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Violette To Palm Springs, KDES
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You Dropped The Palm On Me: Radio vet Todd Violette has been named OM for Connoisseur/Palm Springs, CA's eight stations and PD for Country KDES. He succeeds Dax Davis, who joined the company's San Antonio market as DOS last month. Violette's prior stops include 10 years with iHeartMedia in Indianapolis and St. Louis. In Nielsen's Spring diary ratings, KDES earned a 1.8 share (11t) in Palm Springs behind format leader KPLM's 5.2 (5).

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