in Erie to include Z102.3. I look forward to building on these stations\u2019 strong legacies and contributing to their continued success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 Congrats to Mike Sheffield, Programming Operations Manager for Cumulus Media\u2019s Erie, PA group, who has been awarded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-288559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}