The Hardy Boys: Big Loud's Hardy (l) with iHeartMedia's "Wayne D" Danielson.
Mr. BIG: Big Machine's Cole Goodwin (l) with WPGB/Pittsburgh's Mike Kasper at the station's Next BIG Thing.
Signage: Singer/songwriter Karleigh Schmidt (c) signs with Big Loud Texas Publishing. Pictured with (l-r) BLTP's Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Lizzy Rector and Brendon Anthony.
Signage: Scottish-born singer/songwriter Chris Andreucci signs with Lady Luck Songs/Losers Publishing and Cypress MGMT. Pictured (l-r) are LLS' Cliff Audretch, Cypress' Jensen Gahagan Sessums, Andreucci and LLS' Kim Penz and Bob Squance.
Cold Beer & New Country Music: Leo33's Zach Top (c) with the label's Katie Dean and WKHX's Mike Moore in Atlanta.
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 (
