By RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed Friday, September 11, 2015
Remember former long-time Atlanta country morning host Rhubarb Jones?
He is now director of special events at Kennesaw State University, psyched about the new football team. But he still loves radio, something he did for more than four decades until country station Eagle 106.7 shut its doors in early 2008.
So when he was approached by his hometown station 98.9/WWGA-FM (classic hits) in Talapoosa to do a mid-day shift (voicetracked), he couldn't resist the opportunity. He said he spends 45 minutes a day from his house taping his four hours heard daily from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays.
"I'm just doing this for fun," said Jones, who was in Atlanta radio for 23 years. "I get to play music I used to play before I started country, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s."
The station covers areas west of Atlanta, where country legends station Nash ICON can be heard at 98.9. You can listen from anywhere on Tunein.com or the equivalent app, Jones said, although when I tried, it said there are no "playable streams."
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Former NewsRadio 106.7 reporter Ninette Sosa has landed a new reporting job in Cape Cod, Mass at Newsradio 95WXTK. (It's a job Pete Combs turned down for a gig in Seattle.) She worked at 106.7 for more than three years after a long stint at the now defunct CNN Radio.
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CNN chief Jeff Zucker faced some criticism from CNN producers for obsessing over Donald Trump, according to the Wrap.
"We are not perfect,” Zucker said at a network town hall Thursday, defending more Trump coverage over airing a scheduled 10th anniversary special hosted by Anderson Cooper. (That special ended up airing later.)
Trump sure isn't going away. He'll be featured front and center at the next presidential debate, to air on CNN Wednesday night.
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Mike Dreaden, news director at Channel 2 Action News since 2012, has been promoted to vice president of news & marketing for all of TV, taking over for a former WSB news director Marian Pittman. Pittman becomes executive vice president of digital strategy & research. She takes that role from Neil Johnston, who is now chief financial officer at Cox Automotive.
The news director job has not been immediately filled.
Channel 2 and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are both part of Cox Media Group.
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