{"id":285652,"date":"2025-11-11T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/285652\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:06:10","slug":"wrnr-adds-airstaff-as-it-comes-under-new-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/285652\/","title":{"rendered":"WRNR Adds Airstaff As It Comes Under New Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/935wrnr-200x200.jpeg\" alt=\"93.5 WRNR Annapolis Steve Kingston 810 WYRE\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-303019\"  \/>Cortona Media AAA \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wrnr.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">93.5 WRNR<\/a>\u201d 810 WYRE\/93.5 W228ER Annapolis MD is seeing a change in ownership and the launch of its airstaff.<\/p>\n<p>The brand, which <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/303017\/wrnr-stes-date-for-official-relaunch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">relaunched on FM<\/a> in June, following the sale of the former 103.1 WRNR-FM <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/244973\/peter-john-radio-fellowship-acquires-wrnr-fm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2022<\/a>, is seeing former lead owner Steve Kingston transfer his stake to partner Kirk Litton and Jay Stevens. Litton previously owned Midlands Media in Columbia SC. Stevens formerly served as SVP\/Programming Content for Radio One from 2007-18 preceded by sixteen years at CBS Radio as VP\/Programming overseeing WPGC Washington DC and other stations. Stevens commented, \u201c\u201cMy dream has always been to own a radio station and appreciate Kirk offering me this opportunity. I still believe in live and local radio, and now have my chance with the legendary, highly respected WRNR\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The station has also added its first two personalities to the new incarnation. \u2018Dave Z\u2019 Ziemer will host mornings from 7am to 12pm. Ziemer began his career as Commercial Production Director at Alternative 99.1 WHFS Annapolis before being one the producers at the launch of XM Satellite Radio in 2000 where he also programmed \u201cCinemagic\u201d and later served as Director of Comedy and Entertainment for SiriusXM. He later spent time at the original WRNR-FM.<\/p>\n<p>Neci Williams joins as afternoon host from 2-7pm. Neci worked at WHFS from 1983 until its demise in 2005 and then remained at CBS Radio Baltimore until 2022 where she held roles at multiple relaunches of the Alternative brand and hosted nights at Hot AC \u201cMix 106.5\u201d WWMX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cortona Media AAA \u201c93.5 WRNR\u201d 810 WYRE\/93.5 W228ER Annapolis MD is seeing a change in ownership and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-285652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}