McCloudy Days: 
Former iHeartMedia/Bakersfield SVP/Programming Kenn McCloud has joined Owens One's crosstown KUZZ AM & FM for weekends/swing. The move reunites him with KUZZ PD Brent Michaels, with whom he worked at iHeartMedia from 2001-07. McCloud left the company after 15 years in an April staff reduction; reach him here.
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