Heart Like A Buck: Broken Bow's Lainey Wilson with SiriusXM/Pandora's Johnny Chiang.
Give Heaven Some Honors: CRB/CRS' RJ Curtis, Broken Bow's Frank Ray, MCA's Parker McCollum, Big Loud's Hardy and CRB/CRS' Kurt Johnson (l-r) at CRS Honors.
All My Flexes: Kickin' Kountry 101's Shannon Steele with Warner/WAR's Chase Matthew and Big Loud's Lauren Alaina at CRS.
Like I Love Country Radio Seminar: RCA's Kane Brown with WWWF/Nassau-Suffolk's Kelly Ford at CRS.
Signage: Singer/songwriter Lucas Ball signs with Twelve6 Entertainment. Pictured (l-r) are Twelve6’s Brooke Pauley and Travis Myatt, Ball, attorney Rachel Guttmann and Twelve6’s Willow Belenski.
She's Country ... Radio Seminar: Broken Bow's Jason Aldean (c) celebrates 31 No. 1s with the label's Jon Loba (l) and labelmate Blake Shelton last night (3/19) at the label's CRS event. Performers included Alabama, Travis Tritt and – together for the first time in four years – Florida Georgia Line.
Suite & Greet: Red Street's Walker Montgomery and Taylor Austin Dye with radio partners at the label's suite.
Live, Laugh, Lounge: Warner Records/WRN's Warren Zeiders (c) with Audacy’s Scott Roddy (l) and Tim Roberts at CRS.
Long Live Country Radio Seminar: Triple Tigers' Shane Profitt (l) with KSSN/Little Rock's Jess Jennings and the label's Kevin Herring at CRS.
Whadya Say: Country Radio Hall of Fame inductee Marci Braun casually gets her name up on Wrigley Field.
Diaz Named Hey Now VP/Promo
Former Big Machine National Dir./Promotion & Marketing Brooke Diaz has joined the recently announced Hey Now Records as VP/Promotion. Additionally, former Big Machine Sr. Dir./West Coast Promotion & National Strategy Bill Lubitz and Dir./Promotion & Marketing/Midwest Jane Staszak have been named National Dirs. for the West and East Coasts, respectively, and former BMLG Sr. Mgr./Streaming Anna Scott Welch has joined as Dir./Streaming. “Brooke is the most passionate person I know when it comes to this business,” says Pres./Co-Founder Kris Lamb. “Her unmatched work ethic sets a level of intensity that inspires everyone around her." Hey Now launched last week (CAT 3/17). Reach Diaz here, Lubitz here, Staszak here and Welch here.
The newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame are: in the Modern Era Artist category, Tim McGraw; in the Veterans Era Artist category, The Stanley Brothers; and in the Songwriter category, Paul Overstreet. Details regarding induction at the annual Medallion Ceremony will be forthcoming.
