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2021 JULY 12 CountryInsider.com | Sign Up For Daily Email Here Monument Hires Luke Jensen To Lead Promotion Team: Who Is This Guy? Monument Records’ Luke Jensen is not an ex-professional tennis player turned ESPN analyst. Nor is he a former Confederate soldier who now plies his trade as a bounty hunter. Instead, he’s a former radio guy with almost 20 years of experience as a programmer and on-air host to go with a decade as a promotion man. Now, he’s Monument’s VP of promotion, succeeding Drew Bland. Having the same name as tennis player Luke Jensen helped him meet Dave Matthews once, though. And he has the cover art of Western writer William W. Johnstone’s “Luke Jensen Bounty Hunter” novel hanging in his bathroom. (Continued on page 4) COUNTRY INSIDER TOP 5: Country Music Association Announces “CMA Summer Jam,” A New Concert Event and TV Special. Building The Buzz: KIIM Tucson’s Buzz Jackson Reflects On His Hall Of Fame Career. WPOC Baltimore Morning Host Laurie DeYoung Nominated For 2021 Radio Hall Of Fame. Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Luke Combs Lead Lineup For Stagecoach 2022. Chris Young And Kane Brown’s “Famous Friends” Holds Mediabase’s No. 1 Spot A Second Week. 1 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com Kia Becht Hoss Michaels Music Director Middays K102 / KEEY My Top 5 Country Kat 103.7 / KXKT My Top 5 Carrie Minneapolis, MN Bands Of All Time: Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA Underwood Songs : 1. Alabama 1. Some Hearts 2. McBride & The Ride 2. Something in the 3. Diamond Rio Water 3. All-American Girl 4. Zac Brown Band 4. We’re Young 5. Sons of the Desert and Beautiful 5. Blown Away CMA Readies “Summer Jam” Concert Event, TV Special. The summer of 2021 may not have seen a CMA Fest, but it will get a “CMA Summer Jam,” a two-night concert event that will be filmed for a three-hour special on ABC later this summer. The concerts take place Tuesday, July 27, and Wednesday, July 28, at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater. First-night performers include Luke Bryan, Mickey Guyton, Carly Pearce, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, Cole Swindell, Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson and Dwight Yoakam. Jimmie Allen, Gabby Barrett, Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Luke Combs, Florida Georgia Line, Miranda Lambert, Jon Pardi and Thomas Rhett will perform on the second night. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday (10am CT). 2021 Radio Hall Of Fame Nominees Include WPOC’s Laurie De Young. Laurie De Young, the longtime morning host for iHeartMedia WPOC-FM Baltimore (93.1), is among the nominees for the 2021 Radio Hall Of Fame. De Young, who joined WPOC in 1985, contends in the Active Local/Regional category. Twenty-four people and shows in six categories were chosen by the RHOF Nominating Committee, with input from the radio industry and listeners. Voting for inductees begins today. The 2021 Radio Hall of Fame inductees will be announced Monday, Aug. 16, and honored in-person at the 2021 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony Oct. 28 at Chicago’s Wintrust Grand Banking Hall. Hurricane Sally Relief Efforts Net WYCT Pensacola NAB Service Award. ADX Communications “Cat Country 98.7” WYCT Pensacola, FL’s relief efforts after Hurricane Sally in 2020 earned the station a 2021 Celebration of Service to America Award from the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation. The station’s “Mission Restore Hope” campaign raised $300,000 in partnership with United Way of West Florida and TV partner WEAR-TV for local organization funding rebuilding efforts. Stagecoach 2022 Lineup Has Suprises To Go With Its Country Superstars. R&B great Smokey Robinson and rock group The Black Crowes are on the bill for next year’s Stagecoach, set for Friday, April 29-Sunday, May 1, 2022. Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Luke Combs headline the lineup, headline the show, says event organizer Goldenvoice. Rhett and Underwood were scheduled headliners for Stagecoach 2020, an early pandemic casualty. Other acts slated for the Indio, CA, festival include Jimmie Allen, Lee Brice, Brothers Osborne, Midland and Maren Morris. 