Audacy's Roddy Rises: Audacy KWJJ/Portland, OR PD Scotty Roddy has been promoted to Regional VP/West Coast Country Programming, adding Brand Manager duties for KSON/San Diego. His purview grows to include oversight of WDAF/Kansas City, KMLE/Phoenix, KFRG/Riverside and KKWF/Seattle, in addition to KWJJ, which he will continue to program. In San Diego, he fills the vacancy created by the departure of Kevin Callahan (CAT 11/28).
"Scott has proven leadership skills with extensive experience growing some of our leading Country brands alongside our leadership team,” says VP/Country Format Tim Roberts. Adds Roddy, "The opportunity to learn from the best leaders in the format like JR Ammons, Heather Froglear, Brooks O'Brien and Drew Bland, while growing the Audacy west coast Country footprint is once in a career. My sincere gratitude to Tim Roberts, Kim Martinez, Michael Valenzuela, Doug Abernethy, Jeff Federman, Dave Richards and Jeff Sottolano." Roddy joined the company in 2019 and has prior stops in St. Louis, Seattle, Portland and Indianapolis; reach him here.