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Cumulus Media (NASDAQ: CMLS) announced that it has promoted three longtime Cumulus Syracuse radio-programming professionals to expanded roles within the company’s four-station group. Cumulus elevated RICK ROBERTS to program director and digital-content producer for heritage Top 40 station 93Q/WNTQ-FM. Roberts has been with 93Q for more than 25 years and began his career with the […]
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Cumulus Media (NASDAQ: CMLS) announced that it has promoted three longtime Cumulus Syracuse radio-programming professionals to expanded roles within the company’s four-station group. Cumulus elevated RICK ROBERTS to program director and digital-content producer for heritage Top 40 station 93Q/WNTQ-FM. Roberts has been with 93Q for more than 25 years and began his career with the station while still in high school. He has been music director and afternoon personality for 93Q since 2006 and assistant program director since 2018. Roberts will continue to host afternoons on 93Q and can be heard weekdays from 3-7 p.m.
Cumulus Syracuse also promoted JOE DETOMASO, who is program director, content production manager, and midday host for alternative-rock station 95X/WAQX-FM. Now, DeTomaso expands his purview as the new program director for sports/talk station, The Score 1260/WSKO-AM. DeTomaso joined 95X in 2003 and was named program director for the station in 2011.
Cumulus Media also promoted SCOTT DIXON, who is assistant program director and afternoon host for 95X, to content production captain for the company’s all-new streaming station, The SGNL (The Signal). He will bring the AAA format to Syracuse music fans at www.sgnlsyracuse.com. Dixon, who has been with Cumulus Syracuse for 11 years, will continue in his current 95X roles as he takes on his new responsibilities at The Signal.

CARLY RANDALL has been named director of operations for Syracuse University men’s lacrosse, which is led by head coach Gary Gait. A 2017 graduate of Syracuse, Randall returns to her alma mater after most recently serving as an administrative assistant for intercollegiate athletics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. She will assume all
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CARLY RANDALL has been named director of operations for Syracuse University men’s lacrosse, which is led by head coach Gary Gait. A 2017 graduate of Syracuse, Randall returns to her alma mater after most recently serving as an administrative assistant for intercollegiate athletics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. She will assume all operations duties for the Syracuse men’s lacrosse program, including player development, scheduling, and serve as a liaison to all support staff departments, including academics, compliance, and strength and conditioning. While at MIT, Randall was responsible for managing the calendars for the several members of the senior staff in the athletic department, including the associate athletic director/senior woman administrator. Additionally, Randall handled distributing information through the FrontRush technology platform, including compliance forms, roster updates, and assistant-coach onboarding for all teams. MIT was not Randall’s first stop in Beantown as she previously served as the director of lacrosse operations at Boston University (BU) for the men’s and women’s lacrosse programs. She helped manage team schedules, itineraries, travel accommodations, meals, facilities, and expense reports. Randall was also responsible for recruiting and supervising the daily duties of team managers and was a staff liaison to team parents, the BU men’s lacrosse advisory board and athletics administration. while with the Terriers. While earning a master’s degree from Wesleyan University in 2021, Randall served as a graduate assistant with the women’s lacrosse program. Handling daily operations responsibilities, Randall helped begin recruiting communication and visit coordination, while also handling coaching duties, academic support check-ins, social media, fundraising, emails, travel accommodations, meals, and budget. Randall was a member of the Wesleyan Athletic Department Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. Hailing from Rochester, Randall earning a bachelor’s degree in education with a minor in sociology at Syracuse University. While playing for Gait, then the women’s lacrosse head coach, Randall played in 22 games and was a perennial name on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.

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