{"id":588320,"date":"2026-04-16T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/588320\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:38:09","slug":"david-simpson-joins-webe-1080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/588320\/","title":{"rendered":"David Simpson Joins WEBE 1080"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/davidsimpson-133x200-jpg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"David Simpson Lite 100.5 WRCH Hartford WEBE 108 107.9 Westport\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-346759\"  \/>Just <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/344861\/cuts-ongoing-at-audacy-is-iheart-next\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weeks after exiting<\/a> Audacy AC \u201cLite 100.5\u201d WRCH Hartford after three decades with the cluster, David Simpson has joined Connoisseur Media AC \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webe108.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WEBE 108<\/a>\u201d 107.9 WEBE Westport CT for weekends.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure at Audacy Hartford, Simpson was also APD\/MD at Hot AC 96.5 WTIC-FM and Hip Hop \u201cHot 93.7\u201d WZMX and hosted weekends at WBMX Boston and WCBS-FM New York. He also had a long run at CHR WPRO-FM Providence rising to Program Director, served as a music researcher for Zapoleon Media Strategies, and has held on-air positions at WKSS Hartford and WPLJ New York. <\/p>\n<p>He commented, \u201c\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to getting back on the air with the powerful WEBE 108 signal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Program Director Robby Bridges added, \u201cDavid and I share time at WPLJ and PRO-FM, so this is a full-circle moment. I\u2019m thrilled to have him join the team at WEBE 108 \u2014 he\u2019s a perfect fit for the station and our audience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just weeks after exiting Audacy AC \u201cLite 100.5\u201d WRCH Hartford after three decades with the cluster, David Simpson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-588320","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\/588320","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=588320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}