iHeartCountry Club: Team Big Machine at the iHeartCountry Festival in Austin. Pictured (l-r) are Jimmy Harnen, Jay Cruze, Ryan Dokke, iHeart's Rod Phillips, Sandi Spika Borchetta and Scott Borchetta.
Take Me Home, Country Toads: Triple Tigers' Shane Profitt with the label's Julianna Vaughn and KSSN/Little Rock's Jess Jennings at the Toad Suck Daze Festival. Watch Profitt's game in the toad race 
Pen Pals: Leo33's Trey Pendley with KNCI/Sacramento, CA's Sonia Jimenez and Chad Rufer (top) and KKBQ/Houston's Travis Moon and Lauren "Lo" Sessions-Barker.
Don't Come Cookin': Blue Highway’s Jackson Dean plays WUSN/Chicago's Low Dough. Pictured (l-r) are the station's Austin Huff, Dean, the station's Marci Braun, WSCR's Leila Rahimi and WUSN's Melissa McGurren and Scotty Kay.
West Palm Beach Boys: Galaxy's LoCash play WIRK/West Palm Beach, FL's Secret Session. Pictured (l-r) are the station's Moriah Daniels, the duo's Chris Lucas, the station's Grover Collins and Tim Leary, the duo's Preston Brust and the station's Chelsea Taylor and Nick Rivers.
Madden 26: MCA's Madden Metcalf visits WWWF/Nassau-Suffolk. Pictured (l-r) are the station's Kelly Ford, Madden, the label's Annie Sandor and the station's Robby Bridges.
Former Black River SVP/Promotion Bill Macky has joined Quartz Hill Music Group (QHMG) as SVP/Promotion & Marketing, overseeing radio strategy for both the Quartz Hill Records and Stone Country Records artist rosters. "He’s worked with some of the best of the best in Nashville and has had great success at each step in his career," says QHMG President/Founder Benny Brown. "As our QHMG family continues to grow, Bill will be an important part of our efforts to help our artists achieve their dreams." Macky can be reached here.
Macky joined Black River as VPP in 2012, and rose to helm the department for the second time two years ago (Breaking News 3/14/2024). He and others from his team departed that label last month (Breaking News 4/13). Prior stops include Epic, Sony and MCA, which followed his 16 years in radio. Last week, Quartz Hill parted ways with promotion executives Will Robinson and April Rider (CAT 4/30).
