{"id":596174,"date":"2026-04-20T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/596174\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:24:23","slug":"shawn-knight-rises-to-whjx-assistant-director-of-branding-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/596174\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Knight Rises To WHJX Assistant Director of Branding &#038; Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shawnknight-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Knight Hot 106.5 WHJX Jacksonville On The Dial Is AI Slop\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-292835\"  \/>Cox Media Group has promoted Shawn Knight to Assistant Director of Branding &amp; Programming for Adult R&amp;B \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hot1065fm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hot 106.5<\/a>\u201d WHJX Ponte Vedra Beach\/Jacksonville FL.<\/p>\n<p>Knight joined the cluster <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/292831\/shawn-knight-joins-hot-106-5-jacksonville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in January 2025<\/a> as afternoon host at WHJX and has since added middays on Hip Hop \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.power1061.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Power 106.1<\/a>\u201d W291CI\/WJGL-HD2. Prior to his arrival in Jacksonville, Knight spent three years hosting mornings at Cumulus Media AC \u201cMajic 107.7\u201d KMAJ-FM Topeka KS and has held roles as APD\/afternoon host at Townsquare Media Adult R&amp;B \u201c107.3 Kiss-FM\u201d KISX Tyler TX and on-air at WKZJ Columbus GA, WPWX, WGCI, and WSRB Chicago, and WTLC and WTLC-FM Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Knight said, \u201cI am truly humbled by this opportunity to expand my expertise in programming for Cox Media Group and the city of Jacksonville. For the past year I have considered Duval County home, and I am looking forward to further serving my community. Thank you to Rob Babin, Bill Theil, Jimmy Farrell, Jules Riley, and Elroy Smith for entrusting me with this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cox Director of Urban Content and WHJX\/W291CI Director of Urban Programming Elroy Smith stated, \u201cThis opportunity truly feels tailor-made for Shawn. Watching Shawn Knight\u2019s growth at CMG Jacksonville has been incredible, and this next step is so well deserved. His energy, commitment, and genuine passion for business don\u2019t just stand out; they elevate everyone around him. I\u2019m excited to see the impact he\u2019ll continue to make in this new role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cox Media Group has promoted Shawn Knight to Assistant Director of Branding &amp; Programming for Adult R&amp;B \u201cHot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-596174","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\/596174","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=596174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}