{"id":116108,"date":"2026-01-08T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116108\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:51:13","slug":"budget-cuts-hit-kzfm-corpus-christi-ramp-radio-and-music-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116108\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Cuts Hit KZFM\/Corpus Christi \u2013 RAMP \u2013 Radio and Music Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"\u2022 The new year brought unfortunate news to the halls of Malkan Interactive Communications in Corpus Christi, TX \u2014 specifically, KZFM (Hot Z95)<\/a>, the top rated heritage Rhythmic Top 40, which is lost most of its local on-air staff due to budget cuts within the company. OM\/Director of Programming Gino Flores alerts us to the departure of morning show co-host Lauren Indridson, longtime afternoon talent and local club DJ legend, Chris Fonseca, and Jon Bell, a.k.a. Bigg Bell Da Kidd, who worked part-time\/weekends and emceed many live events for the station.<\/p>\n

Indridson (left) debuted just one year ago and became an instant fan favorite. She also appears as a sideline reporter on many NCAA Men\u2019s basketball games via ESPN+ working for the Southland Conference. She can be reached at laurenindridson@gmail.com<\/a>. Chris Fonseca (center) can be contacted at z95djchris@gmail.com<\/a>, and you can find Jon Bell (right) at bbdk36100@yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back at the ranch, Flores is now rolling solo as host of Gino\u2019s Neighborhood from 6-10am; followed by the Skyview-syndicated Dana Cortez Show in middays. YEA Media Group\u2019s Tino Cochino Radio, which has aired in nights on KZFM since 2017 moves up to afternoon drive, followed by the Premiere-syndicated Bootleg Kevfrom 6-10pm. Benztown\u2019s Slow Jamz with R Dub! remains in place from 10pm-midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 The new year brought unfortunate news to the halls of Malkan Interactive Communications in Corpus Christi, TX…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-116108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}