99X at 98.9 becomes 98.9/The Bone, grabs Project 9-6-1’s active rock mantle
99X at 98.9, owned by Atlanta-based Cumulus Media, is grabbing the active rock mantle from Project 9-6-1, which switched to top 40 Wednesday evening. “We are the saviors of rock,” proclaimed John Dickey , head of Cumulus programming. “We ran Clear Channel out of format. We are going to save rock for all Atlantans.” He noted that they picked up the Regular Guys after 96rock dumped them. “Clear Channel tried to kill off rock. We’re going to save it.” Atlanta-based Cumulus, the second largest radio company in the country behind Clear Channel, has reserved 989thebone.com ,which is just… >>
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