{"id":569780,"date":"2026-04-07T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569780\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:49:19","slug":"kabc-ksfo-program-director-luis-segura-heads-to-wmal-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569780\/","title":{"rendered":"KABC\/KSFO Program Director Luis Segura Heads To WMAL Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/luissegura-200x200-jpg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Luis Segura 105.9 WMAL Washington DC KABC KSFO\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-345515\"  \/>Luis Segura is moving from Los Angeles to Washington DC to serve as Operations Manager for Conservative Talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmal.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">105.9 WMAL-FM<\/a> Woodbridge VA.<\/p>\n<p>Segura has been based at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kabc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">790 KABC<\/a> Los Angeles since 2013 as Executive Producer. In November 2022 he added Program Director duties for 560 (now 810) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksfo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSFO<\/a> San Francisco and then added the PD duties for KABC in June 2023. Prior to KABC, Segura spent fifteen years as Executive Producer at CBS Radio Chicago mostly with the \u201cEddie &amp; JoBo Show\u201d at CHR \u201cB96\u201d WBBM-FM and later Classic Hits \u201cK-Hits 104.3\u201d WJMK.<\/p>\n<p>He takes the opening created by <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/327924\/bill-hess-to-retire-from-cumulus-washington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Hess\u2019 retirement<\/a> at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Segura stated, \u201cI\u2019m incredibly excited to work with the legendary staff of Cumulus\u2019 flagship News\/Talk. WMAL is packed with national names like Larry O\u2019Connor and Chris Plante, and I can\u2019t wait to join the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cumulus Chief Content Officer Brian Phillips said, \u201cAmong our strong field of Cumulus programmers, Luis leapt from the pack as the person possessing the energy and imagination to lead WMAL. Luis visualizes the multi-dimensional future of this big brand. The immense benefit of keeping Luis \u2018in house\u2019 is that he will continue to offer expert counsel to our revitalized operations in San Francisco and Los Angeles, as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cumulus Washington VP\/Market Manager Jeff Boden commented, \u201cWe\u2019re excited to have a programmer of Luis\u2019 caliber to take WMAL forward. As an added bonus, he\u2019s spent more than a decade with Cumulus, and I am sure he will hit the ground running.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luis Segura is moving from Los Angeles to Washington DC to serve as Operations Manager for Conservative Talk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-569780","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\/569780","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=569780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}