Dame's Patterson: Summit WCYQ/Knoxville afternoon co-host/Promo Coord. Carina Patterson has added Dir./Promotions duties for the four-station cluster. She succeeds “Bruce Patrick” Thiem, who exited after more than eight years in November (CAT 11/10/21). Patterson joined the cluster in Jan. 2012 as a Sales Asst. before starting on-air in 2014. She was named morning co-host alongside Opie Joe in 2018 (CAT 3/19/18) before the duo segued to afternoons amid a station rebranding the following year (CAT 9/20/19). Patterson retains all on-air duties, including voicetracking work for Summit stations outside the market. Reach her here.