{"id":560565,"date":"2026-04-02T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:17:12","slug":"crash-clark-rises-to-co-host-as-leslie-fram-departs-99xs-morning-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560565\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash Clark Rises To Co-Host As Leslie Fram Departs 99X\u2019s Morning X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/morningx-200x200-jpg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"The Morning X Steve Barnes Crash Clark Leslie Fram 99X WNNX Atlanta\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-345135\"  \/>A big change in mornings at Cumulus Media Classic Alternative \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.99xatl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">99X<\/a>\u201d 100.5 WNNX College Park\/Atlanta as station original Leslie Fram has departed the station and traffic reporter Crash Clark rises to co-host alongside Steve Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>Clark is on his fifth stint at the 99X brand starting in the original station\u2019s early days in 1990s. He would return full-time in February 2025 after spending eleven years as a traffic reporter and anchor at WXIA-TV Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>On the morning show\u2019s page, the station\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.99xatl.com\/the-morning-x\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website says<\/a>, \u201cOriginally founded in 1994 with a defining 10-year run on 99X, The Morning X returned in January 2023, reuniting original cast members Barnes and Leslie Fram. The reunion followed the historic comeback of The Original 99X itself just weeks prior. The team continues to evolve. Jimmy Baron occasionally joins in a recurring role, and as of February 2025, Crash Clark returned to provide full-time, real-time traffic. Following the exit of Leslie Fram in March of 2026, the award-winning show is now The Morning X with Barnes &amp; Crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lesliefram-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Fram 99X WNNX CMT\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-282955\"  \/>Fram joined predecessor CHR \u201cPower 99\u201d WAPW as APD\/morning co-host in 1990 and was part of every incarnation of the station\u2019s morning show from the \u201c99X\u201d brand\u2019s original launch in October 1992 until its demise in January 2008. She rose to Program Director in 1997 through the end of the station. She joined the reconstituted \u201c99X\u201d on 100.5 <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/249206\/leslie-fram-returns-to-99x-to-co-host-mornings-with-steve-barnes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alongside her former co-host<\/a> Barnes in February 2023. She would then serve as PD of Emmis AAA 101.9 WRXP New York before spending thirteen years as Senior Vice President of Music Strategy at CMT through October 2024. Fram then launched consulting collective FEMco (Fram Entertainment &amp; Music) <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/299525\/leslie-fram-launches-femco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last April<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big change in mornings at Cumulus Media Classic Alternative \u201c99X\u201d 100.5 WNNX College Park\/Atlanta as station original&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-560565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560565","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=560565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}