Dana Point: Audacy KSON/San Diego & KFRG/Riverside Dir./Promotions & KFRG weekend personality Dana Johnson will depart the company at the end of the year to co-host mornings with incumbent Dan Zuko at iHeartMedia WCOL/Columbus, OH, where she already resides with her family. She is already on the job, and will hold both positions until Dec. 31. Zuko's former co-host, Kayla Hanley, departed in August (CAT 8/3). Johnson (then Dana Swearingen) started her career with KFRG in 2007 before joining nationally syndicated The Big Time With Whitney Allen in 2016. She returned to KFRG in 2019, was named to her most recent post in May of that year and added KSON to her KFRG duties in 2021 (CAT 7/27/21). See her departure announcement here. Reach Johnson here through the end of the year. No word yet on plans for a successor at Audacy.

Brussels Sproet: Former KKBQ/Houston midday host Gerardo Sproet has joined Whitehead KTTX/Brenham-Bryan, TX for afternoons, effective today (10/12). Sproet joined KKBQ in promotions in 2019, moving to nights in 2023, then middays last year before departing in April (CAT 4/17). He succeeds David Bugenske, who arrived at KTTX for afternoons last year (CAT 9/19/25), and recently resigned. Reach Bugenske here.

Gig Alert: Connoisseur WFLS/Fredericksburg, VA OM/morning host Ian Rambo is seeking an "energetic, creative and engaging" co-host in the wake of Grayson Williams' recent departure from full-time radio (CAT 9/29). This position will also cover the midday shift on Top 40 sister WVBX, which is mostly voicetracked. The job requires two to three years of on-air radio or equivalent professional broadcasting experience. Find the job posting and apply here.

Tour Support: Kameron Marlowe's 12-city Take You Down With Me Tour kicks off Feb. 4 in Chattanooga with subsequent stops in Cincinnati, Atlanta, Raleigh, Orlando and more. Tickets go on sale Friday (10/16) here.

Gavin Adcock has extended his The Day I Hang It Up 2027 Tour featuring Blake Whiten with a second leg beginning April 1 in Lexington, KY; tickets here Friday (10/16).

Chronicle: Industry veteran "Kim Leslie" Brosche died Oct. 9 at the age of 64 following a battle with Lewy body dementia. Her radio career took her to Metro Traffic Control, WMZQ/Washington, DC, and Nashville stations WSM-FM, WKDF (serving as MD/afternoon host at both) and AC WJXA, where she co-hosted mornings for more than a decade. She also worked at Asylum Records, the CMA, Sirius' Prime Country, syndicated radio show Country Live Tonight and her own Music Row Media Training. Leslie served on the CRB board for nearly a decade, where she helped create the organization's Tom Rivers Humanitarian Award. Services will be announced at a later date. Memorial donations can be made to the Lewy Body Dementia Association here.

Radio and record company vet Gary Greenberg passed away Friday (10/9) at his Los Angeles home. Among his radio stops were Top 40 KTNQ/Los Angeles and Country KHJ-AM/Los Angeles. His long-tenured promotion career included time with Warner Bros., Giant, Black River, Equity and Tenacity. No word on services.

Country Aircheck Top 5: Here are the Top 5 songs for the week ending Oct. 10, according to Mediabase.

1. JOHN MORGAN/Kid Myself (Night Train/Broken Bow) 
2. MORGAN WALLEN/Been By Now (Big Loud) 
3. ELLA LANGLEY/Loving Life Again (Sawgod/Col. NY/Triple Tigers) 
4. LAUREN ALAINA f/CHASE MATTHEW/All My Exes (Big Loud) 
5. ZACH JOHN KING/Get To Drinkin' (SMN) 

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers: Here are the top point gainers for Oct. 11, compared with the same day last week, according to Mediabase.  

1. LAUREN ALAINA f/CHASE MATTHEW/All My Exes (Big Loud) +1046 points
2. TUCKER WETMORE/Who Told You That (Back Blocks/Mercury) +281 points
3. COREY KENT/Empty Words (Combustion/RCA) +271 points
4. LUKE COMBS/Rethink Some Things (Columbia) +263 points
5. KENNY CHESNEY/Remember Me That Way (Hey Now) +260 points

Tomorrow's Birthdays (10/13): Rhett Akins, Lacy J. Dalton, Marie Osmond, John Wiggins, Jesse Addy, Julie Piat, Wayland Stubblefield, Rich Rizzo, Jennifer Switzer, Joe Zanger.

Barrel Boys: Enchntmnt/Warner Records' Blake Whiten and Warner's Slater Nalley at the Barrelhouse Ballroom in Chattanooga. Pictured (l-r) are WUSY's Greg "StyckMan" Owens, Whiten, WUSY's Justin Cole, Nalley and the label's James Marsh.