3 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com Meet Monument’s Luke Jensen. (Continued from page 1) Jensen joins the Monument team after five years as the promotion director’s number. He called her, a regional promotion manager for Arista Nashville, and, the next thing he knew, he had an internship. where he worked with artists like Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood. Arista initially helped promote “Shortly thereafter, my country music life started,” Monument releases he says, “because of that song.” after Jason Owen Like many teenagers starting in radio, Jensen liked and Shane McAnally to hang around the radio station, hoping for his big revived Monument in break. collaboration with Sony Music Entertainment. “I missed my prom to “We were always so impressed by how Luke hang out at the radio motivated the rest of the team and believed in station,” he says. “I missed what we were doing,” McAnally says. homecoming to hang out at the radio station.” Jensen calls co-president Owen and McAnally and He was at the station GM Katie McCartney, to whom he now reports, as the Friday the overnight “three of the brightest young minds in this town. host called out. Jensen “They all have very different skill sets, with Shane still remembers the first being a writer, Jason with his management and song he played: Trisha television background, and Katie with marketing. If Yearwood’s “Better Your I want to grow and learn more about this business, Heart Than Mine.” I need to surround myself with people who can Jensen considers Mike Kennedy, who programmed teach me more. I don’t know if there’s a better trio KBEQ for years and now is PD across town at of people at any operation in Nashville that can Audacy “106.5 The Wolf” WDAF, an early mentor. teach me what they can.” “Mike was the first program director I worked for Jensen grew up in central Kansas, moving to at Q104,” Jensen says. “It all weaves back to him Overland Park in the Kansas City area in time to multiple times.” After Jensen got his start at KBEQ, attend high school, where he befriended a young Kennedy hired him to do the night shift at KXBZ Jason Sudeikis. Manhattan, KS, which he owned. From there, “We went to the same school freshman and Jensen graduated to KZKX Lincoln, NE, where he sophomore year — Rockhurst High School,” Jensen hosted afternoons and served as MD. “Then Mike says. “We were both the smart-asses.” called again,” he says. That means he’s really looking forward to next “For a brief time, Mike, his wife and I did the week’s second-season premiere of “Ted Lasso.” morning show on Top 40 KMXV in Kansas City. “Jason is just a genius in my opinion, and it is still Then we all went back to country and I joined Mike surreal every time I see him on TV,” Jensen says. again to do the overnight shift at Q104, and then [moved] to nights. That was my second run with Not long after he and Sudeikis had their first Mike. I moved to WSOC classes together, Jensen in Charlotte to do the had a life-altering moment: afternoon show. I was While driving along the there for four years until Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mike called again. Then I he heard Garth Brooks’ went back to Kansas City “Rodeo” on the radio. and did the morning show and program director on A few days later, he the hot AC station, “Star 102,” for two years. Then I spotted “Q104” KBEQ’s jumped back into country at KVOO Tulsa as the PD mobile studio at a remote, for four years before I got into records.” introduced himself to the station engineer and got (Continued on page 7) 4 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com How KIIM’s Buzz Jackson Built A Buzz-Worthy Career In Tucson. Buzz Jackson’s work outside of Cumulus Media KIIM Jackson grew up listening to WNBC in Long Island, NY, Tucson, AZ (99.5) may have helped earn him a spot in and spent many late nights tuning into AM stations in the Country Radio Hall of Fame as much as his work Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston and Washington, DC. He inside the station. knew by age 5 that he wanted a radio career. That’s because the longtime KIIM PD/afternoon host “We would go on vacation and I would make my mom embodies the importance of an on-air personality’s take me to the local radio station to see if I could community involvement. bamboozle myself into a tour,” he says. “The magic has always been the theater-of-the-mind aspect, where “I made it a mission early on to be involved in the you can create pictures in people’s heads and have a community as much as I could, to make myself the one-on-one relationship through a microphone.” face of the radio station, at least in the afternoons,” Jackson tells Country Insider. Jackson earned a degree in radio, TV and film at Syracuse University, spending every possible hour in “The radio station has always been its radio station as Jam Master Andy. more than what comes out of the He landed a weekend overnights spot speaker. It is a living, breathing at Top 40 WOVV West Palm Beach, FL, organism. The music you play brings then secured his first full-time gig with the audience in, but there is more to Top 40 WTHZ Tallahassee, FL, staying it than just the music.

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