Monday, January 08, 2007

Journal Hires Program Director for KEZO

Steve Brill was hired last week as the new program director at KEZO (92.3 FM).

Brill comes to Omaha from Rockford, Ill., where he served as operations manager for a pair of Cumulus Broadcasting-owned stations, WROK and WKGL.

"There's no one more qualified and who has produced a better winning track record with heritage rock stations," said Tom Land, director of radio programming for the Journal Broadcast Group. "Steve is a great addition to our Omaha team, and our group."

Brill replaces Lester St. James, who left the station in October. St. James told Radio and Records that it was an "amicable parting."

Jim Timm, KEZO's station manager, said Brill has a "stellar" track record of guiding stations to rating success.

"He's the perfect person to build on Z-92's heritage and dominance," Timm said.

Brill said he looks forward to working for Journal.

"I'm excited to take the programming chair at one of the few, dominant, heritage Rock stations in America," he said in a press release.

7 comments:

Omababe said...

More cowbell! :)

Anonymous said...

With his leadership, Z-92 can take huge steps forward, and go from "the station that 1987 forgot" to "the station that 1988 forgot." Or possibly 1989.

Anonymous said...

Maybe he'll tell the DJ's to stop playing Ozzie Ozbourne ALL THE DAMN TIME.

Anonymous said...

I'm willing to bet that he has a mullet and a Trans-Am.

Anonymous said...

Oh and don't forget to replay TnT on the PM drive in case someone didn't hear them in the morning on Z-92 or on 590 or on the overnight replay. Plus - I think Travis needs more air time...there isn't enough Travis on radio or TV.

Anonymous said...

The nice thing about Journal using Travis Justice, is that they can use him as EOE material for hiring the handicapped. How is he handicapped? Listen to him speak.

Anonymous said...

Are they trying to go for a more Active Rock sound? Omaha has no such format allthough the River may cover some non main stream and active rock their sound is more blended than an average active rock should be, not that is bad.