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What She's Doing Now: Pearl Records has added three promotion staffers as Garth Brooks' and Trisha Yearwood's VP/Radio Promotion & Marketing Strategy Mandy McCormack is promoted to the label's SVP/Radio Promotion, Marketing & Artist Strategy. In2une Mgr./Regional Promotion Nathan Cruise and former Red Bow/Stoney Creek Dir./Northeast Promotion Hilary Hoover are already on board, with Reviver Southwest Regional Glenn Noblit joining Monday (10/3). All are Director/Regional Promotion; regions are not yet specified. "They bring a wealth of experience, a great passion for the music and incredible respect from the radio community to this team," says Lesly Simon, who came on as GM a little more than a week ago (Breaking News 9/20). Cruise's background includes Curb, Show Dog, WAR, Stroudavarious, Universal South and Arista; Noblit's past stops include Warner Bros., Lost Highway, AristoMedia and Webster & Assoc.; Hoover's promotion background was spent entirely at Broken Bow Music Group. Reach Cruise here, Noblit here and Hoover here. The In2une position will be posted soon; no word on plans at Reviver. Hoover's position was filled, as reported Tuesday (CAT 9/27).

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