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Valerie Preactor Joins WBAL as Sports Anchor/Reporter

Preactor will provide weekday sports updates during the morning drive and report on the Baltimore Ravens, Orioles, and Navy Football.

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WBAL NewsRadio has a new Sports Anchor/Reporter as Valerie Preactor fills the position for the Baltimore-based radio station, per Radio Ink.

She brings plenty of experience in the sports industry, having served as a Sideline Reporter for ESPN+, Production Assistant for NBC Sports Washington, and her most recent position as the Programming Assistant for WIYY.

“It’s surreal,” said Preactor. “To be the new sports reporter for the radio stations I grew up listening to is really full circle.”

“I’m thrilled to be covering my hometown teams that I love so much already! I’m excited to get to work and have fun, while continuing to grow in the radio and sports broadcasting industry. Your Baltimore sports are in good hands!”

Preactor will provide weekday sports updates during the morning drive and report on the Baltimore Ravens, Orioles, and Navy Football.

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NJ 101.5 Program Director Anne Gress Departs

Gress has been let go as part of cost-cutting measures by the company.

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New Jersey 101.5 Director of Content Anne Gress has departed the Townsquare Media-owned station.

Barrett News Media has learned that the station’s top programming boss has been let go as part of cost-cutting measures by the company.

Gress began programming New Jersey 101.5 in January 2018 after 14 years of leading CBS Radio’s classic hits station WOGL in Philadelphia. In 2020, she added programming duties at station WPST, a CHR station.

Her other prior stops include urban formatted Power 99 and smooth jazz WJJZ in Philadelphia, and Q105 in Tampa, among others.

Under her leadership, New Jersey 101.5 finished the Trenton spring ratings period with a 7.9 share in the 6+ demographic, 2nd overall among all local stations. The dominant talk brand featuring Bill Spadea, Deminski and Doyle, and Dennis and Judi also delivered a 5.2 share in the Middlesex-Summerset-Union market.

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Carla Marion to Join WBAP’s Morning News

Carla Marion has recently been serving as a Communications and Media Specialist for the McKinney, TX Police Department.

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WBAP has announced that Carla Marion will join the station’s morning show in 2024.

In a post to X, the station announced that Marion will join longtime hosts Ernie Brown and Hal Jay in January.

Marion has a history in the Dallas radio market. She worked at all-news KRLD as a morning news anchor before being part of widespread CBS Radio layoffs in 2008 while on maternity leave. She subsequently joined WBAP as a news anchor and reporter in 2009 before departing the station in 2013.

She joins the Cumulus radio station after serving as a Communications and Media Specialist for the McKinney, TX Police Department.

In a post to Facebook, Marion shared that she was “extremely honored to have been asked to once again be part of this legendary team of broadcasters. I will absolutely miss everyone at the incredible McKinney Police Department who have been so supportive of me over these last six years. Y’all took a risk on hiring a civilian and I hope I represented you well. It was an honor to work among so many real life heroes.”

WBAP’s Morning News is heard from 5-9 AM each weekday morning on the Cumulus-owned station.

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Megyn Kelly: Fox News Might Never Recover From Reputation Hit

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Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly is set to co-moderate the fourth Republican presidential debate on NewsNation Wednesday. Ahead of the debate, Kelly has shared her opinions on credibility, and how Fox News has seen a hit in that department.

“That was a serious reputational wound that they took in connection with those [Dominion and Smartmatic false voter fraud] stories – up and down the line, in connection with all of those stories. They haven’t recovered from it,” Kelly told Semafor’s Max Tani. “Their audience isn’t what it used to be — in comparison to MSNBC and CNN, it’s fine. But their reputation in the industry hasn’t recovered. And I don’t know that it will.”

Kelly has been critical of her former employer in many aspects since she departed Fox News in 2017. She was a vocal critic of the network after it removed Tucker Carlson earlier this year.

As she prepares to moderate Wednesday’s event alongside NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas and Washington Free Beacon’s Eliana Johnson, Megyn Kelly was critical of moderators of the previous debate, especially NBC’s Kristen Welker.

“I know how to do it, and it’s frustrating for me to watch others do it and not have my own try at it,” she said. “They had this opportunity certainly at the last debate, and the one before that as well, but they just didn’t take it. Huge frustration of mine watching the earlier debates, especially the NBC one. This is not an interview. This is not a chance for Kristen Welker to ask a question of the candidate and hear whatever answers are interesting to her. No one cares. They can watch Meet the Press for that. We need to watch them debate each other so we can see what the differences are.”

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