Turner Sports has made Kristen Ledlow a full-time employee just a few weeks after she left 92.9/The Game.
"The offer was too incredible to pass up," she said. "I loved my time at 92.9/The Game. It was a huge opportunity and a great one. But I love the Turner family so much."
She had been hosting "NBA Inside Stuff" with Grant Hill, a weekly show on NBA TV. She will now also contribute to NBA Game Time shows and doing more interviews. She also plans to do some correspondence work for sister Turner stations CNN and HLN. "I'll get a chance to host more shows, which I feel my strong is my strong suit," she said. "And I'll get a chance to improve in areas I hadn't gotten as much to do such as sideline reporting."
Although she was with the Game for just a year, she enjoyed the exercise of morning hosting. The other hosts "helped me loosen up and have a fun time," she said. She worked a few months with Jason Bailey, who she said was very different from her. "We both learned a lot from each other," she said.
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Praise 102.5 listeners last Thursday raised about $250,000 for for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This is the seventh year the station has done this. Here are the counts over the years:
2008 - $323,351
2009 - $220,866
2010 - $285,415
2011 - $250,257
2012 - around $200,000
2013 - $224,971
2014 - $249,994
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WSB Radio has a new description for itself on air: News 95.5 and AM 750 WSB. Clearly, this is an effort to emphasize the news aspects of the station. And given that FM is now dominant over AM, FM gets first dibs.
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Now 104.7/The Fish has done a "Shake" video in advance of MercyMe's arrival at the Dogwood Festival this Friday at 7 p.m. for a free concert appearance.
The upbeat "Shake" is a top 10 Christian hit for MercyMe, who had a huge crossover hit in 2001 with "I Can Only Imagine."
The various Fish 104.7 personalities pop up in the video as well, including Kevin & Taylor, Parks Stamper and Beth Bacall.
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The Regular Guys on Rock 100.5 created a "bro" bracket of 64 "bro" friends for "Southside" Steve Rickman. Over the past two weeks, he has pared it down. His final two were former Falcon Brian Finneran and Jesse James Dupree of Jackyl. Who won? Dupree.
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