The Mockingbird And The Clone: Big Loud's Hardy (c) with Music Choice's Jim Murphy and ... Music Choice's Jim Murphy (the label's Nikki Wood) at his Halloween show in Nashville.
Little Pawn Shop Of Horrors: Brothers Osborne's John (l) and TJ Osborne (r) with SiriusXM The Highway's Cody Alan.
REDRUM Street: The Red Street team (Alex Valentine, Patrick Waters, Dottie Chamberlain, Jay DeMarcus, Sally Allgeier, Olivia Vardy, Cambria Sojka, Jason McArthur, Mike Craft, Tyrus Baynham, Lily Huseby and Chuck Butler, l-r) celebrate Halloween.
All My Hexes Live In Texas: Broken Bow's Frank Ray (in hat) plays "Third Row George Strait" for KKBQ/Houston's Travis Moon and Lauren "Lo" Sessions-Barker and the label's Dawn Ferris (l-r).
Dean's List: Blue Highway's Jackson Dean with WKHK's Carletta Blake, the label's Sally Green and guest Jen Yates (l-r) at The National in Richmond, VA.
Moore Than A Feeling: Cervidae/Sony's McCoy Moore visits WKDF/Nashville. Pictured (top, l-r) are the station's Erin Merimonti and Jesse James, Moore and the label's Ali O'Connell; (bottom) Moore with the station's Travis Daily.
BMG Layoffs Impact Nashville
BMG Layoffs: Realignment from the BMG/Concord merger has impacted several in Nashville, including BMG Publishing VP/Creative Chris Oglesby, Dir./Creative Services Patricia Wittmer, Mgr./A&R Catalog Faith Beller and Mgr./Creative Layne Faltinsky. Oglesby has 23 years with the company in two stints, Wittmer has 24 years of tenure, Beller eight and Faltinsky joined in 2024. The layoffs follow last month's changes to the BMG/BBR Music Group promotion team structure (Breaking News 9/17). Reach Oglesby here, Wittmer here, Beller here and Faltinsky here.
Smoky Mountain Reign: Former Top 40 WNOK/Columbia, SC & WWXM/Myrtle Beach PD Matt "Brodie" Lesley has been named Brand Mgr. for the four-station SummitMedia/Knoxville cluster including WCYQ, where he will do middays. Former WCYQ Brand Mgr./midday host Matt Cooper departed last week (
